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Linux companies continue to make new partnerships, form alliances, and make deals to get their products better known and more available.

Red Hat, Inc. announced several deals aimed to improve their Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition product line. Computer Associates, Oracle, and SAP R/3 have already signed on, with more to follow. This Red Hat deal with RealNetworks was announced in seperate press release. We also continue to see announcements of this sort, telling us who uses Red Hat's software and service. In this case it's Kenwood Americas.

Lineo, Inc. announced deals with DaiShin Information & Communications Co., LTD and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co, Ltd. to use Lineo's Embedix products in their Internet appliance products. Lineo also announced that it will acquire Rt-Control Inc., founders and maintainers of the uClinux operating system, and the Lineo Embedix Browser for x86 is immediately available to OEM developers.

TurboLinux issued press releases about a partnership with Akopia and this one about three new European offices in Germany, the United Kingdom and Slovenia, and also this one telling us that Miralab, one of Asia's leading Internet incubator companies, has selected TurboCluster Server software for their business needs.

TheLinuxStore.com announced that they are carrying several new products, including a new version of its "PIA" product, Kingston products such as ValueRAM, and Merlin Software's PerfectBACKUP+ 6.2.

Merlin Software also announced an agreement with LinuxLand, which also includes packaging PerfectBACKUP+ with LinuxMandrake.

See the Partnerships, Investments and Acquisitions section of the press releases (below) for more examples.

CeBIT 2000, held in Hannover, Germany from February 24 to March 1, has been generating lots of press releases this week. There should be even more next week, when it actually gets going.

It sounds like they are going to have fun out there ... Illiad from User Friendly will be there. "Thanks to the fine folks over at SuSE Linux, I'll be attending CeBIT, quite possibly the largest technology show in the entire world." SuSE will be there in force, and they are hosting a few others including KDE.

MSC.Software announced they will demonstrate MSC.Patran running on Linux and Mission Critical Linux put out this press release on their participation.

Other notable items:

Copyleft has donated $10,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to aid the legal defense being mounted by the EFF in response to lawsuits by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA). "The lawsuits, directed at open source developers and web sites around the world, aim to suppress the source code that would allow DVD movies to be played on the Linux operating system."

Rob Kennedy, original founder of both the Linux documentation site Linux-Howto.com and the online Linux magazine Ext2.org, has joined Linsight. "'Working on the Linsight project is something I couldn't pass up,' said Rob Kennedy. 'Once I learned of their plans for the future, I realized that this was an exciting project that would be extremely rewarding to me.'"

Press Releases:

    Open Souce Products:

  • ATI announced further support for Linux by producing a software development kit for graphics accelerated video playback on its Rage 128 and Rage 128 Pro family of cards.

    Commercial Products for Linux:

  • Agranat Systems Inc. announced the release of EmWeb/SSL integration software.

  • HELIOS Software GmbH announced its PDF Internet Printing, an innovative feature of its PDF Handshake 2.0 to ship 2Q.

  • Inside Out Networks announced the release of Linux driver support for its Edgeport Series of USB-to-serial converter products.

  • McAfee announced the release of the VIPER software development toolkit for Linux that will allow 3rd parties to embed McAfee's virus scanning engine into programs.

  • The latest version of the license-restricted SSH Secure Shell, version 2.1, has been announced. People who want to stick with free software should look at OpenSSH instead.

  • Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced that its kernel solid modeling product, Parasolid, is now available on the Linux operating system.

    Products Using Linux:

  • Atmel Corporation announced the launch of its AT75C310 Smart Internet Appliance Processor IC, with an Embedded Linux operating system.

  • SSE Telecom, Inc. announced that it has shipped additional beta systems of its new iP3 broadband satellite Internet gateway platform.

    Java Products:

  • Imperial Software Technology announced that Visaj, its visual application builder for Java, now supports integration with Sun's Forte for Java, Community Edition integrated development environment (formerly known as NetBeans).

  • ProSyst Software AG presented it's "EmBedded Server" product for controlling a diverse array of devices in home appliance business networks.

    Linux Training:

  • Linuxcare, Inc. announced the expansion of its Linuxcare University authorized training partner program, with additional training centers throughout the United States and Canada.

  • The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is promising a chance at various goodies for the first 300 people to take the first LPI exam.

  • Netizen announced the creation of a new series of IT training courses: the "Fundamentals" series.

  • ProsoftTraining.com announced the launch of Version 4 of its Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) certification and course curriculum, which has increased emphasis on e-commerce and Linux throughout.

  • Symatrix Technology announced a partnership with Linuxcare to be the West Coast coordinator for the newly announced authorized training centers.

  • Global Knowledge Network will launch a series of live web seminars beginning March 1. The first seminar is called 'Installing Red Hat Linux...Without Losing Windows'.

    Products with Linux Versions:

  • AC&NC introduced the JetStor II-FC RAID, desktop sized SCSI/Fiber Channel disk array system.

  • Ardent Software, Inc. announced a Linux port for their Ardent DataStage Suite.

  • Butler International, Inc. announced that its Butler Technology Solutions Division (BTS) upgraded its application testing facility to support Linux based testing for applications.

  • eFax.com announced that its paid subscribers can now use any Internet-connected computer to send faxes and attachments to traditional fax machines.

  • HELIOS Software GmbH celebrated its first full year supporting Mac OS X Server and Linux with high-performance network server software.

