Mozilla.org is planning two developer events in the next couple of months.
Details can be found at the links below. The first is in Brussels on
Feb. 16 and 17 as part of the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ Meeting). The second is planned for
March 1 and 2 at Carnegie Mellon University
–Mitchell Baker
mozilla.org

NWfusion.com reports that
Linux developer Red Hat wants to increase
its presence in the high-end market for
enterprise software. At this week’s
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the company is previewing its Red Hat
Advanced Server and introducing several new tools designed for large
businesses.

LinuxJournal.com asks this question: “Is it possible that the top Linux distribution–at least for desktops — is Red … Flag?

Given a combination of Chinese demographics and government encouragement, that may
well be the case.”

From Wired.com: “A privacy group Tuesday asked state law enforcement authorities to examine
software giant Microsoft’s Passport online identity service, saying it exposes consumers to fraud, junk
electronic mail and identity theft.”

PCWorld.com has a story saying Sony Computer Entertainment plans to release a Linux
developers’ kit for its PlayStation 2 console in Japan, North America, and Europe.

The development kit, called “Linux release 1.0,” is geared toward the Linux
development community and will allow full access to the PlayStation 2 runtime environment
and systems manuals.

Tom Warren writes, “Now we can use Linux on production systems with this release. This is great news.”

Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) today announced that Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 will
begin shipping in February. Volution Manager 1.1 is the secure, Web-based management and administration solution that now
supports the latest versions of all major Linux distributions as well as Caldera OpenServer and Open Unix products. In addition,
Caldera is introducing several new systems management features in Volution Manager to help system administrators and solution
providers save time, scale resources, and ease deployments cost effectively. With this release, Caldera’s channel partners can offer
remote services to all their customer sites, saving time and money while offering more responsive service to those customers.

The Aberdeen Group, a leading industry research firm, recently released a competitive analysis white paper by Dr. Bill Claybrook on
Linux management solutions. The Aberdeen Group claimed Caldera provided the best Linux management solution, saying, “Today,
the leading overall Linux software management solution is an integration of Caldera Volution Online and Caldera Volution Manager.
Caldera has the potential for large amounts of success with the integrated product solution both within its large installed base and
outside its installed base because it has brought cross-platform management into one interface for several distributions of Linux,
OpenServer, and Open UNIX with future plans for Solaris and Windows.”

New enhancements to Caldera Volution Manager include:

• Multiple platforms management via one interface
• New install options that simplify reviews, evaluations and deployments
• New Wizards that simplify common tasks and reduce the initial learning curve
• New status and diagnostic features that reduce troubleshooting time and allows greater control
• Integration with Compaq Insight Manager that provides a comprehensive management solution for Linux and Caldera UNIX
  products on Compaq hardware
• New customer response capabilities to monitor events, improving response and uptime for trouble systems
• Integration with Volution Online providing an Internet delivered, proactive software management service for Linux and UNIX
  systems

“We have been testing Volution Manager 1.1 since its initial beta release in August and found that it has enormous potential to
decrease the time and effort involved in managing our OpenServer and Linux servers,” said David Rose, network architect for
Snyder’s Drug Stores, Inc., a large national drug store chain operating 161 stores in 10 states. “We feel this product fits the needs we
face in managing hundreds of OpenServer and Linux servers better than any other product in its price range and we look forward to
the products release.”

Key Benefits of Volution Manager 1.1

• Saves system administrators’ time and reduces labor costs for updating servers
• Unifies management and simplifies administration
• Enables faster response to system alerts and security warnings
• Leverages and extends existing resources
• Eases new system deployments

Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 is one of many Web services products in Caldera’s Volution product family. In addition, Caldera
recently began shipping Caldera Volution Messaging Server, and also began offering Caldera Volution Online, representing Caldera’s
next steps in extending the necessary infrastructure to deliver comprehensive Web-enabled applications to existing customers. In
addition, Caldera provides education, support and professional services for customers interested in accessing additional services for
implementing Caldera software across organizations.
To complement the capabilities of Volution Manager when used with Linux systems, Caldera also offers a proactive management
service called Caldera Volution Online, which utilizes an extensive knowledge base of Open Source software alerts, patches, and
releases for all Linux systems. It helps administrators stay current with changes in Open Source software while flagging
dependencies and conflicts with their current systems. The service also allows administrators to conduct valuable “What If” queries
to provide critical analysis for understanding the costs and benefits of software upgrades and installations.

