Caldera to be rechristened The SCO Group

NEW DELHI: Caldera International, Inc. has announced that it will change its name to ‘The SCO Group (SCO)’ upon shareholder approval. It feels that the renaming will enable solution providers to use the strength of the SCO brand when selling Linux solutions. This includes SCO’s Linux based products powered by UnitedLinux, to be released later this year.

"The name change to SCO from Caldera builds on a strong market position which we will extend as we reinvent the SCO brand," said SCO president and CEO, Darl McBride. "For more than two decades, the SCO name has been synonymous with reliability, stability and cost efficiency. Now, the coexistence and collaboration of UNIX and Linux systems from a single source offers our customers and channel partners a powerful choice of solutions, backed by a name that powers millions of servers around the world — SCO."

The SCO name change carries over to current Caldera branded solutions: Caldera OpenLinux becomes SCO Linux powered by UnitedLinux, Caldera Open UNIX becomes SCO UnixWare, The Caldera Partner Program becomes TeamSCO and Caldera Global Services becomes SCO Global Services. SCO OpenServer will retain its name. In addition, it is anticipated that the company will adopt SCOX as the new trading symbol for its common stock.