3rd party components needed to get HP-UX, AIX, Solaris 3rd party Java applications ported to Linux From a technical standpoint however Caldera OpenLinux really shone during the Ransom Love years. Their commercial bundling solution continued to work. They had a powerful low bug (by Linux standards) distribution that worked well on a wide range of hardware. They charged a great deal relative to other distributions and were able to generate a very strong profit. Red Hat pulled way ahead of them in terms of US sales and on the global sales front they trailed SUSE and TurboLinux as well, but financially due to the DR-DOS settlement they were the strongest of all the Linux distributions. Known releases (incomplete): Caldera OpenLinux Lite/Base/Standard(/Deluxe) 1.0 (1997) with Linux kernel 2.0.25 Caldera OpenLinux Lite/Base/Standard 1.1 (1997) Caldera OpenLinux Lite/Base/Standard 1.2 (1998-04-17) Caldera Systems OpenLinux Lite/Base 1.3 (1998-09-28) with Linux kernel 2.0.35 Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.4 Caldera Systems OpenLinux 2.2 (1999-04-19) with Linux kernel 2.2.xx Caldera Systems OpenLinux eDesktop/eServer 2.3 (1999) with Linux kernel 2.2.10 Caldera Systems OpenLinux eServer 2.3.1 Caldera Systems OpenLinux eDesktop/eBuilder 2.4 Caldera Systems OpenLinux eBuilder 3.0 Caldera International OpenLinux Workstation/Server 3.1 (2001) with Linux kernel 2.4.2 Caldera International OpenLinux Workstation/Server 3.1.1 (2002) with Linux kernel 2.4.xx Other products: Caldera NetWare for Linux 1.0 (1998) United Linux Caldera Systems quickly found itself in a classic business problem where the interests of the existing business conflicted with their growth model. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was a much larger company than Caldera Systems had been, and in fact of the $71 million of revenue 90% was from the SCO side of the business. Moreover, Caldera Systems costs $4 in marketing to generate a $1 in sales, SCO was mature and sold itself (mainly to repeat customers). The VAR relationship was even more problematic. Caldera Systems had always sold the "Linux is SCO but better" model and had done everything possible to make the transition from SCO to Caldera Systems relatively seamless. Each of the 14,000 SCO resellers made much more from each SCO sale than from sales of Caldera Systems, so they were not anxious to move existing customers from SCO to Linux; and even those, that were supportive of Linux, saw no strong value add for Caldera Systems and often sold Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Caldera Systems had two businesses in direct competition, one, which was a shrinking, but still profitable Unix business,