Pricing and Availability
Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 will be available in February at the suggested retail price of $2995 for a server + 10 node licenses. For
more information about Volution Manager 1.1, go to www.caldera.com/products/volutionmanager or call Caldera at
1-888-GO-LINUX or outside the U.S., call +1-801-765-4999. Customers may visit www.caldera.com/partners to find a solution
provider in their area.

Caldera International, Inc.
Caldera International (Nasdaq: CALD) provides “Powerful Choices” for businesses through its Open UNIX, OpenLinux and
OpenServer product lines and services. Based in Orem, UT, Caldera has representation in 82 countries and 15,000+ resellers
worldwide. Caldera Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information
on Caldera products and services, visit http://www.caldera.com.

Caldera, the Caldera logos, Caldera Volution, OpenLinux, SCO and the associated SCO logo, and SCO OpenServer are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open
Group in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other brand or product names
are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.

Forward Looking Statements
The statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company wishes to
advise readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. 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.

Geodesic Systems, a leading provider of performance and availability management software that
helps business critical applications run faster, crash less and report more, will demonstrate the power of its
Great Circle ™ runtime diagnostic solution by offering live debugging demos of Mozilla, one of today’s largest open source projects
and the browser suite on which AOL Time Warner’s Netscape 6 is based.

This groundbreaking demo is now live on the Geodesic web site (www.geodesic.com/gc_demo.html). Visitors to the site can run
Geodesic Great Circle ™ live on one of the current Mozilla sources, build a database of bugs and errors, and perform memory
profiling. The demo also will be available to attendees at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Intel booth #739, January 29-February
1 in New York. Geodesic will update the demo weekly using the latest Mozilla sources and the reports will be shared with the Mozilla
developer community.

“Running Great Circle(tm)against Mozilla gives Geodesic an opportunity to show how the solution can successfully take on any large
enterprise level application,” said Michael Spertus, Geodesic’s founder and chief technology officer. “The Mozilla developer
community always is looking for ways to strengthen the reliability of the program’s code, so we’re glad to share the results of this
demo as a means to help.”

Great Circle ™,now also available for the Linux platform, is an advanced debugging environment that allows developers to test,
diagnose and resolve memory problems. It pinpoints elusive errors that can cause excessive application memory use and devastating
crashes 10 to 30 times faster than other diagnostic tools. No rebuilding or relinking of the applications is required. Using a web
browser interface, Great Circle ™ allows remote debugging through a LAN or over the Internet. Other Great Circle ™features
include memory error reporting with direct links to source code, third-party and legacy code error detection, and low memory
simulation testing mode. In addition to development tools like Great Circle(tm)Geodesic also offers Runtime Solutions that
automatically improve application reliability and performance by protecting against many of these errors at runtime.

To learn more about Geodesic solutions, visit Geodesic at the Intel Booth #739 at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, January
29-February 1 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, or go to www.geodesic.com.

Developers can visit
www.geodesic.com/solutions/linux.html to purchase or download a free evaluation copy of Great Circle(tm) Geodesic Runtime
Solutions or Geodesic Analyzer(tm)(available Q1 2002).

About Geodesic
Geodesic Systems, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, offers application infrastructure solutions that automatically improve the
performance and reliability of business-critical systems. Many Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies rely on Geodesic
Runtime Solutions (formerly Geodesic REMIDI) and Great Circle(tm) to help keep their business-critical systems running. For
further information on Geodesic, its products and services, visit the company’s web site at www.geodesic.com.

Great Circle is a registered trademark of Geodesic Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their
respective owners.

Anonymous Reader writes, “The 22-member non-profit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) today
announced the formation of a pair of technical working groups aimed at
enhancing the suitability of Linux for telecommunications and datacenter infrastructure applications. The two groups, called the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group and the Data Center Linux Working Group, will provide “vision and guidance” to “encourage the development of whatever commercial and open standard components are needed on top of Linux to implement required platform functionality” for their respective market segments. Read the article at LinuxDevices.com.”

– By Jack Bryar –

If people were worried about the influence of private companies on the Open Source movement, they should become petrified. As of today, the largest Open Source company in the world does $85 billion in sales and has a workforce almost as large as the
population of Cincinnati, Ohio. Sam Palmisano is taking over at IBM and he’s riding in
on a lot of promises about how Big Blue and Linux can make billions
together.

This week Lou Gerstner finally announced what everyone has known for
months: Palmisano will take over as CEO of Big Blue in five weeks.
Following the news, IBM stock tanked by nearly four dollars.

It shouldn’t have. For the change in leadership occurred some time
ago. Samuel J. Palmisano has been the power at IBM for more than 18
months. Palmisano has been the in-house geek-in-a-suit who has driven IBM’s
embrace of Linux for the last two years. In many ways, Linux was the platform
Palmisano ran on to get his new job.

