In an industry swarming with stuffed penguins and Red Hats, Caldera Systems Inc seems like a quiet achiever. Rather than making huge acquisitions, as Red Hat Inc has done, or planning a frontal assault on the consumer desktop and applications space, as Corel Corp has committed itself to doing, Caldera has been quietly mining the ISV and VAR space.
Nobody buys operating systems.
They buy a solution. Available now are Caldera's eServer, which can be customized to deploy and manage applications remotely, and eBuilder, a Java- based component framework for building those applications. The company is also a pioneer in training and certification, helping systems integrators re-educate their CNEs or MCSEs with equivalent qualifications in Linux. We'd like to see the LSB expand. The Linux distribution business is dead.