Apart from setting its sails to reach further into enterprise waters and tackling some of the concerns observers have with its apparent lack of OEM experience, Santa Cruz Operation Inc says that a chief motivation for its still under-the-hood pact with Computer Associates International Inc is the fact that both AT&T Corp’s Unix System Laboratories and Novell Inc failed miserably when it came to systems management. The resulting CA-Unicenter-SCO OpenServer package, which both companies will sell, will not relegate CA-Unicenter to the status of an application that runs under OpenView or SunNet Manager: it will be a front-line item.
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