Subj : Re: BBSing on CP/M
To   : Ron Lauzon
From : acn
Date : Fri Sep 24 2021 16:46:00

Am 21.09.21 schrieb Ron Lauzon@21:1/192 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo Ron,

RL> Novell had a tendancy of buying up products only to sell them off (or kill
RL> them off) later.

Sad, but probably true...

RL> Didn't Novell buy up the Borland stuff and try to make an Office package
RL> out of them?  DOS-era, so a little off topic.

There was "Novell PerfectOffice" which contained eg. WordPerfect.

AFAIK, there was a server product for WordPerfect, which was the base  
for Novell's later groupware, GroupWise.

RL> I don't know why, but my memories of Caldera were always of a slimy
RL> company. No evidence.  It was just a feeling I always had.

That might be true. I fail to remember which company was/is the one  
which became the infamous SCO (which sued IBM for Linux), but I think  
it was one of the Caldera companies.

Besides, the best thing Caldera did was releasing most Digital  
Research code to the public, ie. CP/M, (parts of?) DR-DOS and GEM.

Regards,
Anna

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