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Confirmed: Red Hat buys Cygnus. Confirming our report from last week, Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Cygnus Solutions for $674 million in stock. This move positions Red Hat well for a move into the embedded systems arena, and brings in a lot of other skills as well. For more information, see our talk with Donnie Barnes at Comdex.

A new cluster from SGI. A special session held on Monday at the Supercomputing '99 show demonstrated a cluster based on the Intel Itanium chips. The session was sponsored by SGI and the National Computational Science Alliance and featured speakers from the NCSA, Intel and SGI. "The high-performance computing community is at a critical juncture in its history. The community will either continue down its familiar path of company proprietary software and RISC processor building blocks or begin to move toward a new model of high-performance computing based on commodity, high-volume parts and common software building blocks," said Larry Smarr, Director, National Computational Science Alliance and its leading-edge site, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). "The NCSA will aggressively pursue this new model."

Intel invests in eSoft eSoft, maker of Linux-based server systems, has announced an investment from Intel. eSoft's stock price has responded accordingly - see the LWN Linux Stock Page for the latest.

Creative announces open source SB Live driver. Creative Technology has finally gotten around to announcing the open source SB Live driver it released a couple of weeks ago. "The release of this open source driver marks a 'first' for Creative, and is expected to generate a wealth of supporting applications for the Sound Blaster Live! family of cards running on all major Linux kernel versions."

New LinuxMall site launches The Linux Mall has announced its "grand reopening" with a new, redesigned site.

VA Linux Systems sets IPO price VA Linux Systems Inc. set its initial public offering at 4.4 million common shares in a projected price range of $11-13 per share.

Press Releases:

    News from Comdex/Linux Business Expo:

  • Ambient Technologies, Inc. announced that it has developed Linux drivers for its Host Accelerated Modem (HaM) PCI and Mini-PCI chipsets.

  • Bittco Solutions announced the release for Linux of a commercial software tool for searching and visualizing the Web, called NetReality.

  • Conectiva, Brazil's leading distributor of Linux, is exhibiting its products to the North-American market at the Linux Business Expo'99.

  • Corel Corporation announced that the Corel LINUX OS is now available as a not-for-charge download.

  • Global Media Corp. announced that it has won the Best Overall Solution Award at the Penguin Playoffs in the Linux Expo.

  • GraphOn Corporation announced it has acquired a U.S. patent for the remote display of Microsoft Windows applications on UNIX and Linux desktops with X Windows.

  • LSI Logic Corporation announced a Linux open-source operating system initiative that will expand its suite of software drivers supporting Symbios-brand SCSI and Fibre Channel devices. LSI Logic has been demonstrating its Linux solution during Comdex in Room N206, upstairs in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

  • Microtest Inc. unveiled introduction plans for the FileZerver line, the latest addition to its family of network attached storage appliances.

  • Omnis Software is previewing version 2.3 of their Rapid Application Development tool OMNIS Studio at both the Caldera Systems and VA Linux booths.

  • PC Magazine announced the winners of its Technical Excellence Awards. Linus Torvalds was named Person of the Year.

  • SuSE previewed SuSE Linux 6.3 at the Linux Business Expo. The release will be available December 1.

  • Transmeta Corp. is working on what it says is a "smart" microprocessor, and more details will be coming Jan. 19, Linus Torvalds said at the tail end of his keynote address at Comdex.

  • TurboLinux has a cute press release announcing their presence at the LBE.

    Products for Linux:

  • Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced comprehensive and open VPN/Security solutions for the Linux operating system.

  • Coresoft Technologies, Inc. announced CenterPoint for Linux, an extensible voice and unified messaging platform.

  • Dialogic has announced Linux support for its core family of PCI products.

  • Dialtone Internet has announced a deal where they will give away Linux-based systems to customers who sign up for three years of Internet service.

  • eFax.com announced a distribution partnership with Corel Corporation to offer its eFax Free service and a trial for sending faxes with every Corel LINUX OS Deluxe version software package.

  • Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. announced the availability of its EnlightenDSM for Red Hat product and the worldwide launch of its Internet e-commerce strategy and Web site, http://www.enlightendsm.com.

  • KYZO announced the availability of its "PizzaBox Linux" preloaded on a bootable flash ROM.

  • Merlin Software Technologies Inc. announced PerfectBACKUP+ 6.1, available to clients worldwide through the company's web site www.merlinsoftech.com.

  • Mission Critical Linux has released a Linux crash analyzer. We now have two of them, given that SGI released a similar tool last week...

  • No Starch Press announced The No BS Guide to Red Hat Linux.

  • The Numerical Algorithms Group and The Portland Group, Inc. announced an optimized version of the NAG Fortran Library for Intel processor-based Linux workstations, servers and clusters.

  • Penguin Computing announced a new eight-way server system.

  • RSA Security Inc. has announced that Red Hat has licensed RSA's "BSAFE SSL" code for the Red Hat "Professional Edition."

