“A fourth major Linux seller has released a version of its
operating system for Intel’s upcoming Itanium chip. Caldera on
Friday posted an early version of its OpenLinux product designed
for the Itanium chip, the first member of a 64-bit chip family from
Intel designed to compete with Sun Microsystems’ UltraSparc,
Hewlett-Packard’s PA-RISC, SGI’s MIPS, IBM’s Power and Compaq’s
Alpha.”
“Intel is backing Linux heavily to be one of three mainstream
operating systems for the delayed chip. … Caldera’s biggest
competitors, TurboLinux, Red Hat and SuSE, have released test
versions of Linux for Itanium.”
“Caldera, with its recent merger announcement with Unix company
Santa Cruz Operation, will have a tighter relationship with IA-64
chips than most Linux companies. SCO’s UnixWare, along with IBM’s
AIX, is a key component of the “Monterey-64″ version of Linux that
will run on Itanium.”