SCO announces new vice president of human resources

Business Wire, August 7, 1995

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1995--The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) (NASDAQ:SCOC), today announced that Jack Moyer has been appointed Vice President, Human Resources, reporting directly to Alok Mohan, President and CEO. Moyer comes to SCO with 20 years experience in human resources management, with a background encompassing management development, recruitment, compensation and international human resources.

"I'm pleased to have Jack on board at SCO. His solid background will significantly lend to his role in driving our human resources programs. We look forward to the addition of Jack to SCO's senior executive management team," said Mohan.

Effective immediately, Moyer will replace Greg Dougherty, formerly Senior Vice President, Human Resources, who joined the company in 1988. After 6 years at SCO, Dougherty elected to pursue other interests. SCO wishes him well in his future endeavors. Moyer was most recently Vice President, Human Resources for Ore-Ida Foods, Inc. Prior to that he was Vice President, Human Resources at Maspar Computer Corporation, a privately held start-up in Sunnyvale, CA. Moyer's human resources management experience also includes positions at Businessland, Inc., National Micronetics, Inc., and National Semiconductor.

SCO is the world's leading provider of UNIX server and host systems, with more unit shipments in 1994 than SunSoft's Solaris 1 and 2, IBM's AIX, HP's HP-UX, and Novell's UnixWare combined (source: IDC, most current data as of 12/94). SCO Business Critical Servers run the critical day-to-day operations of large branch organizations in retail, finance, and government, as well as corporate departments and small to medium-size businesses of every kind. SCO is also the leading provider of software that integrates Windows PCs and other clients with servers from all major UNIX System vendors. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For additional corporate and product information, see SCO's home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.sco.com. -0-

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