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Other products:
* ''Caldera NetWare for Linux 1.0'' (1998)<ref name="Linux_1998"/>
==United Linux==
{{main article|United Linux}}
[[Image:Penguin-Outline.png|right|frame|United Linux mascot]]
Caldera Systems quickly found itself in a classic business problem where the interests of the existing business conflicted with their growth model. [[Santa Cruz Operation]] (SCO) was a much larger company than Caldera Systems had been<!-- (the [[DR-DOS]] settlement had been what made the buyout possible) -->, and in fact of the $71 million of revenue 90% was from the SCO side of the business. Moreover, Caldera Systems costs $4 in marketing to generate a $1 in sales,<ref name="Wired"/> SCO was mature and sold itself (mainly to repeat customers). The [[Value-added reseller|VAR]] relationship was even more problematic. Caldera Systems had always sold the "[[Linux]] is SCO but better" model and had done everything possible to make the transition from SCO to Caldera Systems relatively seamless. Each of the 14,000 SCO resellers made much more from each SCO sale than from sales of Caldera Systems, so they were not anxious to move existing customers from SCO to Linux; and even those, that were supportive of Linux, saw no strong value add for Caldera Systems and often sold [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]]. Caldera Systems had two businesses in direct competition, one, which was a shrinking, but still profitable Unix business, the other a rapidly growing business, that was still hemorrhaging money.
The most logical solution was to establish Caldera Systems as the premier [[Linux distribution|Linux brand]]. Without the threat from [[Red Hat]], transitioning resellers from SCO to Caldera Systems would be much easier. With this in mind [[Ransom Love]] formed an alliance of large business oriented Linux distributions which utilized the [[KDE]] desktop, called [[United Linux]]. The alliance comprised [[Caldera International]], [[SUSE Linux]], [[Turbolinux]], and [[Conectiva]]. Filings from [[Novell]] in the [[SCO Group]] [[SCO v. Novell]] lawsuit showed that this was more than simply a marketing gimmick, and was a real alliance.<ref name="NovellStay"/>
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Business responded favorably to the movement as [[IBM]] and [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]] quickly formed partnerships. The [[Linux Professional Institute]] adopted United Linux as their standard distribution for training. For the first time there was a Linux distribution with:
* Global scope
* Global support at the VAR, [[Original Equipment Manufacturer|OEM]] and distribution level
* A full training organization
* Some governmental buy-in
* Support from major corporations
* [[Enterprise application]]s like [[Oracle database|Oracle]] supported [[Out of the box (feature)|out of the box]]
* An actual production [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] that ran well on a variety of hardware
SUSE Linux had the engineering, as it had continued to maintain a large technical staff, Caldera International had the global support organization, and Turbo Linux as well as Conectiva brought with growth potential into less flooded markets. This merger was so successful,{{disputed inline|for=in actuality, UnitedLinux was regarded with skepticism by industry observers when it was first announced, and it collapsed less than two years later|date=November 2019}} that Love and Sparks could claim vindication that year when Novell reversed the Frankenberg decision and brought United Linux engineering talent back into the fold with the acquisition of SUSE.
United Linux was rejected by the broader Linux community;<ref name="Mueller_2001"/> the use of [[per-seat license|per-seat licensing]] was their most highly controversial decision.<ref name="Butler"/> More importantly, by the time United Linux was released, [[Darl McBride]] had become CEO of Caldera International and the focus had shifted away from Linux.
Caldera International at this point released a Caldera "Linux distribution"{{citation needed|date=May 2014|reason=Elaborate on the name}}{{clarify|reason=is this something other than LKP>|date=November 2019}} with the [[UnixWare|OpenUNIX 8]] kernel instead of the [[Linux kernel]]. [[Unix]] has [[Transport Layer Interface|TLI]] and [[STREAMS]] support, which made writing drivers easier. Caldera International proved this by replacing the kernel and yet not having to change much else on a full featured desktop and server "Linux".<ref name="FAQ"/><ref name="U8"/>
==Copyright infringement allegations==
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