Caldera’s Volution Online benefits from bayMountain

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Author: JT Smith

Richmond, V.A., July 16, 2001 – bayMountain, a leading provider of complex Web and application infrastructure services, today announced that Caldera has chosen bayMountain to provision, and host the infrastructure for the online open source management service, Volution Online. www.volutiononline.com is the Caldera 24 x 7 on-line software management portion of the Caldera Volution systems and software management product offering.

To meet the needs of the site?s highly complex architecture, bayMountain designed a custom infrastructure configuration that employs an eight-server cluster ? including web application, database, and file servers. The cluster ensures redundancy and scalability on all levels. The cluster also allows the site to benefit from large file system support, load balancing and support for multiple software and technology platforms. In addition, Caldera is able to leverage bayMountain?s extensive experience in supporting Linux and Open Source deployments.

“Our goal with Volution is to help system administrators manage multiple Linux servers and workstations,” said Reg Broughton, senior vice president at Caldera. “By leveraging bayMountain?s managed hosting services, we have added Volution Online to include a pro-active open source software/application management service and accelerated the delivery of a more complete solution.”

?Caldera?s Volution and our managed hosting solutions actually support a common goal – to reduce costs, save time and increase the efficiency of customers, ” said Dr. Mark Wensell, president and founder of bayMountain. “It makes sense for companies to benefit from both of these management resources.”

About Caldera Systems, Inc.

Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) is a “Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business” technology leader in developing and marketing successful Linux-based business solutions, including its award-winning OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support-with free 30-day phone support and on-site consulting. Caldera OpenLearning Providers offer exceptional distribution-neutral Linux training and certification based on Linux Professional Institute (LPI(TM)) certification standards. Caldera Systems supports the open source community and is a leader in, and advocate of, Linux Standard Base (LSB(TM)) and LPI(TM).

Caldera, Inc. was co-founded in 1994 by Ransom Love. Caldera Systems, Inc. was founded by Ransom Love in 1998 to develop Linux-based business solutions. Based in Orem, UT, Caldera Systems has offices and 1000+ resellers worldwide. For more information, see www.calderasystems.com or in the US call 888-GO-Linux (888-465-4689).

About bayMountain

bayMountain is a leading provider of web and application infrastructure services, for mid-size companies with enterprise-level needs. bayMountain offers one source for the complete infrastructure value chain – from data center facilities and hardware to operating system and application layer support. bayMountain specializes in creating custom configurations for individual customer needs. The company does this quickly and cost-effectively through the combination of its exclusive bayCluster methodology and appFusion platform. Configurations can be hosted and managed in bayMountain’s data center or hosted at a partner facility and remotely managed using bayVista, bayMountain’s remote monitoring system.

bayMountain provides a level of expertise, performance and return-on-investment unmatched by other providers. More information is available at www.bayMountain.com.

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truePilot, on behalf of bayMountain, Inc.

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Blake Smith

truePilot, on behalf of bayMountain, Inc.

919-806-4259

blake@truepilot.com