  • VA Linux is shipping a new rackmount server. "The FullOn 2x2 rackmount server is optimized for Linux server applications ranging from Apache Web serving to Beowulf clustering."

    Products that also come in Linux:

  • 1MAGE Software, Inc. announced eServer, a communication portal that is supported by any Internet Service Provider.

  • CRYPTOCard announced its introduction of two new authentication tokens - the KF-1 Key Fob token and the PT-1 token for Palm handheld devices.

  • Etnus announced TotalView 4.0, the first parallel debugger to support multiple development platforms for both UNIX and Linux.

  • Exabyte Corporation announced the Mammoth-2 (M2) tape drive.

  • LizardTech Inc. announced its MrSID Image Server 2.2, a MrSID Portable Image Format image-serving toolkit for Web servers, designed to deliver high-quality images to any standard Web browser.

  • MapQuest API for Oracle8i allows Oracle8i database installations to deploy MapQuest's comprehensive mapping, routing and geocoding capabilities in a developer-friendly environment.

  • Micromuse Inc. announced plans to deliver the NETCOOL/OMNIbus application on the RedHat Linux operating system.

  • National Semiconductor Corporation announced that Infomatec AG will port its custom Linux-based basic platform Java Network Technology operating system to the National Geode WebPAD platform.

  • Objectivity, Inc. announced the general availability of Objectivity/DB Release 5.2.

  • Open Market, Inc. announced the latest version of its easy-to-use, browser-based store building product, ShopSite 4.2.

  • PathLink Technology Corp. announced its Direct Read News Usenet multimedia interface is now available, free of charge, at the company's http://newsadmin.com site.

  • Paul Nolan Ltd announced that the graphics package Photogenics will soon be available for Linux.

  • Perseus Development Corporation announced the release of SurveySolutions Enterprise for users of Oracle, SQLServer and MYSQL databases.

  • Quantum3D Inc. unveiled detailed specifications for AAlchemy, the Company's new family of advanced realtime 3D graphics subsystems that exploits the scalability of the newly announced 3dfx VSA-100 graphics chip technology.

  • VPDisk.com, Inc. makes the Personal-Lite Edition of its Virtual Private Disk product free to the Linux community.

    Partnerships:

  • Caldera Systems, Inc. and CSV Technologies Inc. announced a strategic alliance. Caldera instructors will use CSV Technologies EZTerm for Linux in their Educational Services program for business.

  • eFax.com announced a distribution partnership with Corel Corporation to offer its eFax Free service and a trial for sending faxes with every Corel LINUX OS Deluxe version software package.

  • First International Computer, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Caldera Systems, Inc. the Linux for eBusiness leader, to bundle Caldera's Open Linux 2.3 O/S with its PC systems.

  • LinuxOne and Maxspeed have announced a deal where LinuxOne will be developing wireless connectivity for Linux using the "Bluetooth" protocol.

  • Mission Critical Linux issues this press release regarding their planned participation at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.

  • The Portland Group, Inc. and the Ohio Supercomputer Center announced the formation of a strategic alliance to enable and promote the use of Linux cluster systems for parallel computing throughout Ohio's public and private colleges and universities.

  • SCO and TurboLinux announced the immediate availability of two service packages that will provide TurboLinux customers with SCO Professional Consulting Services.

  • SuSE and Enhanced Software Technologies have announced a partnership. What this partnership will actually do is not particularly clear from the release, however.

  • SuSE and VALinux have announced a co-development partnership. "We're happy to be working with SuSE, which has long been a popular Linux distribution among businesses and end users worldwide," said Dr. Larry M. Augustin, president and CEO of VA Linux Systems. "We look forward to being able to provide SuSE Linux on our systems as an option to our customers."

    Other:

  • Be Computing, Inc. announced that the company changed its name to Geek Teknologies, Inc.

  • Covalent Technologies announced that it has gotten an export license to sell its version of Apache with SSL encryption - Raven SSL - overseas. They are currently only authorized to export 56-bit encryption, however.

  • Digital River announced its plans to manage e-commerce for SuSE Inc.

  • DigitalWork.com a "Do-It-Yourself" business agency, announced its new Web site at www.digitalwork.com.

  • LinuxPPC has been nominated for Macworld magazine's Editor's Choice Award.

  • LinuxStart is giving away a Penguin Computer. Contest ends Nov. 30.

  • O'Reilly & Associates released "Unix Backup & Recovery".

  • Red Hat, Inc. announced the Red Hat Ready Program, a comprehensive hardware certification program for ensuring hardware compatibility with the Red Hat Linux OS.

  • Red Hat Inc. and American Power Conversion (APC) announced that APC's Linux-based power protection solutions are the first computer peripherals to receive the Red Hat Ready Logo.

  • TurboLinux announced its English language desktop and server products are available at more than 1,600 leading retail stores in North America, including CompUSA, Staples and Fry's Electronics.

  • Ziatech sent us the 'Applied Computing Innovations' newsletter for November.

Section Editor: Jon Corbet.


November 18, 1999

 

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