Linux News for Jul 21, 1999

• CNET News.com: Informix takes different road to the Net (Jul 21, 1999, 21:59)
  "The new database... runs on Unix, Windows NT, and Linux operating systems."


• CNET News.com: Sun-Netscape finds its orbit with i-Planet (Jul 21, 1999, 21:59)
  "...all products from the Sun-Netscape alliance... new brand name... i-Planet."


• CNET News.com: SGI posts a profit (Jul 21, 1999, 21:57)
  "...Intel workstations will support Linux by the end of the year. ...Intel servers in early August... will debut with both Microsoft Windows NT and Linux..."


• CNET News.com: Be goes public, but doubts persist about its future (Jul 21, 1999, 20:41)
  "Losing to Linux... Linux has a huge developer base and the excitement of open source programming..."


• CNET News.com: Unisys beefs up Windows NT server line (Jul 21, 1999, 20:41)
  "Unisys... CMP architecture... Up to 32 processors can be used at once... can run different operating systems, such as Windows NT and Linux, at once."


• E-Commerce Times: Oracle8i For Linux Released (Jul 21, 1999, 19:55)
  "Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) this week announced the availability of its Oracle8i for Linux, a database designed specifically for the Internet that could end up being widely utilized by e-commerce operations."


• CNET News.com: Windows 95 remains most popular operating system (Jul 21, 1999, 19:49)
  "Linux garnered 2.1 percent of the desktop operating system [market]."


• PBS: How Apple is Using Open Source Software to Defeat Microsoft Without Appearing to Do So (Jul 21, 1999, 19:38)
  "...So why make the effort? Why did Apple bother open-sourcing this particular code? The simple reason is to harness the testosterone of the Linux and FreeBSD communities, but the real reason is to attack Microsoft..."


• LDN Journal: Startup State of Linux/i386 ELF Binary (Jul 21, 1999, 19:27)
  "Objective of this document is to describe some startup process details and initial state of stack & registers of ELF binary program, for Linux Kernel 2.2.x and 2.0.x."


• InfoWorld: IBM adds Linux section to developerWorks Web site (Jul 21, 1999, 18:55)
  "IBM here Tuesday announced it has beefed up its developerWorks Web site by adding Linux and Web architectures, changes that come directly from suggestions made as part of a visitor survey."


• ComputerWorld: CA unveils Linux apps (Jul 21, 1999, 18:55)
  "Computer Associates International Inc. yesterday announced availability of Linux versions of Unicenter TNG enterprise management software, MasterIT Web server management software and Ingres II relational database management development platform."


• IT-Analysis: Linux clustering to land next week (Jul 21, 1999, 18:47)
  "Giganet is expected to later this month launch a Linux version of its cLAN clustering software for the hugely popular free-source operating system."


• IT-Director: CA Rolls the Linux Bandwagon Forward (Jul 21, 1999, 18:45)
  "We expect that our early and aggressive support of Linux will bear the same fruit for us as did our early and aggressive support of NT, both platforms have had, and will continue to have, a profound impact on how processing power is deployed and distributed across the enterprise."


• IT-Director: Workfire recruits guru for Linux and Windows caching technology (Jul 21, 1999, 18:43)
  "Workfire's software runs only on Linux and Windows variants improving Internet access speed and optimising bandwidth utilisation..."


• AsiaBizTech: SGI Japan Takes on Server Market with Linux PC Server (Jul 21, 1999, 18:41)
  "SGI Japan Ltd. will release its first PC server this summer, and it intends to differentiate itself from competitors by focusing on Linux OS as its primary server OS."


• VNU Net: CA World: CA to give Unicenter TNG away 'licence free' on Linux (Jul 21, 1999, 18:40)
  "Computer Associates (CA) will give away its Unicenter TNG systems management application suite `licence free' to Linux users in a bid to boost the emerging operating system's installed base."


