Caldera and Toshiba Sign Comprehensive Support Agreement; All Caldera Software to be Certified on Toshiba Hardware

Business Wire, June 11, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2001

Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), the global leader in "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business," Monday announced its engineering services agreement with Toshiba Europe GmbH Computersystems, a market leader in mobile computing.

By terms of this worldwide agreement, all of Caldera's Linux and UNIX software products will be certified for Toshiba servers, desktops and notebooks. This includes OpenLinux, SCO OpenServer and Open UNIX 8, Caldera International's recently announced product that unifies Linux and UNIX.

"For Toshiba, the certification of Caldera's UNIX and Linux is an important step towards building a comprehensive IT infrastructure support system for customers and is especially applicable to the server business," said Stefan Braum, Key Account Server manager for Toshiba Europe Inc. Computersystems, Germany/Austria.

"Certifying for Caldera ensures that our clients can place their applications on sufficiently tested system platforms with maximum stability. Additionally, we can provide optimal advice for individual solutions."

"This arrangement confirms the progress Caldera's operating systems are making with PCs on an international scale," said Steve Canova, director OEM sales, Caldera International.

"Working as a partner with Toshiba creates a broader selling platform for our channel partners and allows customers to run Caldera OpenLinux and UNIX on hardware, especially notebooks, from a worldwide market leader."

Caldera International Inc.

Caldera International 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, 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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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.