Caldera Professional Services and Intel Developing Open Source Debugger For FORTRAN 95; Development to Include Support for IA32 and Intel Itanium Architecture in the GNU Debugger.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld Conference & Expo OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001 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. International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) Tuesday announced its Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. group will work with Intel to develop support of FORTRAN 95 for both IA32 and the Intel(R) Itanium(TM) Architecture in the GNU Debugger The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, FreeBASIC, and Fortran. (GDB (programming, tool) GDB - GNU debugger. The FSF's source-level debugger for C, C++ and other languages. Developed by many people but most recently Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>, Stu Grossman <grossman@cygnus.com> and John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus. ). Working with Intel, Caldera Professional Services is developing and testing code, which will be open sourced and made available to the official GDB tree. Upon its completion, the GDB code will enable FORTRAN compiler Noun 1. Fortran compiler - a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN compiling program, compiler - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program customers to debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. all FORTRAN applications effectively. Previously, users of GDB have only been able to debug some FORTRAN applications. The enhanced GDB will also accelerate FORTRAN application porting to Pentium and Itanium processors by speeding up the debugging process. "Up to this point, support for FORTRAN in the GNU Debugger has been limited," said David Taylor David Taylor or Dave Taylor can be one of several persons: Sports people
"Caldera's custom engineering will significantly increase the quality and extent of FORTRAN support in GDB. We are delighted that Intel selected Caldera to perform this work. It validates our strong track record and capability to execute in-depth custom Linux projects, and benefits customers and the Open Source community." "Demands for modernization of GDB are growing among ISVs, large end-users and Intel OEMs," said Jon Khazam, director of performance tools operation in Intel's Solutions Enabling Group. "Historically, debugging has been one of the areas of least satisfaction among Linux developers and Intel is pleased to assist Caldera in this effort." "An enhanced GDB Fortran debugger for Linux is an essential tool for SGI's high performance customers," said Paul McNamara, vice president, Marketing Product Management, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. . "Coupled with the Intel compilers, the Caldera debugger will provide a more complete set of tools for SGI's Itanium customers." 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 technologies as well as other 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). platforms. Visit www.caldera.com/consulting for more details. Caldera International Inc. Caldera International is the leader in "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business." Based in Orem, 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 United States and/or other countries. Intel Pentium and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Forward-Looking Statements The statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The company wishes to advise readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the failure of the products described above to operate as designed due to incompatibility with some platforms or other defects; our reliance on developers in the open source community; new and changing technologies and customer acceptance of those technologies; the company's ability to compete effectively with other companies; failure of our brand to achieve the broad recognition necessary to succeed; unenforceability of the GNU general public license A software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that ensures every user receives the essential freedoms that define "free" software, which is free of restrictions (see free software). and other open source licenses; our reliance on third-party developers of components of our software offerings; claims of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights; and disruption in the company's distribution sales channel. These and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially, are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . |
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