Infrastructure Linux News for Feb 29, 2000

• WideOpenNews.com: Linuxcare Discloses IPO Plans (Feb 29, 2000, 23:56)
  "If shares sell at $14 a piece, Linuxcare would boast a market capitalization of $422.8 million -- quite a bit bigger than Caldera Systems' expected initial market cap of $306 million but considerably smaller than Red Hat's $8.5 billion or VA Linux's $4.3 billion."


• Cole 3D: Storm Linux 2000 Review (Feb 29, 2000, 23:26)
  "Storm Linux has a pretty good install program. You can choose to install in either text or graphical mode."


• Live Tonight on The Linux(r) Show!!- are they taking our books away from us? (Feb 29, 2000, 23:12)
  "A follow up to last weeks discussion about red hat but focusing in on the isue of fragmentation. Is this really a big deal or is a certain amount of fragmentation good?"


• CNET News.com: VA Linux an example of stellar IPOs gone south (Feb 29, 2000, 22:47)
  "Despite the mix in results, analysts say Linux still resonates with investors. With the growth of e-commerce, the popularity of the upstart OS is expected to grow..."


• China Embraces MP3s (Feb 29, 2000, 20:48)
  Houston InterWeb Design Tuesday formed a joint venture with the Chinese government and a Chinese investment company to build the first governmentally approved MP3 music site in China.


• PRNewswire: Computer I/O and MontaVista... Partner... Embedded Linux I/O Servers and Appliances (Feb 29, 2000, 20:47)
  "The joint effort will deliver a Linux-based real-time server platform designed for the unique needs of time-sensitive, high-bandwidth applications using streaming media such as multi-media, telecommunications and web servers."


• osOpinion: Linux/Be on a nonproprietary console (Feb 29, 2000, 20:27)
  "Imagine for a moment, an OS vendor such as Linux and/or Be OS introducing a console that could compete with the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast in hardware specification and price, but is nonproprietary."


• BW: Cyclone Makes B2B Internet Trading Community Development Easier and More Scalable (Feb 29, 2000, 20:26)
  "New Version of Cyclone Interchange Trading Engine Expands Platform Support to Linux and AS/400; Adds Partner Grouping Capabilities, Support for COM, MQSeries And DB2"


• BW: Splash Technology... Color Servers for Canon Mid-Range Copiers... Use Splash-Linux Technology (Feb 29, 2000, 20:08)
  "The Splash T200 product line features a new Splash-Linux architecture based on Splash's advanced compression and color technologies, combined with the Linux operating system and standard Intel processors."


• O'Reilly -- Ask Tim: Open Source, Patents and O'Reilly (Feb 29, 2000, 20:03)
  "I completely agree with RMS that the Amazon 1-Click Patent is one more example of an "intellectual property" milieu gone mad."


• PRNewswire: IKON Creates Major Splash as Exclusive Distributor of New Color Document Server Line (Feb 29, 2000, 19:58)
  "Low-Cost, Robust, Linux-Based Splash Color Servers Exceed Functionality Standards for Entry-Level Servers in Office and Creative Environments"


• PRNewswire: Platform Computing Unveils 'Virtual Supercomputing' Technology... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:37)
  "LSF is the key enabling technology in some of the world's largest 'superclusters' ...supports everything from Linux to supercomputing operating systems, from inexpensive x86-based workstations to powerful Cray and NEC supercomputing platforms."


• PRNewswire: iChargeit, Inc. Launches `My Shopping Planet' Affiliate Revenue Program (Feb 29, 2000, 19:21)
  "www.shoppingplanet.com specializes in Computer hardware and software sales and specifically offers a $399 Linux PC Computer and a $499 Dual Boot Windows/Linux PC..."


• BW: I-Logix and MontaVista... to Provide First [Embedded Linux] Application Development Platform... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:15)
  "...I-Logix will support MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux embedded operating system as a target for code developed in its Rhapsody(TM) application development platform."


• BW: Level 8 Offers Message Queuing Software for Red Hat Linux... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:06)
  "...today announced the availability of Geneva XIPC for Linux, the first message-oriented middleware software product specifically designed for the Linux platform."


