dentinmud writes "The DOJ has forced Microsoft to handover the source code to Windows 95/98." Gosh, Caldera, DOJ--maybe they should just handing it out? Oh, wait...

Jeff Alami writes "32 Bits Online's Jeff Alami interviews Ransom Love, General Manager of the OpenLinux Division at Caldera, Inc., about Caldera's new developments, including Caldera NetWare Server, KDE integration, and Caldera Small Business Server."

Cory Lueninghoener sent us a link to another press release, this one announcing that Caldera has released version 1.0 of Netware for Linux.

Rumour has it that Intel is to take over the Santa Cruz Operation. This would garantee that Merced would not only have NT support but also Unix support. It'd be cool if SCO became a Linux distributor, but... As background, here is a comparison of SCO/NT/Linux. (Some of the Linux comments are Caldera specific.)

slothdog writes " A Utah federal judge ruled yesterday that Microsoft must hand over the source code for Windows95 to Caldera, though they cannot use it for any reason other than litigation." The article itself is written for a novice, but wow. The implications of this are amazing.

Microsoft is hitting back at critics with subpoenas of its own. Among those affected is Caldera. Microsoft is trying to back up its claim that all other OS's include Internet support, so they should too. I wonder though whether Caldera was chosen for OpenLinux or OpenDOS. Thanks to Joe Merlino for alerting us. Here's some historical background

Informix has officially embraced Linux. As of today, anyone who registers with Informix may use development versions of Informix-SE, ESQL/C, and other tools at no cost as part of a special development kit for Linux. You can register and find more information here. Right now, the software only supports Caldera and S.u.S.E, but a Red Hat version is coming soon. Anyone care to guess which database vendor will join the race next - Informix had some very nice things to say about Linux? Thanks go to Laura Kenner and Chip Dehnert for this one.

vasquez was the first to tell us that X inside, now Xi Graphics, the makers of Accelerated X, will be releasing a new Linux distribution targeted at Fortune 500 companies. As they already sell and support their own commercial software to the above companies, they know what level of support to provide, and how not to get sued. What's funny is that they were asked to do this by the said companies... what's wrong with Redhat? Suse? Dld? Caldera? Maybe Xig will produce updates at a slower rate. Let's hope they also contribute to all Linuxes, like Redhat, Caldera and Suse have done.

Caldera's very cool PR manager, Laura Kenner sent us a scoop about a very interesting development: "Caldera, Inc. is adopting and supporting KDE technology. Caldera will include the K Desktop Enviornment in the OpenLinux 1.2.2 maintainence release due out the end of September. KDE will be the default desktop in the Caldera OpenLinux 2.0 product, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of this year." The full text of the press release will probably be available on Caldera's web page tomorrow. This is a good move, I think - but for some unusual reasons. The primary reason being that it sounds like a good motivation to get those Harmony people hacking right away!

Simon_Jester sent us a link to the latest Spencer Katt Column where you can read rumours that Caldera and Red Hat could be merging. Now that would be a significant event.

Broadening support, Caldera has said that as of Wednesday, June 24, a three-user license version wil be on their FTP server for download. The announcement will be posted on their web site later today, but sources inside the company have confirmed this already. Mmmm...I love good news after lunch. For the full press release, read more below.

Matthew Newhall has written an interesting piece on commercial vs. GPLd programming, and OS development. His solution is a free software advocacy commercial license. Will it work? Read and decide for yourself.

Kenneth Oswalt writes "Performance Computing (aka the magazine once known as "Unix review") has an interesting review of Caldera Openlinux on their website and in the july issue of their mag. In it they describe the relative ease of installation, and the wide variety of applications, as well as comparing Redhat's documentation to that of Caldera. (spoiler, redhat wins.) "

Eureka sent us a press release from Cobalt, maker of those very cool server cubes we saw at LinuxExpo. They are joining RedHat, Corel, Netscape, Caldera and the rest of the usual suspects endorsing the open source model. They are now officially releasing a MIPs port of Linux to their FTP site, and have officially scored a couple of Cool Points in my book.

Kenneth R. Kinder has written an editorial entitled The Purer OS. He speaks about an issue that has manifested itself in many ways- the desire for Linux to be 100% completely free, from the kernel to every instruction that gets executed on it. I disagree with this one, but it is a major issue that needs to be addressed. So read what he has to say and decide for yourself. Should everything on Linux be free, or is there room for closed source competition on an open source OS?

zCat sent us a link to this ZD Net Link. It's a pretty fair piece on some ways; it discusses why Linux caught on when it did, but it also says Linux's 15 minutes are up, due to lack of clear direction. I disagree- Linux's direction is only up. Netscape & Caldera have thrown muscle behind it, the newbie UI issues are being ironed out as KDE and Gnome become more practical. Things are looking peachy.

Caldera Inc. recently reduced the price of Netscape Fasttrack for OpenLinux to $49. Fasttrack offers interesting features like server-side Java and Javascript, log analysis and encryption. A quick look at Netscape's online store shows that Netscape itselfs sells the same entry-level webserver for $295 on other unices.
Some other news on Caldera: according to the KDE homepage Caldera Openlinux 1.2 ships with KDE, but I couldn't find details on this. Anyone got more info?

Bruce Perens sent us a bunch of info about the status of the Linux Standard Base System. I'm running it as a feature to get some feedback on it. The LSB is definately one of the most important issues facing Linux these days; especially if we want it to continue to grow. Bruce also says "We would like to discuss the following proposal in BOF sessions at both Linux Expo and Linux Kongress. Nothing about the proposal is cast in concrete until after those meetings."

Steve Rojem sent us a Sm@rt Reseller article where you can read about Netscape and Linux. The main point of the article is that other companies haven't joined in. Well, Corel seems to be making a step with their VNC, but Oracle and Informix are holding back. The negative comments are typical: Accountability (unfair because RedHat and Caldera will support Linux systems) Demand (Considering there are as many as 10 million Linux Boxes, I question this) and Lack of Central Marketing Push (a valid pointy haired reason, but certainly not a real reason). Mike Saranga, Informix's senior VP, says they do 16 ports right now, but won't do another unless it makes sense. Considering Linux is the fastest growing Unix, and soon will be the largest *nix, I wonder if it will "Make Sense" in time to give Informix a chance against Mysql, mSQL and PostgreSQL. Is it to late for the normal Commercial Databases on Linux? I know you guys use databases... what do you think?

An anonymous reader scored this one. Read this story about another round of bad PR for MS. This time, Caldera CEO Bryan Sparks claims that MS is preventing box makers from shipping other OSs. Dell spokesman says that there is a lack of demand for Linux. I have a Dell, and I will demand Linux next time I buy a machine. If Dell won't do it, I can think of several companies that will.