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Caldera to enter Linux training market

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NEW DELHI: Caldera India plans to enter the Linux training market through IT

training majors. It will offer training services to education vendors as well as

support them with education courseware in Linux. Caldera, one of the leading

players in developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions, has already

made its foray into the training market in its global operations. "With our

base of knowledge in Linux-based application, Caldera is suitably placed to

provide educational material on Linux," explains, country director for

India and South East Asia, Srikant Acharya. Currently the company only provides

training to its partners and provides support and maintenance to its customers

from its center in Delhi.






Caldera's training foray assumes significance in light of the fact that the
Linux shipment to the country is set to boom by 2004. According to IDC, Linux

shipment to India today stands at 15,253. This figure is expected to touch

40,812 in 2004 registering a CAGR of 79.3 per cent since 1999. As such the

demand for professionals who are familiar with Linux technology is likely to

accelerate exponentially.






Although training vendors today offer courses in Linux, its is believed that the
curriculum is not designed properly since vendors do not really have expertise

in Linux to develop good courseware.






Meanwhile, four Linux vendors (Caldera, Connectiva, Turbo and Suse) have
launched an initiative called Unified Linux Initiative to develop a common core

for its Linux products. This initiative is expected to simplify the

compatibility tests that vendors undertake when they launch Linux products.

Since the development of Linux is a distributed effort, third party vendors who

develop products on Linux have a tough task in verifying their products for

different Linux platforms.



The Alfa version of the Unified code is expected to be ready by July, the beta
version will be available by September and the first version of the code is

expected to hit the market by December.






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