Caldera Leads Linux Companies In VARBusiness Annual Report Card; Solution-Provider Partners Place OpenLinux Above Other Distributions Surveyed.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 In VARBusiness' 2000 Annual Report Card (ARC), OpenLinux from 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. Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) received the highest rating among all Linux distributions  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. surveyed. Results of the ARC were announced in the Oct. 16, 2000 issue of VARBusiness. The ARC survey covered 12 product categories, including operating platforms. "This is important validation for OpenLinux," said Kerry Brock, vice president of marketing for Caldera Systems. "The results are from individuals who know Caldera and recognize that we provide solid Linux solutions for business. We are committed to delivering the best in open source technology -- and this report underscores it." The VARBusiness Annual Report Card honors top technology vendors each year, with selection determined by market share and sales through solution providers. As part of this year's evaluations, solution-provider partners rated their satisfaction with over 40 vendors based on 11 separate criteria in the areas of products/pricing, support and partnership. Final results come from roughly 4,600 finished surveys and are found online at http://www.varbusiness.com/arc. Caldera and Open Source Caldera Systems is a leader in -- and supporter of -- the Open Source movement. Please visit www.openlinux.org to download Caldera Systems' technologies that have been open sourced -- including but not limited to -- LIZARD, Caldera Open Administration System (COAS COAS College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (Oregon State University) COAS Chief of Army Staff COAs Children of Alcoholics COAS Cooperadora de Acción Social (Argentina) COAS Crew Optical Alignment Sight ), Webmin, OpenSLP, the NetWare Kernel File System (NKFS NKFS National Kidney Foundation Singapore ) and the OpenLinux 2.2 port for Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (TM) and UltraSPARC(TM)-based platforms. Caldera Systems Inc. Caldera Systems Inc. is a "Linux for Business" technology leader in developing and marketing successful Linux-based business solutions, including its award-winning OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support -- with free 30-day phone support and on-site consulting. Caldera OpenLearning Providers offer exceptional distribution-neutral Linux training and certification based on Linux Professional Institute (LPI (Lines Per Inch) The number of lines printed in a vertical inch. (language) LPI - A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc. E-mail: <rcg@lpi.liant.com>. (TM)) certification standards. Caldera Systems supports the open source community and is a leader in, and advocate of, Linux Standard Base See LSB. (LSB (Linux Standard Base) A standard interface (ABI) for Linux from the Linux Foundation (www.linux-foundation.org). Introduced in 2001 by the Free Standards Group, which later became the Linux Foundation, applications based on the LSB standard will run properly under (TM)) and LPI(TM). Caldera Inc. was co-founded in 1994 by Ransom Love. Caldera Systems Inc. was founded by Ransom Love in 1998 to develop Linux-based business solutions. Based in Orem, Caldera Systems has offices and 1,000+ resellers worldwide. For more information, see www.calderasystems.com or in the United States call 888/GO-Linux (888/465-4689). Caldera is a registered trademark of Caldera Systems Inc. All other products, services, companies, events and publications are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. |
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