Indeed, Linuxcare has always supported the Apache Web server, software that delivers Web pages over the network to Net surfers, a spokesperson for the company said. And the company employs Andrew Tridgell, a major developer involved in the Samba software that lets Linux servers behave like Windows NT file and print servers. One of the big competitors will also be IBM, which has embraced the Apache software itself, Weiss said. Red Hat, however, is reasonably well positioned to expand, given the company's successful initial public offering. Caldera Systems plans its own IPO, but sources familiar with the company's plans said a hoped-for date of this month has been pushed out into early 2000.
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Caldera Systems, though, still has to deal with the fact that Red Hat has much better brand name recognition, said Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst at International Data Corporation . Inc. All rights reserved.