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The SCO Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX software technology and mobile services, announced that it has promoted Sandy Gupta to President, SCO Operations Inc., effective immediately. Gupta will continue to report to Darl McBride, President and CEO of The SCO Group.

"With Sandy's extensive UNIX technical background and vision for our SCO Mobile products, he will be able to laser-focus on product deliverables and customer needs," said McBride. "We have a number of key technologies coming out in the next couple of quarters that will drive value for our customers; Sandy's focus will be a win-win for them. Those expanding their IT infrastructure into the mobile space will see a solid solution in SCO Mobile Server, with its UNIX technology backbone. Customers simply needing updated core SCO UNIX technology will have greater capabilities as well as future mobile plug and play functionality."

Most recently, Sandy Gupta was Chief Technology Officer and General Manager for The SCO Group. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions, including VP of SCO Engineering and Senior Director of UNIX Engineering while working for the SCO Murray Hill office in New Jersey. Gupta joined SCO in 1996 with the ISV engineering group. During this time, Gupta worked with strategic ISV partners including Progress, Oracle, Computer Associates and others on their ports to SCO UNIX platforms. Gupta then moved to the SCO UK escalations group and led the 24x7 enterprise escalations engineering team. He also led the SCO eCommerce and Web Services initiative in 2003.

Before joining SCO, Gupta worked for Fujitsu ICL in the United Kingdom. During this engagement, Gupta contributed tremendous effort to the core kernel team at ICL that oversaw the reference port and device driver development of UNIX System V on the SPARC platform. Prior to this experience, Gupta started his career as an intern scientist at Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO).

"After having worked at SCO for over a decade, I am thrilled to better serve our customers and partners in this new capacity," said Sandy Gupta, President of SCO Operations, Inc. "As our primary focus, we will strengthen and expand our UNIX product offerings to our partners and reinvigorate our channels in doing so. The SCO UNIX partner and customer ecosystem has also represented a great channel to launch SCO Mobile products and services complementary to the core UNIX products."