Somebody like to 'splain Update 1?

[tony@aplawrence.com]

This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.

Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?

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[Stuart J. Browne]

<tony@aplawrence.com> wrote in message news:bgpcv5$9j3$1@pcls4.std.com...

> This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.
>
> Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
> extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?

I was wondering the same thing myself. Given the 'brand -L | grep a120'
thing to see if it was installed, I figured it was an extra feature on the
base 5.0.7 that needed to be bought.

Is there anything in the price lists regarding it? I've not seen it.

What is this update thing anyway?

bkx

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Tony Lawrence typed (on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:00:53PM +0000):
| This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.
|
| Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
| extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?
|

SCO Update is provided by its own license, for $$. If you have SCO
Update, you will get all the features added to 5.0.7 until it eventually
turns into 5.0.8.


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[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Stuart J. Browne typed (on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:27:05AM +1000):
| <tony@aplawrence.com> wrote in message news:bgpcv5$9j3$1@pcls4.std.com...
| > This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.
| >
| > Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
| > extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?
|
| I was wondering the same thing myself. Given the 'brand -L | grep a120'
| thing to see if it was installed, I figured it was an extra feature on the
| base 5.0.7 that needed to be bought.
|
| Is there anything in the price lists regarding it? I've not seen it.
|
| What is this update thing anyway?

[url]http://www.sco.com/services/upgrade/scoupdate/[/url]
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JP

[Bob Bailin]

<tony@aplawrence.com> wrote in message news:bgpcv5$9j3$1@pcls4.std.com...

> This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.
>
> Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
> extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?

The SUS Enabler license is *only* a license; no software is installed.
It *must* be registered with SCO to enable it, at which time another
license is installed on your system to actually enable the service.

Update 1 is *not* necessary.

Update 1 is new features, mostly new shells and a new wd driver
that supports disks > 137GB. (The wd driver will also be available
from the SCO ftp site at no charge.)

See the 507up1 release notes for full details.

[Tom Melvin]

Bob Bailin made comment on Wed Aug 6 12:07:52 2003 :

>
> <tony@aplawrence.com> wrote in message news:bgpcv5$9j3$1@pcls4.std.com...

> > This update 1 requires the SCO Update Service (SUS) Enabler license.
> >
> > Is this something you are supposed to have with 5.0.7? Is it
> > extra cost? Is update 1 necessary or simply extra features?

>
> The SUS Enabler license is *only* a license; no software is installed.
> It *must* be registered with SCO to enable it, at which time another
> license is installed on your system to actually enable the service.
>
> Update 1 is *not* necessary.
>
> Update 1 is new features, mostly new shells and a new wd driver
> that supports disks > 137GB. (The wd driver will also be available
> from the SCO ftp site at no charge.)
>
> See the 507up1 release notes for full details.

The hyperThreading support added in Update 1 is really nice.

It converts your P4/Xeon into a Dual Processor - you do NOT need an
SMP licence for a SINGLE cpu. If you already have a dual P4/Xeon it
gives you a quad.

Tom


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