John Aldrich wrote in a message to Marco van den Bovenkamp:
 MvdB> It's more like Ray Noorda (head honcho of Novell) took Novell DOS with
 MvdB> him when he left to set up Caldera.
 JA> Ahh...is THAT what happened? All I knew was that Caldera now
 JA> "owns" Novell Dos 7, which they have renamed Caldera
 JA> Opendos...and it would seem (from my brief look into it)
 JA> that it has all the benefits of Dos 7 w/o the drawbacks
 JA> (including the drive compression junk!) 
Caldera bought all of Digital Research from Novell, including Novell DOS 
(formerly DR DOS, now Caldera OpenDOS) and CP/M.
Caldera OpenDOS does include Stacker drive compression, but it is always 
optional whether you want to use it.
The main advantage of OpenDOS is that it bundles full peer-to-peer 
networking, although not in a convenient or compatible manner for use with 
anything else.
 
-- Mike
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