Caldera Ships Powerful Linux Internet eBusiness Solution; OpenLinux eBuilder — Enterprise and ASP Editions

Business Wire, April 17, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000

eBuilder Enables Open, Scalable, Java(R)-Based Business-to-Business

and Business-to-Consumer eCommerce Solutions Using IBM WebSphere(TM)

and Evergreen ECential(TM)3.0

Caldera Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CALD), the "Linux for eBusiness" leader, today announced the availability of OpenLinux eBuilder, a 100% open standards eBusiness solution that includes IBM's WebSphere application server and Evergreen's ECential 3.0 Open Commerce Framework.

OpenLinux eBuilder enables existing business processes to be re-engineered for the Internet across all supported hardware platforms and database systems. This greatly reduces the cost of eCommerce solutions implementation for businesses deploying new and legacy systems, while increasing margins for VARs, systems integrators and electronic Solutions Providers (eSPs). eBuilder builds on the foundation of OpenLinux eServer, a thin, component-based operating system that makes Linux servers easy to install, configure and manage remotely through Webmin.

Included in OpenLinux eBuilder is Evergreen's ECential 3.0, which delivers robust, open standards-based (Java, XML) distributed eCommerce services and components that enable high performance solutions for enterprise or Application Service Provider (ASP) eBusiness sites.

IBM's WebSphere delivers the industry's leading open standard application server for secure (SSL) Web server applications, supporting both 56 and 128-bit encryption. Together, OpenLinux, WebSphere and ECential deliver the most powerful open standards platform for building the next generation of eBusiness solutions.

OpenLinux eBuilder strongly positions Caldera as the leader in open standards-based eCommerce services and components that ideally leverage the OpenLinux platform for distributed, manageable, and low cost/high performance eBusiness solutions.

By providing open standards-based eCommerce building blocks and infrastructure to systems integrators, developers and consultants, OpenLinux eBuilder becomes an ideal platform to help enable customized and integrated business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) solutions.

Key Benefits

--  Over 12 eCommerce components (merchandise, order management,
    shopping, payment, shipping, tax, membership/profile, order
    processing and more) to build reliable, highly-scalable commerce
    sites

--  Web-based management and reporting tools that enable local and
    remote management

--  Over 100 JavaBeans(TM) eCommerce services to help build JSP HTML
    eCommerce solutions and business logic

--  High-performance Linux platform specifically tuned for server
    grade hardware (Pentium Xeon, Pentium III, Pentium II and Pentium
    Pro processors)

--  Integrates with existing business applications, processes and
    logic, based on open standards (the openness of Linux with open
    development standards including Java, XML, DHTML and JSP)

--  Secure, scalable and reliable eCommerce platform based on the
    combined strengths of a world class Web and application server
    with the only server-optimized Linux platform

--  High return on investment and quick ROI sample store fronts and
    reusable technology enabling quick deployment of new sites

--  eMarketing Services to establish and track customer relationships
    over the Web

"With over 30% of the Internet running on Linux today, it only makes sense to produce a product that allows businesses to focus their resources there, without throwing out everything they already have," said Ransom Love, president and CEO of Caldera Systems. "Now our channel can provide customized, secure eCommerce solutions built on the OpenLinux bedrock of reliability and low cost."

"Caldera's OpenLinux platform and vision of Linux for eBusiness represented an ideal opportunity to bring Linux industry developers and integrators together with the most robust set of open standard eCommerce services and components available," said David V. Clare, executive vice president, Evergreen Internet. "Our experience shows that eCommerce requires easy integration, customization and extensive adaptability.

"What better way to offer customers open standard 'building blocks' without boxing them into a 'proprietary only' corner. Our commitment to open standards and distributed eCommerce services ideally matches the power and future of Linux. We see OpenLinux eBuilder as the best high performance, low cost platform for 100% Open Standard eBusiness solutions."

"The eCommerce market is growing rapidly and will reach 2.5 trillion dollars by 2004," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of System Software Research for IDC. "Our studies show that Linux is often being used to support infrastructure applications. It is being selected for its reliability and its low cost. Caldera's eBuilder can help organizations utilize this platform as part of their eCommerce infrastructure."

"The IBM WebSphere Web application software platform is the most comprehensive family of application servers and tools for Linux," said Jocelyne Attal, vice president of Marketing and Strategy, IBM Transformation and Integration Software. "Caldera's OpenLinux eBuilder builds on the capabilities of the WebSphere family to deliver e-commerce solutions for next-generation e-business, particularly in the burgeoning Linux space."