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From: holt@jacana (Adam Holt)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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Date: 3 May 1996 10:26:59 GMT
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OK, MORE COMMON MAN APPS.... (SCO too pricey? Caldera offers $250 WordPerfect)
: > >] [...] Operating systems dont 'sell', applications do.
PC Week Online May 2, 1996 7:00 p.m. ET
CALDERA OFFERS NET-READY BUSINESS APPLICATIONS FOR LINUX
By Lisa Wirthman
_________________________________________________________________
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Caldera Inc. is shipping a suite of Internet-ready
business applications for the Linux version of Unix that will let
users build Web documents or share data across the Internet, company
officials announced this week at Internet World here.
The Caldera Internet Office Suite 1.0 includes Internet-enabled
versions of Corel Corp.'s WordPerfect 6.0 for Unix, NCD Software
Corp.'s Z-Mail E-mail package, X Engineering Software Systems Corp.'s
NExS Spreadsheet and Metro Link Inc.'s Executive Motif Libraries that
have been ported to Linux, company officials said.
Linux is a version of Unix that runs on Intel PCs and is distributed
free of charge. Caldera has developed a GUI, utilities, applications
and services that extend Linux.
The Caldera version of WordPerfect enables users to create HTML
documents with URL links that can be published as World Wide Web pages
from the Caldera Desktop, said Ransom Love, vice president of
marketing and sales for Caldera, in Orem, Utah.
Caldera NExS spreadsheet users can update cells remotely via the
Internet as well as export tables in HTML, so they can be accessed
through the Internet or private intranets, Love said.
Z-Mail offers full SMTP and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
support that enables Internet distribution of E-mail, said Love. All
of the applications in the suite are also dynamically linked to the
Motif libraries, he said.
Caldera will also ship next month the Caldera Solutions CD, a
collection of third-party applications from independent vendors that
have been ported to Linux, said Love.
The Caldera Internet Office Suite is available directly from the
company for $329. Caldera's WordPerfect and Motif Executive Libraries
are also available as a separate bundle for $250.
More information can be obtained at Caldera's Web site at
http://www.caldera.com.
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JF
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