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Fairfax IT: Blue Moves, Caldera Stirs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 4, 1999

Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, talks about the company’s
plans for future distributions.

“IBM’s endorsement last week of Linux should come as no surprise
to anyone who has followed the evolution of the open source
movement. But it seems the market does not follow these things very
closely.”

“The ever-decreasing orbits of IBM and the open source community
are well reported. Starting with its decision to license the
dominant Apache Web server software for its Websphere range, IBM
has been learning the ropes of this new business model with an
alacrity that outpaces smaller rival, Microsoft.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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