Majority of enterprise system and software vendors including
AMD, Borland Software Corporation, Computer Associates,
Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
NEC, Progress Software, and SAP, support effort to create
standard Linux platform.
LINDON, Utah, CURITIBA, Brazil, NUREMBERG, Germany, and BRISBANE, Calif. 05/30/2002 Linux Industry leaders
Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), Conectiva S.A.,
SUSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux, Inc., today announced the
organization of UnitedLinux, a new initiative that will
streamline Linux development and certification around a
global, uniform distribution of Linux designed for business.
UnitedLinux addresses enterprise customers' need for a
standard, business-focused Linux distribution that is
certified to work across hardware and software platforms,
accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Under
terms of the agreement, the four companies will collaborate
on the development of one common core Linux operating
environment, called UnitedLinux software. The four partners
will each bundle value added products and services with the
UnitedLinux operating system and the resulting offering will
be marketed and sold by each of the four partners under
their own brands.
Nearly every vendor supplying a piece of the technology
infrastructure used by businesses has expressed support for
UnitedLinux, including systems and software vendors AMD,
Borland Software Corporation, Computer Associates, Fujitsu
Siemens, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC,
Progress Software, and SAP. Independent hardware and
software vendors spend considerable effort certifying their
products and services on individual Linux distributions to
ensure product compatibility for their customers.
UnitedLinux will significantly diminish the number of
distributions that vendors are asked to certify and will
provide a true standards-based Linux operating environment.
Customers Benefit Through Unity
According to research firm IDC, a 2001 survey of 800
North American and Western European companies found that 40%
of the respondents were either using or testing Linux in
their organizations. UnitedLinux will help further speed
enterprise adoption of Linux by providing businesses with a
greater choice in the number of applications and hardware
certified to work on the uniform version of Linux. Customers
will also benefit from the global sales, localization,
education, support and services that all four UnitedLinux
vendors will collectively provide.
The collaboration of the four leading Linux companies
will result in an enterprise Linux offering, which is truly
global by virtue of the companies' ability to provide local
language support, training and professional services, in
addition to the support of strategic partners. UnitedLinux
will provide one unified Linux code base for IBM's complete
eServer product line, AMD's current 32-bit and forthcoming
64-bit AMD Athlon(tm) and AMD Opteron(tm) processor-based platforms,
and Intel's x86 32-bit and Itanium processor family
platforms. UnitedLinux supports LSB, Li18nux, and GB18030
standards, as well as enabling installations in English,
German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional
Chinese languages.
In addition UnitedLinux unleashes a massive research and
development organization for Linux in the enterprise.
Effectively, the four companies involved in this process
will shift dollars and resources once allocated to creating
and maintaining custom Linux operating environments and
divert them to new R&D on Linux enterprise software.
UnitedLinux is dedicated to bolstering the enterprise
readiness of the platform, but in the same collaborative
spirit from which Linux was founded and continues to
flourish.
Participation and Availability
While today's announcement outlines the founding members
of UnitedLinux, the initiative is open for additional Linux
companies to participate. The four partners currently plan
to each offer their own server products based on UnitedLinux
by the end of 2002. For additional information on
UnitedLinux, contact Caldera, Conectiva, SUSE or Turbolinux
or go to http://www.unitedlinux.com/.
About UnitedLinux
UnitedLinux is a standards-based, worldwide Linux
solution targeted at the business user and developed by
Caldera, Conectiva, SUSE and Turbolinux. Designed to be an
enterprise-class, industry-standard Linux operating system,
UnitedLinux provides a single stable, uniform platform for
application development, certification, and deployment, and
allows Linux vendors, Independent Software Vendors,
Independent Hardware Vendors, and Original Equipment Makers
to support a single high value Linux offering. For more
information, go to http://www.unitedlinux.com/.
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