Caldera Enters Partnership Agreement With Conectiva
Paul Hatch
CALDERA ENTERS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH CONECTIVA
Partnership To Provide Future Growth Opportunities For Sales, Licensing,
Training, Support, And Services Opportunities in Brazil And Throughout
Latin America
LINDON, Utah-July 24, 2002-Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), a
leading provider of Linux and UNIX business solutions, building upon its
recently announced UnitedLinux partnership with Conectiva, today
announced a comprehensive partnership with Conectiva, Inc. that will
expand Caldera's presence in Brazil. Based in Curitiba, Brazil,
Conectiva is the leading provider of Linux solutions and services to the
Latin American market.
Under terms of the agreement, Conectiva's sales force and reseller
channels will sell Caldera's products and services. Specifically,
Caldera will provide the Volution product and services family of
messaging and systems management solutions, as well as the company's
Open UNIX and OpenServer UNIX solutions into Brazil, with future
possibilities of extending the relationship to the rest of the Latin
American market. In addition, Conectiva and Caldera will partner to
provide customer support, training and professional services for the
companies' mutual customers.
According to IDC, Linux server software experienced 24 percent growth in
Brazil last year, compared to 21 percent growth for Microsoft Windows(
server software.
"Expanding our relationship with Conectiva was a natural extension of
the UnitedLinux initiative," said Darl McBride, president and CEO of
Caldera. "With 70 percent of the Linux market share in Latin America,
Conectiva is in a better position to more economically and efficiently
service the business customers in this important market.
This also facilitates business with customers and partners who need to
seamlessly deploy business solutions throughout the Americas by
facilitating a united product, service and support model."
"This contract is extremely important for both companies," said Sandro
Nunes Henrique, Conectiva's director. "Working together, we will provide
customers with greater products and services than our two companies
could have provided separately. This way, IT executives will benefit
with more confidence in their technology and the companies providing
that technology. We are making it easier for decision making with
regards to their systems in Brazil."
"As one of Caldera's main business partners in Latin America, OS&T is
very excited about this new partnership with Caldera and Conectiva,"
said Rosangela Martins, president of OS&T Informatica Ltda, a long-time
Caldera reseller in Brazil. "Through this relationship we can more
easily harness the strengths of Linux and UNIX for our customers."
For more information on Caldera, Conectiva, and UnitedLinux, customers
should visit www.unitedlinux.com, contact Caldera at www.caldera.com or
call Caldera's headquarters at 801-765-4999.
Conectiva
Conectiva S.A. is a private company specializing in services,
development and distribution of the Linux operating system in Latin
America. The Company has received investments from ABN AMRO Bank and
LatinTech Capital. Conectiva has a network of partners, the Conectiva
Business Channel, that offers support, consulting and training
throughout the region. The Company commercializes and implements
solutions based on open source software in vertical markets,
corporations, educational and other governmental entities. Conectiva is
a Brazilian company, based in Curitiba, Paraná, with offices in São
Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Brasília and Porto Alegre.
Caldera International, Inc.
Caldera International (Nasdaq: CALD) provides "Powerful Choices" for
businesses through its UNIX, Linux and Volution product lines and
services. Based in Lindon, UT, Caldera has representation in 82
countries and 16,000+ resellers worldwide. Caldera Global Services
provides reliable localized support and services to partners and
customers. For more information on Caldera products and services, visit
http://www.caldera.com.
Caldera, the Caldera logos, Caldera Volution, OpenLinux, SCO and the
associated SCO logo, and SCO OpenServer are trademarks or registered
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countries. Caldera Global Services is a service mark of Caldera
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marketplace of the historical products of the acquired operations; the
ability of the Company to develop and successfully introduce products
integrating its products and services with those historically offered by
the recently acquired operations; the ability of the Company to continue
to manage its cost reductions without adversely affecting customer
service and employee productivity; the ability of recently introduced
and new products to operate as designed, including compatibility with
various platforms in the absence of other defects; the Company's
reliance on developers in the open source community; new and changing
technologies and customer acceptance of those technologies; the
Company's ability to compete effectively with other companies; failure
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Contact:
Blake Stowell
Caldera International, Inc.
bsto...@caldera.com
Tel: (801) 932-5703
www.caldera.com