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PR: Caldera Enters Partnership with Conectiva
Caldera International, Inc., building upon its recently
announced UnitedLinux partnership with Conectiva, today announced a
comprehensive partnership with Conectiva, Inc. that will expand
Caldera’s presence in Brazil. Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Conectiva
is the leading provider of Linux solutions and services to the
Latin American market.
Under terms of the agreement, Conectiva’s sales force and
reseller channels will sell Caldera’s products and services.
Specifically, Caldera will provide the Volution product and
services family of messaging and systems management solutions, as
well as the company’s Open UNIX and OpenServer UNIX solutions into
Brazil, with future possibilities of extending the relationship to
the rest of the Latin American market. In addition, Conectiva and
Caldera will partner to provide customer support, training and
professional services for the companies’ mutual customers.
According to IDC, Linux server software experienced 24 percent
growth in Brazil last year, compared to 21 percent growth for
Microsoft Windows server software.
“Expanding our relationship with Conectiva was a natural
extension of the UnitedLinux initiative,” said Darl McBride,
president and CEO of Caldera. “With 70 percent of the Linux market
share in Latin America, Conectiva is in a better position to more
economically and efficiently service the business customers in this
important market. This also facilitates business with customers and
partners who need to seamlessly deploy business solutions
throughout the Americas by facilitating a united product, service
and support model.”
“This contract is extremely important for both companies,” said
Sandro Nunes Henrique, Conectiva’s director. “Working together, we
will provide customers with greater products and services than our
two companies could have provided separately. This way, IT
executives will benefit with more confidence in their technology
and the companies providing that technology. We are making it
easier for decision making with regards to their systems in
Brazil.”
“As one of Caldera’s main business partners in Latin America,
OS&T is very excited about this new partnership with Caldera
and Conectiva,” said Rosangela Martins, president of OS&T
Informatica Ltda, a long-time Caldera reseller in Brazil. “Through
this relationship we can more easily harness the strengths of Linux
and UNIX for our customers.”