  • HK Systems, Inc. announced Stockmaster/Express, a Warehouse Management Solution.

  • HostPro, the Web and application hosting arm of Micron Electronics, Inc., announced that it is now offering its customers more scalable and robust Web hosting packages providing increased server space, traffic and e-mail account aliases.

  • Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced the release of Exceed Web Version 2.1, a fully portal-integrated, Web-based Thin X solution.

  • LegacyJ Corp. announced availability of PERCobol Enterprise Version 2.4.

  • Maxtor Corporation announced the MaxAttach NAS 4000 rack mount server appliance, the newest member of Maxtor's family of network attached storage (NAS) appliances.

  • NovaStor Corp. announced that the latest release of its network backup software, NovaNET 8, supports the Benchmark DLT1 tape drive and DLT7 autoloader.

  • ParaSoft, provider of software error prevention and error detection solutions, announced the availability of their software tools for embedded development.

  • Riverbed Technologies announced a beta version of ScoutSync 3.5 for Linux/Unix.

  • SM&A Corporation unveiled System Blocks, an integrated suite of software tools for mission-critical environments that require continuous, around-the-clock operation.

  • Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a new board product, PCI-based SPARCengine Ultra AXe motherboard.

  • Tech Soft America announced the release of the free ParaHOOPS 3D Part Viewer built around TSA's powerful ParaHOOPS 3D Application Framework (3dAF) and Parasolid v11.1, Unigraphics Solutions' geometric modeling kernel.

  • Ultera Systems Inc. announced its entry into the DVD-Recordable market with its new DVD-R MultiMaster array controller.

  • UniBar, Inc. announced e-BARZ, an e-commerce version of the UniBar bar code printing software.

    Partnerships, Investments and Acquisitions:

  • American Power Conversion and Cobalt Networks, Inc. have a partnership agreement. Cobalt will recommend APC's rack-mount Smart-UPS uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), MasterSwitch Plus power distribution units (PDU), and Web/SNMP Management Card with the Cobalt RaQ server appliances.

  • Aplio, Inc. in partnership with Atmel Corporation, announced the distribution of the Aplio/TRIO Chip by ATMEL, under the name AT75C310. The AT75C310, features an Embedded Linux operating system, VoIP and Audio application software.

  • Atipa announced that it has received $30 million in investments from Soros Private Equity Partners LLC, TA Associates, and WR Hambrecht + Co.

  • Corel Corporation announced an expanded partnership with ASAP Software.

  • Dialtone Internet, Inc. announced the selection of the Cobalt RaQ 3 from Cobalt Networks, Inc.

  • eSoft Inc. announced that Gateway has committed to make a $25 million investment in the company. eSoft also announced a redphish software licensing and services agreement in which Gateway will provide turnkey Internet access solutions to small businesses.

  • internet.com announced the acquisition of PHPBuilder.com and LinuxProgramming.com.

  • LinuxWizardry, Inc. announced that a partnership agreement has been completed with Information Highway.com, Inc. to distribute and market their Linux-based Apprentice.

  • Perle Systems Limited announced its acquisition of Chase Research Limited, a leading supplier of serial connectivity products to the Unix/Linux and NT marketplaces.

  • SCO and SuSE Linux AG announced an agreement to offer SCO Professional Services to SuSE customers, worldwide.

  • Screen Media A/S and Opera Software A/S announced a technology and marketing alliance in which the companies will work together to embed Opera Software's Opera for Linux-NanoX browser in Screen Media's FreePad Web Terminal.

  • Showstar Online.com, Inc. announced that it has entered into a exclusive business agreement with Compucon Computers to market and support Showstar's Linux-based Internet software solutions.

  • Silicon Motion, Inc. announced that Transmeta has selected its Lynx EM+ graphics solution for its Crusoe reference design.

  • Sumisho Datacom and Internet Pro Corporation (IPC) have chosen RAS (Remote Access Server) products from Digi International Inc. to help build Linux-based Internet point-of-presence (POP) servers for Japan's community of Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

  • Trend Micro, Inc. announced its agreement to acquire a majority ownership interest in Nippon Unisoft Corporation. This will give Trend Micro access to Unisoft's Linux technology.

  • VA Linux Systems, Inc. announced that HomePage.com has selected VA Linux to provide Linux servers and installation services for its Internet infrastructure.

  • WAPHead! has signed a collaboration agreement with IBM, to provide WAPicq service. Based on IBM's latest DB2 on Linux, WebSphere and clustering technology, WAPHead! aims to provide a non-stop instant messaging solution.

    Other:

  • ClickHouse.com Online Inc. restated its commitment to privacy protection through the non-invasive nature of its advertising systems.

  • Hummingbird Communications Ltd. reported an increase in sales for the quarter ended December 31, 1999. A partnership with SuSE and the introduction of several products for Linux have helped to make that possible.

  • Kenwood Americas Corporation uses Red Hat Linux to run business-critical applications in its headquarters.

  • Maxspeed Corp., maker of Linux desktop devices, announced the appointment of David W. McAllister as the company's chief technology officer.

  • RON's Datacom, Beijing, announced that Mr Hong Feng has been chosen as its new Executive Director. In his previous position, Mr. Hong Feng was Chief Editor of O'Reilly Beijing, and he has been one of the strongest promoters of the Open Sources philosophy in China.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.


February 24, 2000

 

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