The SCO Group and BASIS International Collaborate to Upgrade Mutual Customers

LINDON, Utah, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today announced that the company has entered into a joint marketing promotion with BASIS International Ltd. The promotion, which runs through December 31, 2004, will provide the companies' mutual customers with discounts of up to 40 percent on upgrades to SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 and BASIS International's BBj 4.02 or PRO/5 5.0 product. In addition, customers will obtain the upgrade to the upcoming releases of Legend, the next release of SCO OpenServer, through SCO Update, and the next release of BASIS International's BBj and PRO/5.

"This is an excellent way for customers to obtain the latest technologies from our two companies today with the assurance that they will also receive upgrades to the technologies of tomorrow as well," said Nico Spence, Chief Marketing Officer for BASIS International Ltd. SCO will showcase these joint solutions with BASIS in booth F at TechCon2004, BASIS' annual conference, taking place in New Orleans, November 15-16.

"This promotion from SCO and BASIS provides a tremendous value to our respective customers," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager, SCO UNIX division. "Any customers that deploy BASIS products in a SCO OpenServer environment will quickly realize the benefits of upgrading their environment now to stay current with the latest offerings from our companies. We look forward to providing these same customers with Legend, the next release of OpenServer, early in 2005."

SCO OpenServer is one of the most secure and reliable UNIX operating systems for the Intel and AMD platforms. BASIS' PRO/5 and BBj, the latest version of BBx, gives SCO OpenServer customers the ability to deploy the new BASIS DBMS encryption features and develop applications with the new BASIS IDE, an enhanced NetBeans integrated development environment for robust application development.

Customers interested in participating in this promotion should call 1-800-423-1394 or e-mail sales@basis.com. About The SCO Group

The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses with UNIX business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com.

SCO, SCO OpenServer and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. About BASIS International, Ltd.

For over 19 years, BASIS has provided thousands of software application developers advanced cross-platform tools to create leading business applications that are reliable, scalable and cost effective. BASIS technology forms the foundation of thousands of mission-critical systems across industries and serves more than 1.7 million end users worldwide. Just a few of the companies running on BASIS include BMW, Carrefour Hypermarkets, Chase Bankruptcy Information Systems, Citicorp, Perot Systems, Toyota, and Tesco Hypermarkets.

BBj 4.02 is available on SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris Intel and Sun Solaris SPARC, and Microsoft Windows (Win32), operating systems. For more information, go to http://www.basis.com.