Caldera Press Release 5/23/96
Rick Lindsay
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 1996
CALDERA OPEN LINUX PRODUCT TO OBTAIN
POSIX AND FIPS CERTIFICATIONS, AND THE
X/OPEN BRAND FOR UNIX 95 AND XPG4 BASE 95
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and localization
added to Caldera's product line
LINUX KONGRESS, BERLIN, Germany May 23,
1996 Caldera, Inc. today announced that it has acquired
additional key Linux technologies and engineers, enabling the
company to achieve the X/Open brand for UNIX 95 and other
certifications for its next version of the Linux operating system,
Caldera Open Linux, upon which Caldera will base its product
line beginning this Fall. Caldera believes the X/Open brand and
other certifications are the next steps forward in providing the
corporate and government markets with proven Linux
technologies and products, which have gained substantial market
share among the Internet and development communities during the
past several years. Caldera also today announced plans to add
LDAP technologies to Caldera's product line.
"By developing and publishing source code over the
Internet, Caldera and the Linux community are changing the way
that an X/Open branded UNIX 95 operating system is developed
and distributed," said Bryan Sparks, President and CEO of
Caldera, Inc. "Linux technologies developed by the Internet
community have secured market share and application
development that rivals the best of established computer industry
vendors. Caldera development and infrastructure efforts will now
take Linux technologies and products into companies,
governments and other organizations that demand that software
undergo rigid standards testing and certifications."
Caldera has acquired additional Linux technologies from
Lasermoon of Wickham, England. Lasermoon pioneered Linux's
migration towards X/Open standards and other certifications, and
held the necessary test suites and membership in The Open
Group, the leading consortium for the advancement of open
systems. Ian Nandhra, one of Lasermoon's co-founders, is now
Caldera's Director of Product Certification.
Caldera has also retained the UNIX systems and Linux
expertise of engineers from Linux Support Team (LST) of
Erlangen, Germany, who will spend the next few months
integrating technologies from Lasermoon, Caldera's existing
operating system, additional Single UNIX Specification APIs and
Internet technologies, and LST's Linux 2.2 operating system,
based on Linux 2.0 source code from the Internet. The resulting
version of the Linux OS will be called Caldera Open Linux. It
will be POSIX.1 (FIPS 151-2) certified, localized and fully
compatible with Caldera's existing products.
Caldera Open Linux, scheduled for release in Q3 1996,
will be published freely with full source code via the Internet to
individuals and organizations seeking stable, UNIX systems
solutions. Caldera plans to achieve: POSIX.1 (FIPS 151-2) in
Q3 1996; XPG4 Base 95 (POSIX.2, FIPS 186) by Q4 1996; and
X/Open brand for UNIX 95 based on the Single UNIX
Specification (formerly known as SPEC 1170) during 1997.
"The Open Group is very pleased that Caldera has chosen
to obtain the X/Open brand for UNIX 95 for its version of the
Linux operating system," said Graham Bird, Director of Branding
for the Open Group.
"Once Caldera Open Linux achieves the X/Open brand, it will be
qualified to bid business in the open systems market the value of
which exceeds $16 billion in procurement of X/Open branded
products alone."
Ransom Love, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for
Caldera, added,"Our customers are pleased with the capabilities of
Caldera's first product, the Caldera Network Desktop, and are now
asking us to provide the X/Open brand, localization, and
additional technologies. Caldera Open Linux will provide this
additional functionality and certification capabilities that no
existing Linux OS version can provide."
Caldera made this announcement from Linux Kongress in
Berlin, Germany, where the core of Linux developers and vendors
worldwide meet each year to discuss accomplishments and future
plans for Linux technologies. At Linux Kongress, Caldera planned
to meet with key Linux developers and vendors to discuss how
Caldera can best meet the needs of the Internet community, Linux
developers and enthusiasts, and the commercial computer industry
market all of which are seeking to lower computing costs while
increasing the functionality and availability of customizable
software systems.
Caldera will collaborate with developers in the Internet
and Linux communities to develop and refine technologies that
add specific functionality that Caldera's customers are requesting.
In addition to publishing the source code for Caldera Open Linux,
Caldera will provide a significant percentage of net revenues from
the product back to the Internet and Linux communities through
funding for future technology development.
Caldera is also collaborating with mainstream industry
software vendors (ISVs) who are porting their products to
Caldera's platform. Caldera and its partners are delivering
products that provide Internet and UNIX systems capabilities at
commodity pricing.
LDAP
Caldera also today announced plans to release Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services and incorporate
LDAP into Caldera's product line this Fall. LDAP creates a
standard way for Internet clients, Web servers and applications to
access directory listings of thousands of Internet users.
"Caldera supports LDAP as a proposed open standard for
directory services on the Internet," said Sparks. "LDAP will
enable Caldera's customers to access online directory services via
the TCP/IP network protocol."
Caldera Europe
Currently, Caldera's European business is handled by
LunetIX based in Berlin, Germany. This Fall, Caldera will create
Caldera Europe, comprised of employees from both LunetIX and
LST. European customers and resellers seeking additional
information about Caldera should contact LunetIX in Berlin at
telephone number +49-30-623-5787 or contact Caldera's Provo,
Utah-based headquarters.
The Caldera Linux Operating System
Caldera's mission includes creating the products, alliances,
VAR channel, ISV channel, technical support programs and
corporate accountability necessary for an emerging technology to
obtain widespread implementation in the business environment.
Using Linux technologies, Caldera has a solid start. Mirai, a
Chicago-based consulting company, polled Webmasters worldwide
in 1995 and found that nine percent of World Wide Web servers
were running on the Linux operating system
(http://www.mirai.com/survey). This places Linux second only to
Sun technologies as a UNIX systems Web server platform.
Caldera has created a solid foundation on which third
party developers can successfully design, develop, distribute or
employ services that meet the needs of the expanding market with
low product costs for consumers.
Caldera, Inc., a privately held company established in
1994, empowers the Internet community, developers, OEMs,
channel partners, ISVs, industry partners, consultants and end-
users to collaborate, innovate, build and deliver meaningful
computing alternatives based on Linux to the business community.
Caldera is at http://www.caldera.com/ or (801) 229-1675. For
orders and information call (800) 850-7779 in the United States or
(801) 269-7012 Internationally.
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Caldera is a registered trademark; and Network Desktop, Caldera Internet
Office Suite, Caldera Solutions CD, and Caldera Open Linux are
trademarks of Caldera, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark, in the
United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open
Company Limited. X/Open is a registered trademark of X/Open
Company Limited.
Caldera Press Contact:
Lyle Ball, Senior Manager, Public Relations
lyle...@caldera.com, tel: (801) 229-1675 x305