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US Exclusive: Caldera CEO says Microsoft threatening PC makers

...manufacturers in a dispute over bundling a competing operating system, Caldera CEO, Bryan Sparks alleged yesterday. Caldera, together with more than a dozen other companies... Read more

28 April, 1998 by ZDNet

Love: Novell could have had it all

...founder of Caldera. What's the company's early history? Myself and Bryan Sparks and Rob Hicks in the legal department got together over lunch... Read more

24 November, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Who stole SCO's lollipop?

...year stood aside for new chief executive Darl McBride at SCO) and Bryan Sparks also used to work at Novell when it still owned UnixWare... Read more

15 May, 2003 by Matt Loney

Caldera, stay off the mushrooms

...s backing, to become Caldera under the auspices of Ransom Love and Bryan Sparks. Never one to turn down the opportunity of a fast buck... Read more

4 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

Bankruptcy and more layoffs in Linux world

...systems and programming tools to build computing systems using them, Chief Executive Bryan Sparks said in a statement. Lineo had hoped for an initial public... Read more

13 September, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

ARM chips to run embedded Linux

...we're providing them with those solutions today," said Lineo chief executive Bryan Sparks in a statement. ARM made the announcement at the Embedded Systems... Read more

10 April, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Will embedded browsers rule the Web?

The emerging embedded market could make lumbering Netscape and IE browsers look like dinosaurs Read more

24 March, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

WinCE applications on a Linux PDA announced

...runs on top of the Lineo Embedded Linux platform. CEO of Lineo, Bryan Sparks issued a statement: "Although Microsoft has not captured a majority position... Read more

26 January, 2000 by Will Knight

Microsoft ruling: Open the floodgates

...we were arguing was vindicated by this decision by Judge Jackson." Meanwhile, Bryan Sparks, founder and president of Caldera subsidiary Lineo, thinks the ruling will... Read more

10 November, 1999 by Lisa M Bowman

Linux IPOs: Is Caldera next in line?

...too-distant future its Linux division, called Caldera Systems Inc., Caldera CEO Bryan Sparks confirmed. Sparks said Caldera's founders have counted on going public... Read more

9 June, 1999 by ZDNet

Caldera unlocks Microsoft evidence

For years, Caldera Inc. has boasted of its rich store of 1.5 million pages of documents that it has collected in its... Read more

29 April, 1999 by Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft's culture under siege - Part 1

...arrogance of Microsoft to be impacted by its legal goings on," said Bryan Sparks, CEO of Caldera Inc., which is embroiled in its own antitrust... Read more

22 March, 1999 by ZDNet

US Report: Caldera furious as Microsoft loses its source code

...question. "Microsoft didn't deliver all the source code," said Caldera CEO Bryan Sparks. "They said they couldn't find some of the Windows 95... Read more

27 August, 1998 by Jo Foley

US Report: Microsoft ordered to turn over code to Caldera

...in place to protect our trade secrets and confidential information". Caldera CEO Bryan Sparks questioned Microsoft's defence for delaying delivery of the source code... Read more

30 July, 1998 by ZDNet

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