Press Release

TARANTELLA HELPS BANKSERV SPEED WEB-BASED SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS

BankServ Cuts Costs, Completes Rollout Faster with Tarantella

January 16, 2001 - SANTA CRUZ, CA — Tarantella, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOC), today announced that BankServ chose Tarantella Enterprise web-enabling software to deploy its proprietary Global Funds Exchange (GFX) wire transfer service to the banking community. BankServ is one of the leading payment services providers in the U.S. Tarantella Enterprise software enables BankServ to provide its financial institution customers with web access to its payment processing solution, GFX, in record time, without having to rewrite its existing applications, and at a far lower cost than originally anticipated.

"The web is changing the way the banking industry operates, and the trend is to offer more web-based services," said Mike Dionne, vice president and general manager at BankServ. "Tarantella software allows us to more quickly provide our clients with web-based cash management services. We had planned to re-write our GFX applications in order to web enable them, but with the Tarantella Enterprise software we are realizing cost savings of about 50 - 75% in creating this web-based service, and the project is expected to be completed about nine months faster than anticipated."

"We're delighted with the success of Tarantella Enterprise software at BankServ," said Wayne Bergland, vice president North American Sales, Tarantella, Inc. "This is yet another example of how Tarantella software can enable the banking industry to realize the potential of their investment and move rapidly and efficiently into the Internet economy."

BankServ's Challenge

BankServ had an immediate need to rapidly deploy its GFX services to the banking community. The ability to rapidly deploy multi-platform applications to any client with a browser, without any client installation, was key to BankServ's decision to choose Tarantella Enterprise software. Now, BankServ can offer more web-based services to its customers, which helps sharpen the company's competitive edge.

Tarantella Enterprise

Tarantella software web-enables any application so it can be used interactively over the web by any authorized user, anywhere. Specially designed to meet the demands of the large enterprise, Tarantella Enterprise provides the scalability, stability and reliability demanded by large organizations, who may need to support thousands of users across multiple locations. With Tarantella software, no application code needs to be rewritten, and no extra application software is installed on users' client devices.

About Tarantella, Inc.

Tarantella, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., provides web-enabling software technologies connecting clients, server-based applications, and networks. The Tarantella product line includes Tarantella Enterprise 3 software for large companies and organizations, Tarantella Enterprise 3, ASP Edition software for Application Service Providers, and Tarantella Express web-enabling software for workgroup and departmental environments. Tarantella products provide access to Microsoft Windows system, mainframe, AS/400, Linux and UNIX applications, and are available today for all popular RISC and Intel processor-based UNIX servers and selected Linux servers. For more information, see www.tarantella.com