Although Ray Noorda’s personal backing was thought to the the only thing keeping alive the Corsair operating system based on the Linux Unixalike, and the thing was abandoned when new chief executive Ron Frankenberg reviewed Novell Inc’s priorities, the thing is alive and well at a spin-out company, Caldera Inc, Infoworld reports. The plan now is to market the graphical operating system as an Internet desktop operating system, Ransome Love, vice-president of marketing, told the paper. The Orem, Utah, firm has licensed a tool kit for converting Windows applications to run under Unix from Willow Software Inc, formerly Multiport Inc, of Saratoga, California, he added.
