Re: Caldera Network Desktop (was:Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries)

From: Jerry O'Brien <jobrien_at_icis.on.ca>
Date: 1996/09/09
Message-ID: <3234DD19.849_at_icis.on.ca>#1/1


Jost Boekemeier wrote:
>
> In article <50vsqa$hl2_at_ibridge.iohk.com>,
> jwalters_at_igate.iohk.com (Jay Walters) writes:
> >References: <322C8566.3382B8E3_at_fc.net> <50imb6$q60_at_library.airnews.net> <50ncu9$644_at_news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
> >Distribution:
> >
> >No problem. Buy Linux, get support, that's what I said. I didn't say
>
> I never ment to start a flame war or something like that, but why do
> you think the support from Microsoft is much better than the support
> from Caldera?
>
> >get a real person to support it when you need it - and for which you'll
>
> That is what Caldera stands for. Ray Noorda (former CEO of Novell, Inc.)
> founded the company in 1984 to bring an "easy to use" network-aware software
> on the market and to support and sell it via internet and through traditional
> channels. The Caldera Network Desktop is based on the Linux Operating System.
>
> >and tell me there is something without bugs - for sale or free.
>
> That is what about 500,000 people on the internet stand for. Those people
> who write in linux.dev.kernel and other internet-groups, report bugs,
> approuvements (wrong spelling) and test the new kernels which are made
> available once per week through FTP.
>
> Once a kernel is stable (i.e. no more bugs are reported), it is frozen
> with a version number of x.[0,2,4,6,8].x and devellopment continues
> to bring new features into linux with a version number x.k+1.x
> For example the current stable linux-kernel is 2.0.15 and the devellopment
> kernel is 2.1.0.
>
> I don't think Microsoft has 500,000 beta-testers that can look into the
> code of WindowsNT and report bugs via internet.
>
> Yes, every new software has bugs, but it is fair to say that Linux
> is much more stable than other software due to its special devellopment
> procedure, where *everyone* can look into the code and report bugs so that
> these bugs will be fixed immediatly.
>
> The task of Caldera is to take a stable kernel, add software the business
> people need (like Word Perfect, Netware, Databases, Wabi etc.) and to sell and
> support "their" software.
>
> See: http://www.caldera.com
>
> Bye,
> Jost
Who Cares? Received on Mon Sep 09 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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