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At another point in time, Caldera OpenLinux was also available on a retail basis, in the form of a CD-ROM for installing Linux on a PC that sold for {{currency|amount=49|code=USD|fmt=gaps|linked=no}}.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/technology/mac-windows-and-now-linux.html |title=Mac, Windows And Now, Linux |author-first=Katie |author-last=Hafner |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 8, 1998 |page=G1}}</ref>
OpenLinux typically came with a separate CD-ROM called the Solutions CD, which is what delivered the commercial
=== Caldera Systems era ===
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Caldera OpenLinux offered specific packages for e-commerce and secure-server configurations.<ref name="PCMag_2001"/> It was also aimed at the business connectivity ___domain.<ref name="moody"/> As ''[[PC Magazine]]'' wrote at the time, "Unusual for the Linux world, Caldera makes a strong cost-of-ownership argument in the corporate environment." It also said: "Unparalleled support and a wide range of products, including e-commerce solutions, make Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1 a very attractive choice. Caldera's clear distinction between client and server distributions underlines the company's endeavor to appeal to the business community."<ref name="PCMag_2001">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onqTTm-f8cAC&pg=PA124&dq=%22openlinux+3.1%22+2001&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQ2PPU-pSIAxW4M1kFHQ8CPaQQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22openlinux%203.1%22%202001&f=false | title=Choosing Linux | first=Bill | last=Ulrich | first2=Oliver | last2=Kaven | magazine=PC Magazine | date=2001-11-13 | pages=120–128 }} Caldera portion also available [https://www.pcmag.com/archive/caldera-openlinux-server-31-16536 at this url].</ref>
In its era, Caldera OpenLinux was one of the four major commercial Linux distributions, the others being [[Red Hat Linux]], [[Turbolinux]], and [[SuSE Linux]].<ref name="moody"/> In particular, these were the four that got the backing of hardware vendors such as [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] and [[IBM]], although Red Hat was clearly the primary recipient of such hardware support announcements.<ref name="moody"/> And overall Red Hat had the broadest base of acceptance within the computer industry, with SuSE strong in Europe.<ref name="PCMag_2001"/>
By 2002, in the wake of the [[dot com bust]], the Linux side of Caldera International was losing money badly; it was spending four times as much as it received in revenue.<ref name="Wired">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/2004/07/linux-7/ |title=The Linux Killer |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=July 2004 |author-first=Brad |author-last=Stone}}</ref> The only Linux distribution company that was doing even somewhat well at the time was Red Hat.<ref name="cnet-darl">{{cite news |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/struggling-linux-company-swaps-ceos/ |title=Struggling Linux company swaps CEOs |author-first=Stephen |author-last=Shankland |publisher=[[CNET]] | date=June 27, 2002}}</ref> Caldera International was further disadvantaged in that the Unix side of its business contributed most of its revenue and represented the products its resellers had the largest incentive to sell.<ref name="lj-2002">{{cite news | url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6292 | title=A Rose by Any Other Name – Is It Still the Same? | author-first=Jeff | author-last=Gerhardt | work=[[Linux Journal]] | date=August 27, 2002}}</ref>
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