Caldera takes Linux to new heights

NEWS Caldera Systems has launched a raft of products aimed at making Linux a viable option from thin clients right up to the largest data centres. Caldera will use last year's acquisition of SCO to scale Linux further into the high-end environment. By combining Linux Kernel technology and SCO's Unix operating system, Caldera believes it can give users the best of both worlds - the reliability of Unix with the ability to run Linux applications. In another release, called OpenLinux Workstation, it gives developers the chance to write new applications in the Linux environment and run the applications on the more scalable Unix. Caldera claims this will also help its existing Unix customers get more out of their platforms. Caldera chief executive Ransom Love told silicon.com the releases would "basically take Linux from the thin client all the way up to the data centre". He said that Caldera, through its acquisition of SCO, which completed on 7 May, was now the largest Linux company in the industry. He also denied that its strategy of running Linux as an application environment on top of Unix put it in competition with IBM. "SCO's Unix always ran in an Intel environment. So while IBM has to re-compile Linux for its non Intel-based operating system flavours, Caldera's SCO Unix is a much more natural fit." For related news, see
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