Former Caldera Systems is center of UnitedLinux consortium, but normal Unix customers, small-mid size businesses, are its main income. Heavy turnover in SCO sales organization makes it hard to get firm's attention. [Baseline]
The former CEO of Caldera and architect of its SCO acquisition disagrees with firm's legal campaign against Linux vendors, but he still thinks SCO has case against IBM. [eWeek]
A leading Linux distributor bought Server and Professional Services Division of Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), long-time leader of Intel Unix. With this one move, Linux and Unix are unified for first time under one firm; enterprise OS world will never be same. [Vaughan-Nichols & Associates]
After Caldera's four-to-one stock buy back, it looked like firm was out of financial trouble. That has proven untrue, but CEO Ransom Love remains optimistic about sales of firm's Linux and Unix systems. [NewsForge]
For technical and functional discussion of the Caldera OpenLinux system.
Compares AIX, Solaris, Tru64, SCO OpenServer and UnixWare. SCO OSs are underpowered, overpriced, lacking in scalability and security. SCO may be the true Unix, but it's also the weakest. [The Jem Report]
In ZDNet interview, Caldera chief Ransom Love hits back at Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman, denies he is greedy capitalist or parasite. [CNET ZDNet]
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