Now 50 years old, Palmisano is an IBM lifer, having joined the
company right out of college. He was quickly identified as management material,
and was on the company’s short list of would-be CEOs as far back as
back in 1993. Unfortunately, at the time, the company was hemorrhaging. It
lost $8 billion in 1993. The board of directors wanted a finance guy, a
seasoned suit who could calm the investment community and who might be able to
tame the factional infighting that had completely balkanized the company
into a series of fiefdoms. So, for the time being, the job was handed off to
RJR’s Lou Gerstner.

No fool, Gerstner quickly used Palmisano as a sounding board and
confidant (he had been the assistant to former IBM CEO John Akers). In return,
Gerstner gave Palmisano a job — and a big one at that. He was told to revitalize
ISSC, IBM’s old consulting and services unit.

Given that IBM’s products were incredibly difficult to manage, most
IBM customers didn’t need much encouragement to buy services to help
them cope. Palmisano grew the consulting and services business back to the
dominating force it had been years before. After growing the business by
approximately 30%, the renamed IBM Global Services unit was the biggest division in
the company. While running the division, Palmisano had become aware of the
potential for Linux to become a truly “disruptive” force, possibly the
next big thing in IT.

Like nearly everyone in the technology business, he watched Red Hat
and VA Linux launch explosive IPOs. Red Hat promised big profits bundling
services with Linux. VA (now VA Software, NewsForge’s corporate parent) hoped to do the same by combining Linux and server equipment.

IBM veterans like Irving Wladawsky-Berger became Linux evangelists,
arguing that if Linux was the future of the market, IBM could enter it
with some unique strengths.

Unlike Red Hat, IBM Global Services had a stable of marquee clients.
It had a global reputation that it didn’t have to build from the ground
up. It had a sales force who could talk about operating systems and IT
issues from a business solutions perspective rather than just babble
about technology. If there was a Linux-based services business to be had,
IBM was positioned to dominate.

IBM’s hardware business was both an opportunity and a challenge. Unlike VA, IBM already made its own equipment, with a range of product that reached from the desktop to the server farm. What Linux gave IBM was something that its hardware division desperately needed — a standard platform, on the cheap. As Palmisano admitted in 1991, the cost of development on IBM’s varied hardware platforms was becoming non-competitive. By extending Linux to run on some of IBM’s oldest and most proprietary
hardware platforms, IBM might be able to revitalize a server business that was
becoming a costly embarrassment.

Palmisano brought
together Wladawsky-Berger and an assortment of “old blue” hardware
and software veterans to take a hard look at the potential for Linux.
Wladawsky-Berger’s Linux strategy was a high-profile, high-risk option that quickly
evolved into Palmisano’s final examination for the corner office job. In
January 2000, Palmisano wrote, “we will embrace Linux” and declared that
the company would extend much of its proprietary software to run on
Linux. The memo generated speculation that Palmisano wanted to extend Linux to
re-inject some excitement into its motley assortment of midrange server
platforms, such as the RS6000 and AS400.

Last year, when other vendors were beginning to shy away from their
earlier enthusiasm for Linux, Palmisano continued to champion the
platform, more aggressively than ever. Last year he acted as
keynote speaker of LinuxWorld, joking that “when I looked over
at the Penguin and saw he was wearing a [IBM-style] blue tie,” he
knew that IBM and Linux were ready to do business together.

They have.

Linux was the bridge that allowed the company to redevelop and
reposition its server line into a force to be reckoned with, gathering market
share even as the global market for servers declined. The company has
promised billions of dollars to further develop Linux products and services. To date, the
company has spent tens of millions in marketing and advertising Linux equipment
and services. It has engaged its R&D arm to find new ways to extend
the code base and apply it to a bewildering array of new products.

Today, the extent to which IBM has gone to embed Linux cannot be
over estimated. IBM hasn’t put Linux into a toaster or refrigerator yet,
but it has put it into
a watch. It experimented with Linux-based cash registers. It is showing a Linux-based vending machine at this week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Today, Linux is at the center
of the company’s newest mainframe. More is coming soon.

It is far from certain whether IBM will be able to generate big
profits from Linux. The company has missed its most recent revenue projections.
Both the services unit and the hardware division slowed sharply, pushing total revenue down by more than 10%. However, Palmisano has ridden the Linux wave this far, and it is unlikely that the company will back off, at least in the short term. So, for now, one of the biggest companies in the world is a Linux company. It could get interesting.