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The SourceXchange has started developer registration as a
step toward full operations. SourceXchange, remember, is meant to be a
broker bringing together open source developers and companies that wish to
pay to get a particular job done. Once they have developers in their
system, they expect to start putting up jobs and inviting proposals, in "a
few weeks." The plan is to have the initial jobs come out of HP, which is
one of the sponsors of the site. More information can be found on
the SourceXchange site.
The new Cosource.com site has gone live as well. Cosource appears to be the SourceXchange's
primary competitor; they have moved forward with a slick new site. They
have a number of development ideas up for discussion, but no paid jobs on
offer as yet.
It will be interesting to see how these two sites fare. If all goes well,
they should be able to do a lot toward encouraging the development of open
source software.
Greg Ungerer of Moreton Bay is presenting a technical paper at the Linux World Conference in
San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 11, 1999. In Mr. Ungerer's paper, "Building
Low Cost Embedded Network Appliances With Linux," he presents Linux as
the new standard for embedding in internet appliances and internet
devices.
Doug Bennett, President of Macmillan Computer Publishing USA is interviewed in the ECommerce Times about MacMillan's Linux
offerings.
This Reuters article (found at newsalert.com) looks at Linux, and how some companies are making money from the
free operating system.
New Products:
TurboLinux has issued a press release claiming that TurboLinux J 4.0 is the best
selling operating system in Japan - beating Windows and all others.
At least, during its first week on the shelves.
Red Hat has announced its E-Commerce Server product. It appears to be a
version of the 6.0 distribution with a number of goodies, like the
Apache SSL server, thrown in.
Press Releases:
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Ariel Corporation announced support for Red Hat Linux 6.0 on its
CompactPCI-based RS2000C remote access card.
- Compatible Systems Corporation announced that it has shipped a new
software release for its award-winning IntraPort family of VPN Access
Servers.
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Dialtone Internet announced the opening of a new Internet data
center facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They use Red Hat Linux
to power their servers.
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eSoft Inc., the company that develops and markets Linux-based
Internet access solutions for small businesses, announced its
preliminary, unaudited financial results for the quarter ending June
30, 1999.
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced it has joined Red Hat,
Inc.'s Independent Software Vendor Program (ISV) and will participate
in joint marketing activities with the developer and provider of open
source operating systems. The new relationship will give Linux users
easy access to all of Hummingbird's fat client connectivity products
including: Exceed; HostExplorer; NFS Maestro Server; NFS Maestro
Client; NFS Maestro Gateway; and NFS Maestro Solo.
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iCorps Technologies launched an array of Linux-related services
this week. The services are aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses
and will provide applications development, consulting, installation
and support.
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Informix Corporation announced the launch of the Informix Internet
Foundation.2000 platform, a fully extensible data and content
management platform for the Internet. Linux is among the supported
platforms.
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Innovative Gaming Corporation of America announced that Wayne
Mills, age 44, has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Mills
stated, "I am impressed with the technology behind their new PC
based video slot machine which utilizes the Linux operating
system."
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Insignia Solutions announced that it has joined the ARM
Partnership for Java program to further promote its implementation of
the Jeode platform for ARM processors. For ARM developers, the Jeode
platform is available initially for Linux on ARM.
- Loki Entertainment Software announced the launch of their new
website, www.lokigames.com.
- Linux International Board member, Magic Software Enterprises, announced that it had posted record
sales and earnings for the third quarter in a row.
- Medullas Publishing Company, parent company of 32BitsOnline
Magazine (www.32bitsonline.com), Linux Applications
(www.linuxapps.com) and Linux Talks (www.linuxtalks.com) announced
that it has renamed recently acquired Bleeding Edge Magazine to 0x20.com.
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Olicom announced that it will roll out support for Linux across
its entire line of Token-Ring, Ethernet and ATM network interface
cards.
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O'Reilly releases "MySQL and mSQL", a guide to using
these popular and robust database products that support key subsets of
SQL on both Linux and UNIX systems.
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Performance Technologies, Inc. announced the introduction of its
latest IP based WAN to LAN based communications server, the MPS800.
Operating system support includes Linux.
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Perle Specialix announced its commitment to deliver Linux drivers
to its complete line of serial I/O cards.
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Research Systems, Inc. announced the release of ENVI 3.2, an image
processing application used by earth science and GIS professionals for
the analysis of remote sensing data. ENVI is available for a number
of operating systems, including Linux.
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SuSE Linux 6.2 for x86 will be released worldwide on August 9.
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Unify Corporation announced the availability of its Unify VISION
AppBuilder and AppServer software for the Linux operating system.
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UniTrends Software Corp. announced that its entire line of storage
management, backup and crash recovery software is now available for
Linux.
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Vertex Industries, Inc. announced the signing of an agreement with
Xypro Technology Corporation of Simi Valley, California for their
XYGATE/SE Encryption software. The XYGATE/SE product will be
incorporated into the next version of the NetWeave middleware product,
and will provide DES and Triple DES encryption capabilities across the
range of NetWeave-supported platforms, including Linux.
Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.
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July 29, 1999
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