Caldera Systems Deliver Free Linux Training at Linux Business Expo/Spring Comdex April 18-20.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COMDEX Spring 2000

OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000

Linux for eBusiness Leader will offer OpenLearning

Courseware to Attendees in the Morning and to IT Managers and VARs

in the Afternoon

Caldera Systems Inc., (Nasdaq: CALD) the Linux for eBusiness company, today announced that they will continue their tradition of offering free Linux training to attendees at Comdex and Linux Business Expo April 18 - 20 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

Each morning Caldera's OpenLearning Instructors will teach courses on OpenLinux eDesktop installation, Samba with SWAT, and Shell Scripting. Attendance is free of charge but participants must sign up for classes at the Caldera-sponsored Linux Learning Center, booth L2476. Each session lasts 30 minutes.

In the afternoon, Caldera will offer a Business Solutions session, open to IT managers and VARs, from 1:00 to 4:45. In this session, experts from Caldera Systems, Oracle, and Omnis will teach OpenLinux eServer installation, Oracle database products, and Omnis Studio. There is no charge for the session but participants must sign up at the Caldera-sponsored Linux Learning Center, booth L2476.

"These training sessions at Linux Business Expo are not only free -- they're free of fluff," said Shelley Couch, director of OpenLearning for Caldera Systems, Inc. "They'll be helpful to those evaluating Linux and those already working with Linux.

"Experts from Caldera Systems, Oracle, and Omnis will lead the afternoon Business Solutions session. It's a session IT managers and VARs don't want to miss."

Caldera Systems Inc.

Caldera Systems Inc. is the "Linux for Business and Linux for eBusiness" technology leader in developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions, including its award-winning OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support. Caldera Systems is a leader in, and supporter of Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Linux Professional Institute (LPI).

Caldera Systems offers a comprehensive line of services including free 30-day phone support, on-site consulting, 24x7 support -- to and including -- on-site board swap. Caldera OpenLearning Providers offer distribution-neutral Linux training and certification based on LPI certification standards.

The OpenLinux operating system and related services are available from Caldera Systems, and Caldera Systems resellers, partners, distributors and supporters like IBM, Motorola, Fujitsu, MTI and Helius.

OpenLinux has received many industry awards including Internetweeks' "Best of the Best," Linux Journal's "Product of the Year," "Best Networked Operating System" from Network Computing, Linuxworld's "Editor's Choice" award: Best Client and Distribution, Linux Journal's "Product of the Year," The Linux Show's "Best Distribution of the Millennium," Linux Magazine's "Cool Product," PC Direct (Ziff-Davis) "Best Buy 2000" award, MikroPC (PC Magazine) "Product of the Year," Linux Magazine's "Emperor Award," Andover.net Dave Central's "Best of Linux." Other accolades include Red Herring's "Top 50 Privately Held Companies," "Millennium 2000 eBusiness 150" as listed by Upside Magazine (number 17) and PC Magazine's "Top 100 Technology Companies that are Changing the World."

Caldera Systems Inc. is based in Orem, with offices and 750+ resellers worldwide. Please visit Caldera Systems at www.calderasystems.com. In the US, please call 888-GO-Linux (888/465-4689). For U.S. technical support, please call 801-443-1000. In Europe, please call 801/765-4999 or contact us via e-mail at [e-mail]. To become an eSolutions Provider, please visit www.calderasystems.com/partners/esp.

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 U.S. and/or 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; 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 S-1.

LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.