“Recent deals with IBM, Fujitsu, and the wooing of Wall
Street underwriters suggest Caldera stock offering may be soon to
come…“
“Caldera Systems would be the second Linux distribution to offer
shares to the public. Another Linux company, LinuxOne, has already
filed for an IPO of its own. But LinuxOne, founded this spring, is
nowhere near the stature of other companies such as Red Hat, SuSE,
and Caldera. For all the revving of engines on its current webpage,
the company’s Linux product–still in beta–has hardly left the
garage.”
“But the possibility of Caldera joining Red Hat as the second
public company to sell distributions of the open source operating
system is of another magnitude entirely. Caldera’s OpenLinux 2.3,
for example, is being heralded as the company’s “fastest selling
Linux product” since the decision to make Linux products in
September 1998 (the year Caldera Systems, Inc. was born). Caldera
has also emphasized its product as a business solution, helping it
carve out a niche in the nascent Linux marketplace.”