• CNET Hong Kong: Free the Code (Jul 21, 1999, 18:36)
  "The Open Source Movement goes Mainstream"


• Wired: Payback Time for Linux (Jul 21, 1999, 18:35)
  "In an email to members of the open source community Tuesday, Red Hat, a distributor of the Linux operating system, offered developers first crack at its pre-IPO shares."


• LinuxPR: LinSupport Solutions announces the launch of LinSupport.com (Jul 21, 1999, 18:31)
  "We are pleased to announce the launch of this new service for the Linux community. Up until now, there were no available low cost support solutions for end users and small businesses. Now there is."


• SourceGear Corporation Acquires Cyclic Software (Jul 21, 1999, 18:30)
  "SourceGear Corporation is a new identity for the company which has been behind the AbiSource project. We're announcing today that we've acquired Cyclic Software and that we intend to be involved with CVS development, maintenance, and support."


• LinuxPR: Applix Announces Second Quarter Revenues of $14.2 Million and EPS of $0.06 Per Share (Jul 21, 1999, 16:26)
  "Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ: APLX), today announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999. Revenues increased 15% to $14.2 million compared to $12.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 1998."


• PostgreSQL 6.5.1 Released (Jul 21, 1999, 08:21)
  "... focused on addressing any bugs or issues post-release (6.5)..."


• Linux Journal: Penguin Expands at Toronto's Comdex (Jul 21, 1999, 06:02)
  "I still have images in my head of last year's show, various Linux users' groups all crammed into an eight-by-ten-foot cubicle... Fade to Comdex 1999. The Linux booth is now a pavilion..."


• ZDNet: Evan Leibovitch -- Maple leaf Linux (Jul 21, 1999, 05:48)
  "Last week I was knee-deep in Comdex Canada... It was 10 to 20 times more impressive than last year..."


• Computer Currents/Newsbytes: Linux Appliances Hot (Jul 21, 1999, 05:43)
  "... the introduction of Microsoft's Windows 2000 server later this year will stem Linux's growth in the traditional server market, according to new research."


• Computer Currents/IT Daily: Chinese TurboLinux 4.0 (Jul 21, 1999, 05:26)
  "The announcement is expected to draw... heavyweight TurboLinux partners Oracle, IBM and HP."


• Security Portal: NMAP - not kiddiez stuff -- Industrial strength port scanning for Linux (Jul 21, 1999, 05:07)
  "Nmap is the premier open source port scanning tool, and provides several powerful methods to analyze weaknesses in a TCP/IP network..."


• PRNewswire: Computer Associates to Ship Enterprise-Ready Edition of Ingres II for Linux Platforms (Jul 21, 1999, 04:41)
  "... will begin shipping Ingres II with support for Linux platforms in the fourth quarter of this year."


• PRNewswire: Computer Associates Takes Lead in Linux Support (Jul 21, 1999, 04:34)
  "CA has clearly embraced Linux as a corporate computing platform..."


• PRNewswire: Computer Associates Delivers Linux-Based E-Commerce/Web Management Solution (Jul 21, 1999, 03:28)
  "MasterIT manages Linux machines running all popular supported Web servers, including Apache and Netscape."


• E-Commerce Times: Red Hat Moves on European Linux Market (Jul 21, 1999, 03:23)
  "... will work out of offices in London and Stuttgart, providing products and support."


• Samba 2.0.5 released. (Jul 21, 1999, 03:11)
  "This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes."


• TechWeb: No License Fee For CA's Linux Unicenter (Jul 21, 1999, 02:48)
  "Computer Associates International is kicking Microsoft right between the eyes, or so it seems."


• Wired: Caldera Eyes Linux, IPO (Jul 21, 1999, 01:57)
  "We have the opportunity to get big pretty quick," Sparks said."


• InfoWorld: CA extends Linux efforts (Jul 21, 1999, 01:53)
  "What this means is that not only can people manage Linux environments, but they actually can manage their entire enterprise from the Linux environment..."


• PC Week: Linux version of CA's Unicenter TNG system released (Jul 21, 1999, 01:45)
  Computer Associates International Inc. today announced it is shipping Linux versions of Unicenter TNG and two other products."