Hummingbird, Caldera announce alliance

Daveguy wrote to us with the news about Hummingbird has entered into a relationship with Caldera for both marketing and strategic development. Very cool-Hummingbird is going to be working with them on Exceed; HostExplorer; NFS Maestro Server, NFS Maestro Client, NFS Maestro Gateway and NFS Maestro Solo, all for more support Linux.

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Re:DigitalPaper

[jetson123]

There are several printer drivers like that available for a variety of purposes (none of them free/open source AFAIK, though).

Also, you can simply print from Windows to a Linux Samba server and tell Windows that it is a PostScript printer. That way, there is nothing at all to install. On the Linux side, you can convert to PDF.

This is an odd announcement...

[Ami Ganguli]

I can't imagine what kind of technology this could produce. Exceed already connects to Linux boxes (it's just X-Windows, after all). I always figured Linux would make products like Exceed redundant, since I can load Linux on my PC and get an X-Server for free.

I'm guessing this is just some sort of marketting alliance. Maybe Caldera will start distributing Exceed or something like that.

Exceed...

[CodeShark]

I am not so qualified on the Linux side of the fence in terms of NFS, X-Servers, etc., but I used Exceed in a previous assignment, and let me tell you, it saved several projects from going down the tubes. In fact, when the NT client software failed (which it did on regular occasions, we used Exceed (on NT machines and Win95 machines) to prove that the problem wasn't in the database or middleware layers.

My thoughts are that this is a very positive direction for Caldera to pursue in terms of gaining "brain trust", with the addenda that I hope that this results in more code for the rest of us to use, and not just a locked proprietary solution.