After Caldera's four-to-one stock buy back, it looked like firm was out of financial trouble. That has proven untrue, but CEO Ransom Love remains optimistic about sales of firm's Linux and Unix systems. [Linux.com]
Former Caldera Systems is center of UnitedLinux consortium, but normal Unix customers, small-mid size businesses, are its main income. Heavy turnover in SCO sales organization makes it hard to get firm's attention. [Baseline]
Unsurprisingly, some struggling firms see Linux as a ride out of the dark tunnel of flat growth and into the bright light of prosperity. Executives at SCO, former Santa Cruz Operation, are debating if Linux is salvation. [Forbes]
The Santa Cruz Operation found a savior in Linux software maker Caldera Systems, who will buy SCO's server software and professional services divisions, with total $25 million sales, $10 million losses, in fiscal Q3. [Forbes]
SCO Unix specialists with the full product line: OpenServer, UnixWare, Vision Family, and related third party products such as Lone-TAR Backup Software.
Caldera International Inc. used its GeoFORUM conference in Las Vegas to announce it will change name to The SCO Group, Rename does not mean firm is moving away from Linux but is building on brand recognition of SCO products. [eWeek]
SCO is working on new platform, SCOx, it hopes will drive next generation of applications on networks and servers, across Unix, Linux, for 2 of firm's core customer groups, replicated sites, small- to medium-sized businesses. [eWeek]
