July 29, 2008
An alliance of large business-oriented Linux distributions which utilized the KDE desktop consisted of the SUSE, Linux Turbolinux, Connectiva and Caldera. SUSE Linux was one of the largest distributions in Europe while being the most business-oriented. Turbolinux is the largest distribution in Asia while Connectiva is the premier business-oriented Linux distribution in South America. The formation of such an alliance was for the purpose of establishing Caldera as the premier Linux brand. All members of the alliance agreed that each member would have an irrevocable, perpetual and worldwide license to use and unlimitedly exploit any intellectual property rights of the other members.
Business responded favorably to the move and for the first time, there was a Linux distribution that had global scope and support at the VAR, a full training organization, enterprise applications and an actual production GUI that ran well on a variety of hardware.
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