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New websites from IBM, Caldera and Nokia/CollabNet. IBM's new Linux Web portal provides an easy way to get to all of the company's Linux products and services, and find out all the latest IBM/Linux news.

Caldera launched the Caldera Developer Network, a web site for Caldera developers, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), corporate in-house developers and members of the Open Source developer community. Members will have early access to UNIX and Linux technologies.

Nokia teamed up with CollabNet to launch ostdev.net. The site will support developers in the open source community and help to promote the collaborative development of the Open Standards Terminal (OST). The OST is a platform for home entertainment applications. It is based on Open Source technologies, such as Linux, XFree86 and Mozilla, and provides a platform for developing applications for a variety of electronic devices including: broadcast and digital TV, digital video recording, web browsing, gaming etc.

Nokia, Loki in Agreement to Distribute Linux Games with Nokia Media Terminal. Nokia and Loki Software announced an agreement to make Linux games from Loki available on the Nokia Media Terminal. As part of the agreement, Linux-based games from Loki will be pre-installed on the Media Terminal.

Free Software Leaders Stand Together. Bruce Perens has written what he (and probably everyone else) hopes is the final response to the recent ramblings of Craig Mundie from Microsoft. "If you do choose to incorporate GPL code into a program, you will be required to make the entire program Free Software. This is a fair exchange of our code for yours, and one that will continue as you reap the benefit of improvements contributed by the community. However, the legal requirements of the GPL apply only to programs which incorporate some of the GPL-covered code - not to other programs on the same system, and not to the data files that the programs operate upon."

It's signed by many of the biggest names in the Free Software and Open Source world.

MSC.Software installs cluster at Boeing. MSC Software has announced the installation of a Linux cluster at Boeing. It does fluid dynamic computations, was up and running in three hours, and, they say, has already saved Boeing a bunch of money.

American Megatrends Inc. Introduces PC Diagnostic Solution for Linux. American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) announced the development of AMIDiag for Linux. AMIDiag for Linux supports all major Linux distributions including those from Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake.

FileMaker adds Linux platform support. FileMaker has announced support for Linux for their FileMaker Server 5.5 database server package in a company press release. The package will be Red Hat Certified, though no other distributions are specifically mentioned.

Nevrax Unveils Free Software-Based Persistent World. This press release notes the release of the NeL, the Free-Software-based platform for massively multi-user online persistent worlds. Perhaps even more interesting though is that Michel Teyssedre, vice president, Worldwide Telecom Server Sales, IBM Enterprise Server Group and Richard Stallman will join the Nevrax board of directors.

SuSE announces support for IBM iSeries. SuSE has put out a press release regarding their planned support for the upcoming rerelease of the IBM iSeries (aka the old AS/400 line).

EBIZ Releases Earnings Statement. EBIZ, the company which absorbed LinuxMall last year, reported an increase in revenue from $2.2 million to $8.4 million.

Covalent Named to Upside Magazine's 'Hot 100'. Apache product and service vendor Covalent has been named to Upside Magazine's Hot 100 Private Companies for 2001.

Ransom Love responds to license issues.. Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera, posted a note late Friday to the Caldera announcement list stating his company's commitment to the open source model through the use of multiple licenses.

Borland announces expansion into China. Borland announced plans to expand its presence in the People's Republic of China with the opening of representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai.

Linux Stock Index for May 10 to May 16, 2001.

LSI at closing on May 10, 2001 ... 32.55
LSI at closing on May 16, 2001 ... 32.49

The high for the week was 32.55
The low for the week was 31.64

Press Releases:

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Proprietary Products for Linux

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Financial Results

Linux At Work

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Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.


May 17, 2001

 

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