Adios, Caldera; Hello, SCO Group

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 26, 2002 @07:51AM 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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Caldera did spring from Novell, sorta by alienmole · 2002-08-26 11:09 · 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.