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Adios, Caldera; Hello, SCO Group

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the by-any-other-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Caldera International, the company that sprang from Novell and went on to distribute a Linux distribution popular among users before the company's decision to withdraw from the retail desktop market, is no more. Instead, what was once Caldera is now 'the SCO Group.' The change, announced at the company's 'GeoFORUM' conference in Las Vegas Monday, recognizes Caldera's acquisition of SCO Unix, and follows what former employees claimed was a switch in emphasis from Caldera OpenLinux to SCO Unix. At the same time, the company announced a new business plan, called 'SCOx,' and new versions of its Unix and Linux distributions. Details, which combine a multitude of press releases, are on Linux and Main."

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  1. Re:the story was here already this morning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    wow, who did they talk to I wonder? there's MUCH more detail here The explanation being offered by Linux Business Week is that McBride wants to recognize that 90% of its recent revenue has been coming from Unix operating systems that it bought from the old Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). Not Linux. This is a complete break with Ransom Love, who in his June /. interview, the then CEO of Caldera, Ransom Love, clearly had great visions for UnitedLinux and a strong sense of what the four founding companies could do in terms of rolling out a successful business distro of Linux.

    In this article published just this morning that he's not going to be the new general manager of UnitedLinux either, depriving that organization of Love's leadership toward the goal of establishing Linux as the dominant application server platform used by mainstream businesses. If he's not going to be president and CEO of UnitedLinux LLC, then what next? Apparently he's going to write a book instead...somewhat predictably called: Love of Linux. Geddit?

  2. Caldera did spring from Novell, sorta by alienmole · · Score: 3, Informative
    Caldera sprang from Novell in the sense that it was co-founded by Ray Noorda, the founder and ex-CEO of Novell.

    Caldera purchased the rights to DR-DOS from Novell in 1996.

    Caldera has not acquired Novell. Novell is an independently traded public company listed on NASDAQ.