Re: Caldera Network Desktop (was:Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries)

Jost Boekemeier wrote: > > In article <50vsqa$hl2@ibridge.iohk.com>, > jwalters@igate.iohk.com (Jay Walters) writes: > >References: <322C8566.3382B8E3@fc.net> <50imb6$q60@library.airnews.net> <50ncu9$644@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> > >Distribution: > > > >No problem. Buy Linux, get support, that's what I said. I didn't say > > I never ment to start a flame war or something like that, but why do > you think the support from Microsoft is much better than the support > from Caldera? > > >get a real person to support it when you need it - and for which you'll > > That is what Caldera stands for. Ray Noorda (former CEO of Novell, Inc.) > founded the company in 1984 to bring an "easy to use" network-aware software > on the market and to support and sell it via internet and through traditional > channels. The Caldera Network Desktop is based on the Linux Operating System. > > >and tell me there is something without bugs - for sale or free. > > That is what about 500,000 people on the internet stand for. Those people > who write in linux.dev.kernel and other internet-groups, report bugs, > approuvements (wrong spelling) and test the new kernels which are made > available once per week through FTP. > > Once a kernel is stable (i.e. no more bugs are reported), it is frozen > with a version number of x.[0,2,4,6,8].x and devellopment continues > to bring new features into linux with a version number x.k+1.x > For example the current stable linux-kernel is 2.0.15 and the devellopment > kernel is 2.1.0. > > I don't think Microsoft has 500,000 beta-testers that can look into the > code of WindowsNT and report bugs via internet. > > Yes, every new software has bugs, but it is fair to say that Linux > is much more stable than other software due to its special devellopment > procedure, where *everyone* can look into the code and report bugs so that > these bugs will be fixed immediatly. > > The task of Caldera is to take a stable kernel, add software the business > people need (like Word Perfect, Netware, Databases, Wabi etc.) and to sell and > support "their" software. > > See: http://www.caldera.com > > Bye, > Jost Who Cares?