The first four weeks on the job I've spent a lot of time looking for value points, leverage points, if you will, in terms of "what do we do with this company." I just sent out a letter to shareholders a couple of days ago--I won't bore you with all the details--but there are a couple of interesting things in there that I found out about Caldera that I didn't know before. One, the intellectual properties that we hold--we own SVRx, UnixWare, SCO Unix--in terms of the Unix timeline, the thread that runs through the middle of these is really SVRx. All of the subsequent Unix licensing that happened broke off from that. We own all that intellectual property and have relationships with a lot of vendors. If people want to come and see the original HP-UX source code, they come to us. We get several dozen requests a month just to come in and see AIX or HP-UX code base. And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++. It was interesting to see the depth of Caldera's intellectual capital.-- Darl McBride, 2002-08-15

When we start talking about a product that has a price tag on it like UnitedLinux, we suddenly have a model to go to market with. It's not that these guys [resellers] don't like Linux per se, it's just "How do I make money on it?" Beyond the typical service story, they need to have a box that they can get some margin on, and that's what we'll be looking at.-- Darl McBride, 2002-08-15