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From:	 Larissa Evans <levans@caldera.com>
To:	 corbet@lwn.net
Subject: Caldera Acquisition of SCO press release
Date:	 Mon, 7 May 2001 15:15:00

 
Jonathan,

Press Only Contact:
Nancy Pomeroy		
Caldera International, Inc.		
nancy@caldera.com		
Phone: (801) 765-4999		
Fax: (801) 765-1313		


CALDERA COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF TWO SCO DIVISIONS; 
BECOMES LARGEST LINUX COMPANY IN THE WORLD 
WITH GLOBAL SERVICES/SUPPORT
Positions Scalable Linux on UNIX as the Alternative Business Platform
 
OREM, UT - May 7, 2001 - Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) today announced
its completion of the acquisition of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO)
(Nasdaq: SCOC) Server Software and Professional Services divisions, UnixWare
and OpenServer technologies. Caldera International, Inc., thus becomes
the largest Linux company in the world with sales, support and marketing
representation in 82 countries. In addition, Caldera now leads the world's
largest Linux channel with 15,000+ resellers worldwide. Application and
hardware solution providers will now have a single Linux company that
can facilitate the marketing and delivery of these business solutions
to all major markets globally. 
"The goal of Caldera International is to make Linux on industry standard
hardware the alternative business platform," said Ransom Love, CEO of
Caldera International. "With the completion of this acquisition, Caldera
will be the only company to offer a standard unified platform that allows
Linux applications to scale to the enterprise utilizing the power, maturity
and stability of UNIX. It's a first..."
Unification
Caldera's "Unifying UNIX with Linux for business" strategy unifies:
1. The existing UNIX business channel with Linux
2. The large, robust UNIX applications base with Linux 
3. The largest existing UNIX customer base in the world with Linux.
Industry leaders have caught Caldera's vision and are leveraging Caldera's
unified UNIX and Linux technologies and products to meet their own end
user and data center needs.

Caldera Completes Acquisition of SCO Divisions				            Page 2
"Caldera's acquisition of SCO's Server Software and Professional Services
divisions significantly expands my ability to service customers," said
Quentin Krengel, president of Krengel Technology, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
 "The new company offers greater product, support and services. I'm pleased
that the reseller channel is going to play a central role in the success
of Caldera International."
Caldera will focus on three main business lines to meet the needs of small-to-m
edium size businesses, replicated sites, data centers and the departmental
needs of the enterprise.
ˇ	Development  Products - OpenLinux Workstation 3.1, Development tools,
Professional Services, Standards Based
ˇ	Deployment Products - Open UNIX, eServer, OpenServer, OpenLinux Server
ˇ	Management Products - Caldera Volution, Volution Online
Caldera's "Unifying UNIX with Linux for business" strategy is validated
by their existing customers and partners including *Compaq, Sun, Computer
Associates, IBM, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Novell, Sybase, Informix and
HON Industries.
Caldera Global Services and Support
Caldera International support centers are located in North America, Europe
and the Pacific Rim and are staffed by highly skilled technical support
engineers. Caldera Global Support offers 24x7 enterprise and local language
support with a broad portfolio of options customized to meet the needs
of partners and end users.
In addition, Caldera's Global Professional Services will assist customers
in developing and deploying unified UNIX and Linux solutions through consulting
 and custom engineering services.  For more information please visit www.calder
a.com. 

*ATTENTION EDITORS: 
For more industry quotes, please visit
http://www.caldera.com/partners/industry/quotes.html.


Caldera International, Inc.
Caldera International (Nasdaq: CALD) is the leader in "Unifying UNIX with
Linux for Business." Caldera was the first to create the "Develop-on,
Deploy-on, Manage" strategy for Linux-based clients and servers. Based
in Orem, UT, Caldera has representation in 82 countries and has 15,000+
resellers worldwide. For more information on Caldera products and services,
visit http://www.caldera.com.


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Caldera Completes Acquisition of SCO Divisions				            Page 3

The Santa Cruz Operation  is a registered trademark of Tarantella, Inc.
in the USA and other countries.  UNIX is a registered trademark of The
Open Group in the US and other countries.  Caldera, SCO, and SCO OpenServer
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera Systems, Inc. or Caldera
International, Inc. in the US and other countries.  Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds in the US and other countries.  All other
products, services, and companies, are trademarks, registered trademarks
or servicemarks of their respective owners in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Caldera and "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business" are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Caldera Systems, Inc. All other products, services,
companies, events and publications are trademarks, registered trademarks
or servicemarks of their respective owners in the U.S. and/or other countries.

IBM, the e-business logo, ThinkPad and xSeries are trademarks of IBM Corporatio
n or its wholly owned subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.


NonStop is a registered trademark of Compaq Computer Corporation.

LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States
and other countries.

Forward Looking Statements
The statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties.  The Company wishes to advise readers
that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements.  Those factors
include the failure of the products described above to operate as designed
due to incompatibility with some platforms or other defects; our reliance
on developers in the open source community; new and changing technologies
and customer acceptance of those technologies; the Company's ability to
compete effectively with other companies; failure of our brand to achieve
the broad recognition necessary to succeed; unenforceability of the GNU
general public license; our reliance on third party developers of components
of our software offerings; claims of infringement of third-party intellectual
property rights; and disruption in the Company's distribution sales channel.
These and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially,
 are also discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-Q.



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Nancy Pomeroy
Caldera Systems