Caldera's New Services Business Unit Enhances Platform Solutions.Business/High-Tech Editors Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. Forum 2001 SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 2001 Product Support, Education, Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , and On-Line Services Merge to Provide SMBs and Corporations Full Suite of Services Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq:CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) today announced the formation of its Services Business Line. This line fuses Caldera's four international services practices, namely Product Support, Education, Professional Services, and On-Line Services including Volution Online. The Services Business Line focuses on providing small-to-medium businesses, replicated sites and vertical markets, including the telecommunications industry, enterprise class service for Linux and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). solutions. Complementing Caldera's new Platform Business Line, the Services Business Line supports Caldera's integrated platform strategy by providing a wide range of services, from full-blown management of large-scale projects and programs to on-line software management subscription services. "Caldera understands that customers need enterprise quality services around Linux before they complete full enterprise deployment projects," said Reg Broughton, senior vice president and general manager, Services Business Line, Caldera. "With all services in one business unit, Caldera can streamline and customize our offerings to meet the business critical requirements of partners and customers worldwide, empowering them to confidently deploy Caldera Linux and UNIX solutions." Caldera customers include Intel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn AG (abbr. DB AG, DBAG or simply DB) is the successor of the former state railways of Germany: the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the German Democratic Republic and the West Berlin VdeR. , the United States Army United States Army Major branch of the U.S. military forces, charged with preserving peace and security and defending the nation. The first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, to supplement local , Taco Bell Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain based in Irvine, California, United States. The restaurant has locations primarily in the United States and Canada, but also operates outlets in several other markets. , Ford, Kroger, Comverse, National Westminster Bank, Compaq, Unisys, K-Mart, Shopper's Drugmart, Nasdaq, H.O. Systems, Inc., and Incredible Technologies. "Compaq and SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , now Caldera, have had a long and successful history partnering to deliver quality products and solutions to our joint customers. Caldera's Engineering Services has been an instrumental component of this continuing partnership," said Tracey Stewart, director, Compaq Industry Standard Server Group. "Support has provided real solutions to dynamic OS issues in a timely manner," said Dale Reagan, director, UNIX Systems, H.O. Systems, Inc. "It's a winner!" About Caldera Product Support Caldera's Product Support is comprised of Business Services for enterprise and large corporate accounts, Developer Services for certification and developer support, and Channel Services, which provides phone support offerings to channel partners and end users. To learn more, please visit http://www.caldera.com/support/. About Caldera Professional Services Professional Services specializes in large-scale project work, solution implementation and custom software engineering, while also serving customers in small footprint and dedicated function system markets. It helps partners and customers build solutions based on Caldera's platform technologies as well as other Linux and UNIX platforms. Visit www.caldera.com/consulting for more details. About Caldera's Education Program OpenLearning is Caldera's designation for its global education services. Caldera establishes partnerships with IT training organizations around the world to offer the highest quality training on all Caldera platform and general Linux products. More information is located at http://www.caldera.com/education. About Caldera Volution On-Line Subscription Services Online Services incorporates Volution Online subscription services for Open Source users with Caldera's new Web-based support service, eServices. Open Source users should click on http://www.VolutionOnline.com to preview and trial the software management service. Caldera International, Inc. Caldera International (Nasdaq:CALD) is the leader in "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business." Based in Orem, UT, Caldera has representation in 82 countries and has 15,000+ resellers worldwide. For more information on Caldera products and services, visit http://www.caldera.com. Caldera, OpenLinux, UnixWare, Open UNIX, Caldera Volution and "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. All other products, services, companies, events and publications are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of their respective owners in the U.S. and/or other countries. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. . UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. |
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