Caldera announced the availability of OpenLinux-64 R3.1, a Linux system-based server and workstation product designed for 64-bit Intel Itanium processors. Utilizing 64-bit technology, OpenLinux-64 brings a new level of stability, scalability and robustness to the Linux platform the company says. OpenLinux-64 is licensed on a per system basis. No restriction exists on the number of users who use or attach to the system. Licenses for regular OpenLinux 64 kits are available for $599; not-for-resale versions are $49.
Caldera Presents OpenLinux-64 R3.1 for Itanium
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Not that I use Linux on a regular basis anymore these days, but OpenLinux is a bit under-rated. I always here a bunch of hoop-la over RH/SuSE/Deb/Mandrake and zip on OpenLinux. I’ve tested the latest greatest of all the afforementioned and Caldera’s got ’em all beat on userfriendliness and stability IMNSHO. I guess their licensing policies don’t agree with the Free-as-in-Stallman crowd. Best of luck to them on the new platform!
That’s fucking wierd. How are they working that? I guess they could if they were careful to only modify/enhance code that was non-GPL (ie. theirs). I’m too lazy and uncaring at the moment to actually research the issue at their site. My attitude makes a lot of sense for me, since it is unlikely that I will even see a 64-bit machine within the next 2-3 years. The Open prefix seems oddly out of place with Caldera’s new stance on things, though.
Well, I have never used it, but I have lost all respect for Caldera since Ransom Love came out about a year ago, after buying SCO saying that the problem with the company was that Linux was not comercialy viable…..that sort of pisses off your customers and the comunity as a whole….if you were pissed off at a company would you give them kudos? I think most of the hostility to the business modle came from the fact that they created the GUI installer and other companies took that idea and made one themselfs…..I bet Love thinks he was cheated.
I have no respect for a man or a company that turns its back on the community that helped create it just so they can try to turn their crapy business into a successful one…..sorry but no abount of casting blame can make up for a bad business man.
Linux ISN’T commercially viable. That is commercially viable ENOUGH (for some).
The way Linux distro’s work make it tough for any one company to get big $$$ from it alone. That has a lot of GOOD with it, but some BAD as well. As a CEO of a company you HAVE to look down every venue to pick up some more $$ or you’ll go broke. So your pissed why? Because the the CEO of a LINUX company is not happy with the amount of money its generating?? Thats stupid. ITS HIS JOB NEVER TO BE HAPPY WIHT LINUX’s COMMERCIAL VIABILITY. Thats why they are trying to IMPROVE it. And thru the use of NON-GPL licenseing they can make improvements their competitors do not have. If you don’t like that you should be using Debian, but its no reason to get irate. Caldera has funded AS MUCH IF NOT MORE GPL’d software than any other Linux house. Instead of believing everything you read on slashdot, you should download their distro and try it out. I know when I’m trying to decide whether to use a product or not, the CEO’s philosophy from that company is never factored into my descicion. . . but I’m funny that way.
BTW I use SUSE…and Red Hat developes more GPL than calders, infact ALL RH’s Products are GPLed…oh and they are viable unlike caldera.
on your comment how a CEO has to look at diffrent venues to get $$ well I am all for that but do not Blame one part of your business that works for everyone else, espesialy at the cost of community support.
CEOs are out for 2 things, $$ and their own butt. if they can not get the $$ then they have to save their butt…Love did this by blaming a part of his product line. and if Linux was to blame for Caldera’s bad times, then explain to me why they have not come back after they moved over to SCO kenel and went more proprietary/per seat? one thing remains constant in all this, Ransome Love.