ZDNet has a preview of the LinuxWorld Expo. “In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming
out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro flavor, as companies
that specialize in software for the oldfangled mainframe move to embrace the comparatively
new operating system.”

C|Net: “In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro flavor, as companies that specialize in software for the oldfangled mainframe move to embrace the comparatively new operating system.” Read more here.

IDG News Service reports that Hewlett-Packard will unveil today new hardware and support for Linux, aimed at moving telecommunications industry customers from Unix.

Paul Murpy writes: “I’ve drafted a rebuttal -attached. It’s also available on my
website as: http://www.winface.com/idc.html.” From his story: “On that basis the bare bones cost comparison is a no brainer: Unix wins easily. The issue there isn’t whether Unix is cheaper — that’s a
gimme — the issue is whether it’s smarter and that depends mainly on what you do with it. Is Linux on Intel smarter than Windows on
Intel? For most Linux applications that’s a comparison between a cheap and highly reliable system on one side and Windows on the
other — not exactly a difficult choice.”

Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) today stepped up its channel commitment by enhancing
its global Solutions Partner Program.

Under the revised program, Solutions Partners receive free technical training, free online education materials, specially priced
technical support services and significant discounts on product support. In addition, all partners can now subscribe to Partner Online,
an online service that provides access to technical articles, software patches and a proactive email notification service. Further,
members of Caldera’s Partner Program have access to co-marketing, demo software, development tools, training, sales information,
and technical support according to their location and partnership level.

“Caldera’s increased commitment to our channel partners demonstrates our ability to act as a true partner-in-business,” said Reg
Broughton, senior vice president and general manager, Services Business Line, Caldera. “Our goal is to increase our partners’
potential for success by providing a broad range of support services at discounted prices or free of charge.”

“Caldera is the only Linux company with something to offer to solution providers, and the only Linux company offering a real partner
program with potential,” said Richard Figer, VP of sales, S. B. Stone & Company. “S. B. Stone & Company focuses on delivering the
very best computing solutions to our customers with a high standard of quick and cost-effective support and service. As a Caldera
Premier Solutions Partner, we are positioned to leverage the opportunities the Linux and UNIX markets offer.”

Caldera resellers will be able to find more details regarding enhancements in Caldera’s Partner Program in the February edition of
eStreet, Caldera’s monthly online partner magazine. To sign up contact
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/.

Caldera Partner Program
Targeted to Developers, Solution Providers, Resellers, Vertical Solutions Providers, Distributors, OpenLearning Providers and
Application Service Providers, Caldera’s Partner Program provides global support, training and marketing to help partners build and
sell Caldera’s solutions, which are known internationally for their stability, security and trusted environment. To learn more about
Caldera’s partner program, please visit http://www.caldera.com/partners/.

Caldera International, Inc.
Caldera International (Nasdaq: CALD) provides “Powerful Choices” for businesses through its Open UNIX, OpenLinux and SCO
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 OpenLearning, 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. Caldera Global
Services is a service mark of Caldera International, Inc. 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.

– By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols –

It’s not that Sun is killing off Solaris on Intel, it’s simply that the company isn’t planning yet to move Solaris 9 to the Intel family. Graham Lovell, Sun’s
director of Solaris product marketing, explains that Sun isn’t
making any further investments in Solaris on Intel for several
reasons and that the company may yet port Solaris 9 to Intel.

Sun resellers doubt that this is the case. One anonymous
Solaris network integrator from Florida said flatly, “It won’t
happen. Solaris on Intel was always meant to tempt people into
buying high-profit margin SPARC systems. With the BSDs and
Linux taking most of the Unix on Intel market, there wasn’t any
business reason to continue Solaris on Intel.”

As Stacey Quandt, an analyst at Giga Information Group, puts
it, “Solaris on Intel was no longer leading to any revenue
capture for Sun.”

Solaris 8 on Intel, which Lovell claims has had more than a
million downloads, will still be available for the next two years
and then get limited support for five more years. For device
drivers and similar needs, though, users will need to look to the BSD
Open Source community. Still, there can be no question that Sun
is moving slowly away from the Intel chip family.

But is Solaris’ move away from Intel an opportunity for Linux
vendors? Quandt doesn’t think so. “I haven’t seen a significant
installed base for Solaris on Intel. Where I’ve seen it has been
mostly in education and research institutions. I think it unlikely
to impact enterprise companies.” And, in any case, she thinks
Solaris on Intel customers may find the structurally similar BSD
operating systems “the better answer.”

Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera, thinks that Sun’s move away
from keeping Solaris on Intel up to date does represent an
opportunity, but not for Linux, but instead for Caldera’s Open
Unix, its cross between UnixWare and Linux. He noted,
“Caldera has a strong relationship with Sun. Sun is a partner and
investor in Caldera, and we are very interested in continuing our
work with them.” But he also thinks that “Sun’s decision
demonstrates the consolidation happening on Intel, and
essentially makes Caldera the only alternative for Unix on
Intel.”

But Mark deVisser, Red Hat’s vice president of marketing thinks that Sun’s move out of the Intel platform does represent an opportunity for Linux. “We have long stated that
our greatest market share gains have come from the Unix camp,
so it is no surprise that the real opportunity for Red Hat is in the
Unix-to-Linux migration. Amazon is one such customer who
migrated from Unix to Linux at considerable cost savings, and
we’re seeing much more momentum in this direction.”

The marketplace will decide whose vision of the future turns out
to be the clearest, but one thing is for certain: Open Source wins.
Whether it’s BSD, pure Linux or Linux -elated operating
systems like Open Unix, or Pentium III and IVs or the Itanium,
the only significant Unixes running on Intel platforms in the
future will be Open Source.

NewsFactor Network writes, “When AOL filed suit Tuesday on behalf of its Netscape subsidiary against software maker Microsoft, speculation about AOL’s motive, timing and desired monetary settlement — as much as US$12 billion — flew fast and furious. Now, many analysts believe the lawsuit has less to do with reviving the browser wars than it does with AOL’s desire for monetary awards to offset its failed Netscape purchase.”

Wired.comm reports on the Mono projects’s move from the GNU GPL license to the X11 license for its class libraries. More from ZDNet.

Posted on LinuxSecurity.com: ”
rsync is a powerful tool used for mirroring directory structures across
machines. rsync has been found to contain several signed/unsigned bugs in
its I/O functions which are remotely exploitable. A remote user can crash
the rsync server/client and execute code as the user running the rsync
server or client.”

LinuxSecurity.com runs down its list of articles from last week. This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include “Linux Kernel Hardening,” “A
Denial-of-Service Tale of Woe,” “Use Linux firewall to fend off hackers,” and ”
Databases: a soft touch for hackers.”