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Caldera Recognition at Networld+Interop
fusion94 wrote in to send us a story
about Caldera Winning
a 'Well Connected Award' in the Network OS category at
Networld+Interop. Nice little publicity there. Nifty.
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If your looking for the exact link its: http://www.nwc.com/1010/1010f144.html#5 .
Also, there is the video of the whole thing so you can see it announced. (thats the whole awards ceremony...)
Good Fast Cheap. Pick any two.
Of course it is fun to think of someone else in the Linux community winning "Best of Show" last time.
The new Caldera is the easiestOS to install of any that I've every tried. It blows everything else away. My god it is slick and easy. I always thought Red Hat Linux was easy but the new Caldera is foolproof. This sets the new standard.
They tested only one linux distribution, caldera. Red hat was not even tested. They compared caldera to other non linux operating systems. This is kind of misleading. (redhat was not even in the game)
It was good to see Caldera there. I installed 2.2 last weekend, and it was incredibly easy to set up. Hopefully Novell will cooperate a little better so we can get some Netware administration tools available for Linux.
Penguin Computing was also there with a nifty new server on display. Red Hat didn't have its own setup, but Dell had a Red Hat section for its Power Edge (?) server line. There was also a company displaying its Linux router product. And I forget which company was displaying its Alpha servers designed for Linux.
While searching for info on Linux-friendly laptops I received a great deal of interest from Gateway and Toshiba. Hopefully they will move this interest out of the "informal" mode into officially supporting Linux on their products.
And one last ironic thing. While discussing VPN software with Checkpoint, they showed me their new product that runs with Firewall-1. Problem is, they don't have a Linux client for it. I kindly suggested that a firewall admin is very likely to want Linux VPN support at home, and that for some of us Windows is not a desirable choice. Apparently Checkpoint employees are being rebuffed when they suggest that a Linux VPN client would be a good thing. I told them to let the PHBs know that some of their potential VPN customers insist upon it.
All in all, it was a great show. I was very happy to see the visible interest in Linux this year.
Caldera...bleah.
Caldera's product have been "well connected" in Novell enviroment via a kernel module call "nkfs.o" But, Caldera's policies regarding nkfs.o has not lived up to the "Open" in the OpenLinux name. The "Open"Linux nkfs.o that has kept Caldera well-connected is not connected at all with Open Source because Caldera continues to refuse to "Open" it. And the results from the OpenSource community are in...
RedHat 6.0 and SuSE 6.1 can connect as NetWare clients to a Netware server, even as an NDS aware client. Also, the support for accomplishing this is OpenSource and the functionality remains even if you upgrade to a kernel that either company does not offically support.
Caldera "Open"Linux continues to lock you into specific offically supported kernel or otherwise the close source nkfs.o module is unusable. Once you attempt to take advantage of the driver, performance or other features of newer kernels, the "well connected" Caldera product barfs up the nkfs.o as an unloadable piece of prioritary Caldera doop.
Hence, I elect that Caldera's product now be refered to as CCL (Caldera CLOSElinux) to pay respect for the business practices that made it the unusable piece of trash it is.
"Well connected"? Not to Open Source community they aren't. Go Caldera CLOSElinux! Prioritary kernel extention vendor of the year!
Btw, didn't Novell just invest heavily into RedHat Corp.?