FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECALDERA SHIPS DR-WEBSPYDER 2.0, A GRAPHICAL, INTERNET BROWSING ENVIRONMENT FOR DOSDR-WebSpyder Provides Industry's Thinnest Graphical Internet Access Client for OEMs of Compact Embedded Devices with Display Orem, UT May 11, 1998 Caldera® today began shipping DR-WebSpyder® 2.0, a customizable, high-performance Web browser for embedded OEM devices. The combination of DR-WebSpyder running on DR-DOS® creates the industry's most compact graphical Internet access client. OEMs are utilizing DR-WebSpyder in solutions that include interactive information kiosks, network computers, Internet set-top boxes, hand-held data entry devices, point-of-sale systems and other compact embedded devices with display. Caldera also announced the availability of the DR-System Builder Kit (DR-SBK), to aid OEM's of x86-based devices to quickly customize and implement DR-WebSpyder and DR-DOS into their compact embedded devices. "DR-WebSpyder reduces an OEM's risk and time-to-market, and increases an OEM's revenue margins by requiring fewer resources than competitive fat-clients, like Windows CE®," said Roger Gross, General Manager of Caldera, Inc.'s DR-DOS Division. "OEMs that use DR- WebSpyder as the browser and DR-DOS as the operating system expand their available resources with an extremely large number of experienced developers and proven development tools for DOS. This solution is perfect for the predicted explosion of embedded x86 devices."
DR-WebSpyder
DR-DOS 7.02
DR-System Builder Kit
Availability & Pricing DR-WebSpyder began shipping today, May 11, and is available for individual and OEM usage. The pricing model begins at $49 for a single copy and scales to meet the needs of OEMs of all sizes. Evaluation copies of DR-DOS 7.02 and a DR-WebSpyder 2.0 demonstration may be downloaded for free from www.caldera.com. The DR-System Builder Kit (DR-SBK) is available immediately and costs $495.
Contact Information
Caldera designs, develops and markets a line of operating system and
networking technologies, including DR-DOS, DR-WebSpyder and
OpenLinux. DR-DOS and DR-WebSpyder provide OEMs with low-memory,
low-cost requirement, x86-based solutions that connect to the
Internet, intranet services and networks. OpenLinux products utilize
technologies created on the Internet by developers around the world,
including the popular Linux kernel originated by Linus Torvalds in
1991. Caldera®, Inc. was founded by Bryan Sparks in October 1994 as a
start-up venture funded by Ray Noorda, former CEO of Novell®,
Inc. Based in Orem, Utah, the company also has product development
offices in England and Germany. Visit Caldera at
www.caldera.com, call
Caldera at (888) GO-DR-DOS [463- 7367], (888) GO-LINUX [465-4689], or
(801) 765-4888; or send E-mail to
info@caldera.com.
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