Caldera Volution Manager Seizes Network World's Annual Category-Breaker Award

Business Wire, Nov 19, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001

First Linux-Based Package to Combine Multiple Single-Issue

Utilities in the Areas of Remote Health Monitoring, Hardware

Inventory and Software Distribution Wins Award as One of

the Year's Most Innovative Products

Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq:CALD) announced today that its directory-enabled distributed management product, Caldera Volution Manager, has won Network World's prestigious annual Category-Breaker Award. The Category-Breaker awards are selected by Network World's top columnists and recognize their six favorite products of the year.

"We're honored to have Volution Manager praised yet again," said Ransom Love, CEO and president, Caldera International. "Like other Caldera Linux products which have won several awards, Volution Manager captured the Best Network Server Application Award earlier this year as well as three additional accolades. Volution Manager's ability to provide secure, remote management for all major Linux distributions sets it apart."

"Hierarchical management - for Linux! That's not only a category-breaker, it's a category-maker," writes Dave Kearns, a former network administrator and regular columnist for Network World. "The important thing is that Volution marks almost a "coming of age" for Linux. The management utilities your CIO wants to see for business-critical operating systems are now available for Linux in a policy-driven, directory-enabled package."

Caldera Volution Manager is the first Linux-based package to combine the features of multiple single-issue utilities in the areas of remote health monitoring, hardware inventory and software distribution. It includes, among other benefits, a secure Web-based management console, an electronic software distribution to install and remove applications on remote Linux systems, hardware and software inventory, and a Linux printer configuration. It can be purchased for the suggested price of US $2995. International versions are available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

To read more about Caldera Volution Manager's selection as a category-breaker, please visit: http://www.nwfusion.com/best2001/wares/wares.html#kearns.

Additional information regarding Caldera, Caldera Volution Manager and other Caldera products, please visit http://www.caldera.com.

Caldera International, Inc.

Caldera International (Nasdaq:CALD) 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, UT, 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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