DeviceLogics was a company in
Lindon,
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, USA, founded in November 2002. Originally
doing business mostly under the DeviceLogics name, the company was incorporated as DRDOS, Inc. for legal reasons. The DeviceLogics name was later dropped.
Bryan Wayne Sparks
Caldera was a US-based software company founded in 1994 to develop Linux- and DOS-based operating system products.
Caldera
Caldera, Inc. was a Canopy-funded software company founded in October 1994 and incorporated on 25 January 1995 by f ...
co-founded the company, together with Bryce Burns and Troy Tribe, and acquired
DR-DOS
DR-DOS (written as DR DOS, without a hyphen, in versions up to and including 6.0) is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Upon its introduction in 1988, it was the first DOS attempting to be compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS-D ...
from the
Canopy Group
The Canopy Group is an American investment and property management firm founded by Ray Noorda in 1995 through the Noorda Family Trust. It is headquartered in Lindon, Utah. At various times it has consisted of, or been known as, Canopy Technolo ...
, a
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
technology venture group. Copies of
DR-DOS 7.03 have been licensed and distributed by this company.
The company's web site went offline in 2018.
History of DR-DOS
In 1994, Bryan W. Sparks, with help from
Novell
Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.
Under the lead ...
's
Raymond John Noorda, founded
Caldera, Inc.
Caldera was a US-based software company founded in 1994 to develop Linux- and DOS-based operating system products.
Caldera
Caldera, Inc. was a Canopy-funded software company founded in October 1994 and incorporated on 25 January 1995 by f ...
Caldera bought DR-DOS from
Novell
Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.
Under the lead ...
in 1996.
See also
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Lineo
Lineo was a thin client and embedded systems company spun out of Caldera Thin Clients by 20 July 1999.
History
Caldera Thin Clients, Inc., had been created as a subsidiary of Caldera, Inc., on 2 September 1998. Caldera Thin Clients' origina ...
References
External links
Official website(archived snapshot as of 2018-07-05)
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2002 establishments in Utah
2018 disestablishments in Utah
Software companies established in 2002
Software companies established in 2018
Defunct software companies of the United States
Companies based in Utah
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