• BW: TurboLinux Powers Japan E-Commerce Web Site... 380 Stores... Hosting 3.3 Million Products (Feb 29, 2000, 18:52)
  " 'TurboLinux, IBM and Java have helped lower the total cost of creating CyberCity,' said Yoshitake Senoo, director of multimedia business at DEODEO."


• osOpinion: UCITA : the Best Legislation Money Can Buy, Take Two (Feb 29, 2000, 18:29)
  "... if Big Software must have UCITA, let's amend it so the affected parties have no question of what is required of them."


• BW: EBIZ Enterprises Inc.'s Stock Symbol is Added to [LWN's] Tier 1 Linux Companies (Feb 29, 2000, 18:18)
  "The LWN Linux Stocks Page provides a summary of the state of trading in Linux(R)-related stocks. ... Tier 1, where EBIZ is listed, features companies whose primary business focus is Linux(R)..."


• BW: Plesk Inc. Launches New Web-based Tool to Simplify Server Management... Via Any Browser (Feb 29, 2000, 18:00)
  "Plesk Server Administrator v.1.2 is available for leading Unix/Linux based platforms, including Solaris, FreeBSD, Red Hat, BSDI, and Slackware."


• LinuxNewbie.org: "Linux Programming White Papers" Reviewed (Feb 29, 2000, 17:52)
  "I was sure that this book would cut to the straight to the chase as far as programming in Linux was concerned, no holds barred if you like. I certainly wasn't wrong."


• BW: Synopsys and SGI Present Linux-Based Electronic Design Verification Seminar... (Feb 29, 2000, 17:47)
  " '...Synopsys teamed with SGI to accelerate the availability and performance of verification tools on Linux operating system-based parallel computer systems.'..."


• Reuters: Linuxcare sets IPO at 4.5 mln shares, $13-$15/shr (Feb 29, 2000, 17:28)
  "The terms of the offering were revealed for the first in an amended prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission."


• BW: Linux With An [SGI] Iris [For High Availability Clustering] (Feb 29, 2000, 17:10)
  "SGI and Linux software provider SuSE Linux have announced a joint engineering project to bring Iris FailSafe, SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating system."


• The Register: Microsoft and Caldera - dispelling the myths (Feb 29, 2000, 16:50)
  "The first [myth] is that Caldera Systems - the one that filed for the IPO - is closely-related to Caldera Inc, the winner of the settlement from Microsoft."


• Bloor Interactive: Java overtakes C++ as most in demand programming skill (Feb 29, 2000, 15:55)
  "...with 36.8% of all programming job adverts in our sample now specifying Java."


• Linux.com: Professional Computer Graphics on Linux? You Bet (Feb 29, 2000, 06:13)
  "Now, with inexpensive hardware, free software, and a little talent, anybody can venture down the path towards professional-looking computer graphics."


• Lynx and PacketStream Go Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 03:20)
  "PacketStream's SPS solution, supported by LynxOS and BlueCat Linux, overcomes the limitations of current IP networks to manage and deliver real-time, mission-critical, value-added services demanded by the emerging Internet market."


• An Appeal from Luis - Bring Linux to El Salvador (Feb 29, 2000, 01:16)
  "I received this letter from a friend in El Salvador. He has stepped forward and volunteered to accept and distribute Linux and other Open Source Products to his countrymen." -- Tom Adelstein


• LinuxPR: First beta of the Common UNIX Printing System 1.1 released! (Feb 29, 2000, 00:51)
  "... provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems."


• SF Gate: The NC -- With a Twist `Thin-client computing' may be next big thing (Feb 29, 2000, 00:47)
  "McNaught is... skeptical about the latest thin-client twist: terminals based on the free Linux OS."


• IBM developerWorks: Open source advocacy -- Selling free software to the uninitiated (Feb 29, 2000, 00:08)
  "In the open source community, it is generally understood that there are three kinds of advocating, each kind having its own goal and tactics."


• Linuxcare: Dear Lina: One Laptop to Rule Them All (Feb 29, 2000, 00:03)
  "Dear Lina: I'm a field sales representative and I take my laptop everywhere. I use it to login to all the other systems I use, but I have difficulty remembering all my passwords. The fewer I have to recall, the better. Is there an easy way I can manage all of my login accounts?"