“AmeriQuest Technologies… announced today that it has
experienced extraordinary growth in sales for SCO products to its
Value-Added-Reseller (VAR) and Systems Integrator (SI) customers
over its last three fiscal 1999 quarters. … AmeriQuest executives
attributed much of the dramatic growth to several factors,
including the increased media coverage of Linux, the
growth in awareness of and demand for UNIX products overall as a
result, and the strength of AmeriQuest’s relationship with SCO.
‘With ownership of 41% of the total UNIX marketplace, and 80% of
the market for UNIX on Intel platforms, SCO is clearly delivering
the most widely accepted and scalable UNIX,’ said Alex Kramer,
president of AmeriQuest. ‘Our VAR and SI customers — especially
those who have vertical market software applications — want an
extremely stable platform on which to build, which SCO provides. In
addition, the highly public debate over Linux vs. Windows(R) NT may
also be rapidly expanding the overall market opportunities for
UNIX, and I think SCO and we are definitely sharing the benefits
resulting from that expanded market.’ “