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Caldera® Announces New Caldera OpenLinux® (COL) Platform and Three-Tier
Product Strategy
New Technology and Stratified Products to Ship in 4th Quarter 1996 and
Throughout 1997
Provo, UT October 9, 1996 Caldera Inc. today announced the development and
implementation of Caldera OpenLinux (COL), a new 32-bit, Linux 2.x-based
platform for extending
local area networks (LANs) to the home, branch office, remote user,
Inter/intranet and embedded systems. To extend the LANs in an economical
and easily managed way, COL
technology will be offered in three product stratifications; base,
workstation and server. Caldera the leader in commercial Linux-based
system software debuted COL this week at UNIX
Expo in New York.
"Caldera first met customer demand for commercial Linux solutions by
combining Linux technologies with enterprise standards like NetWare and
Netscape Navigator ," said Ransom
Love, vice president of marketing and sales for Caldera. "From the best of
these and other technologies have evolved the Caldera OpenLinux platform
and stratified products. Caldera
product offerings will now be based on the COL platform with complete
stratified solutions for workgroup and network/server environments."
The secure, peer-to-peer COL platform first evolved from the synthesis of
Caldera's existing Linux-based technologies and those acquired from
Lasermoon of Wickham, England,
pioneers of the Linux migration towards X/Open standards and other
certifications.
The efforts of the Linux System Technologies (LST) of Erlangen, Germany,
completed the evolution of COL by integrating the Caldera and Lasermoon
technologies with additional
Internet technologies and LST's Linux 2.x-based products. COL is the
official upgrade path for Lasermoon customers.
Certification
Currently, Caldera is working with the Linux community in making COL
compliant and certified with industry standards like POSIX.1 (FIPS 151-2),
Single UNIX Specification APIs
and X-Open branding. These additions will be in future releases of COL
stratified products when the enhancements have been integrated by key
Linux developers. All of the work for
standards compliance will be freely contributed back to the Linux
community.
Languages
Caldera is committed to providing products for the global Linux market.
COL stratified products will ship with an installation localized into
English and German. Additional components of
the product will be localized into English, French, German and Spanish.
Caldera also plans product localization for the Japanese and Chinese
markets.
COL base
The COL base product includes the following:
* Linux 2.x (multi-tasking, multi-user, 32-bit kernel with firewall
facilities and comprehensive system utilities open source code included
on CD-ROM)
* LookingGlass (graphical user interface with icon bar, drag and drop,
comprehensive file typing and user-defined configuration, etc.)
* Netscape Navigator 2.02 (the widely popular client software for
enterprise networks and the Internet)
* X-Inside 1.3 (accelerated X-Window system with more than 400
graphical drivers)
* CrispLite (powerful, graphical text editor)
* Caldera Solutions CD (fee-based, commercial, Linux-based software
applications from Caldera and other industry leaders)
... and other technologies
The COL base product provides Linux users and first time UNIX buyers with
a comprehensive UNIX system that can run on Intel-based PCs including
laptops with 16 MB of RAM.
COL will be made available to hardware and software OEMs, Channel Partners
and be the industry- standard platform for ISVs porting applications to
Linux.
The Caldera Solutions CD allows resellers and Linux users to purchase and
install from the CD-ROM Linux-based software applications to facilitate
the creation of customized solutions.
COL workstation
Plans for the COL workstation product include:
* COL base product (Linux 2.x, LookingGlass, X-Inside 1.3 and
CrispLite, etc.)
* Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold (Java , news reader and authoring tools)
* NetWare Client and NetWare Administration Enhancements (Increased and
enhanced NDS, bindery and print administration utility. Enhanced GUI
desktop utilities, tightly
* integrated with the Looking Glass desktop)
* Market-leading, commercial, secure, web server (a complete solution
for creating and managing web sites plus, the development and
deployment of live, network-centric,
* media-rich applications for the Inter/intranet)
* Caldera Solutions CD
... and other technologies
COL workstation is the Inter/intranet workstation solution providing
client and server capabilities for NetWare, UNIX and Windows NT in
conjunction with full Inter/intranet, authoring,
publishing and browsing capabilities. All services on the local network
may be extended down-the-hall, to-the-home or around the world across a
high-speed connection by simply
adding a frame relay or ISDN commodity card to Intel-based PCs. COL
workstation is the second-generation solution for Caldera Network Desktop
(CND) customers and replaces
CND.
COL server
* COL workstation product (Linux 2.x, Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold,
NetWare Client Enhancements, commercial, secure, web server etc.)
* Novell Cross Platform Services (NCPS) (includes license for Novell
Directory Services (NDS) and five-user NetWare File and Print )
* Caldera Solutions CD
* Novell GroupWise (Caldera has contracted to include a five-user
license)
... and other technologies
The COL server is designed for the workgroup and small office environments
that need to fully utilize all systems. The COL server combines a complete
applications server with all
necessary Inter/intranet technologies enabling an organization to publish
and interoperate with the Internet in a secure fashion. The COL server
complements all NetWare, UNIX and
Windows NT environments.
Future Development and Internet/Linux Community Funding
Caldera will continue to collaborate with developers in the Internet and
Linux communities to develop and refine technologies that add the specific
functionality requested by Caldera's
customers. In addition, Caldera will provide a percentage of net revenues
from COL-based products back to the Internet and Linux communities through
funding for future technology
development.
Customer Support
Support for the COL base product will be Internet-based, using the WWW and
FTP. In addition to the Internet-based support, support for the
workstation and server products will
include free thirty-day installation support as well as fee-based, per
incident support calls.
Pricing
The COL base product is scheduled to ship in November, 1996 for a
suggested retail price of $59 US. The COL workstation product will ship
for a suggested retail price of less than
$300 US. The COL server product will ship for a suggested retail price of
less than $1500 US.
Promotions and Upgrades
Until December 31, 1996, current registered CND users and those who
purchase and register CND between now and December 31, or while supplies
last, may purchase COL
workstation for $59 US.
The COL base product is not an upgrade to CND. Users of the COL base
product will be provided an upgrade to both COL workstation and COL server
when these products ship.
Until December 31, 1996, current users of any Linux operating system (WGS
LinuxPro, Red Hat, Slackware, Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux, etc.) may
upgrade to the COL base
product for $45 US. Proof of usage may be presented to any Caldera Channel
Partner or Caldera, Inc.
Caldera, Inc. designs, develops and markets a line of full-featured,
economical system software for the Internet by the Internet, providing
stable, high-quality alternatives to NT, Sun
Solaris, and SCO UNIX. Caldera uses it own technological and marketing
resources to leverage technologies including the Linux operating system
created by independent developers
worldwide. Visit the Caldera web site at http://www.caldera.com/.
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Caldera is a registered trademark; and Caldera OpenLinux, Caldera Network
Desktop, Caldera Solutions CD and Caldera OpenDOS are trademarks of
Caldera, Inc. UNIX is a
registered trademark, in the United States and other countries, licensed
exclusively through X/OPEN Company Limited. Netscape Communications, the
Netscape Communications logo,
Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications
Corporation. All other products, services, companies and publications are
trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
Caldera Press Contacts:
Lyle Ball Nancy Pomeroy
lyle.ball@caldera.com nancy@caldera.com
Tel: (801) 377-7687 x305 Tel: (801) 377-7687 x206
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