See also: last week's Commerce page.

Linux and Business

The Open K-12 petition drive. The Open K-12 Petition Drive is seeking to bring about changes in the proposed Microsoft settlement, on the theory that flooding U.S. schools with Microsoft software just isn't the way to break a monopoly. There are suggestions for a number of things that concerned people can do, as well as an online petition that can be signed. If you're concerned about this aspect of the settlement, you may want to take a look.

DaimlerChrysler's new Linux cluster. Here's a press release from AMD proclaiming its role in a new cluster set up by DaimlerChrysler. "Based on AMD's advanced multiprocessing solution, DaimlerChrysler is utilizing the strength of several hundred AMD Athlon MP processors in one of the largest high-performance Linux clusters in the German automotive industry, to run crash simulations for Mercedes-Benz vehicles."

IBM's iSeries test drive. IBM has announced a "test drive" program for its iSeries servers. They'll make a Linux partition available (running SuSE or Turbolinux) for people who want to give the server a spin over the net.

Dimensional Insight offers business intelligence tools. Dimensional Insight has announced that its full suite of "business intelligence" tools is available on IBM's servers under Linux.

Ximian announces Red Carpet Express. Ximian has announced a new variant on its Red Carpet service: Red Carpet Express. For $7.95/month, you get priority access to a special set of servers.

'Building Wireless Community Networks' from O'Reilly. O'Reilly has announced the release of Building Wireless Community Networks. The third chapter is available online for those who are interested.

Red Hat's third quarter results. Red Hat has announced its third-quarter results. The claim: a profit of $1.3 million "excluding amortization of goodwill and stock based compensation and restructuring charges." When everything is figured in, the bottom line is a loss of $15 million on revenue of $21.5 million.

WebSideStory says nobody is using Linux. Here's a press release from "WebSideStory," which has published a story detailing the "usage share" of each operating system. "For almost three years, Linux usage share has fluctuated between .2 and .3 percent, with no substantial growth. Usage share is the percentage of Internet surfers that are using a particular operating system."

Linux Stock Index for December 13 to December 19, 2001.
LSI at closing on December 13, 2001 ... 31.96
LSI at closing on December 19, 2001 ... 31.45

The high for the week was 31.96
The low for the week was 31.37

Press Releases:

Open source products

• Conostix S.A. (Luxembourg): IPFC (first MSS software) released in GPL.

• Free Software Foundation-China (): Free Software Magazine to be released under GNU FDL. .

Proprietary Products for Linux

• Ensim Corporation (SUNNYVALE, Calif.): Ensim Announces WEBppliance 3.0, Featuring a Broad Range of New Web Hosting Capabilities.

• FalconStor Software, Inc. (MELVILLE, N.Y.): FalconStor Partners With Conservor To Offer Integrated Storage Solutions and Services Over IP-Based Networks.

• Sistina Software (MINNEAPOLIS): Sistina's Global File System Version 5.0 Provides Enhanced Enterprise Functionality.

• VMGEAR (SAN JOSE, Calif.): VMGEAR Announces Immediate Availability of the Optimizeit Suite of Java Development Tools for Linux.

• Xi Graphics Inc. (DENVER): New Xi Graphics Driver Is First to Support Wildcat II on Linux; World's Fastest Graphics Now Available to Linux Users.

Products and Services Using Linux

• Century Embedded Technologies (SALT LAKE CITY, UT): Century and VT Media Technologies Announce Immediate Availability of Next Gen STB.

Products With Linux Versions

• ActiveState (VANCOUVER, BC): ActiveState's Komodo IDE Now Shipping for Linux & Windows.

• DiskXtender (ROCKVILLE, Md.): OTG Software Enhances Intelligence and Performance for Unix and Linux Storage Management Software.

• Get2Chip Inc. (SAN JOSE, Calif.): Get2Chip Unveils Architectural-Level Pipeline Synthesis Solution.

• Lazy Software (BOSTON): Lazy Software's Associative Model of Data Speeds Application Development Up to 30 Times Faster Than Relational Model.

• Softimage Co. (MONTREAL, Quebec): Softimage Ships Its Much Anticipated SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2.0.

• Wincor Nixdorf Inc. (AUSTIN, Texas): Wincor Nixdorf Reports Substantial Growth in Point-of-Sale Business in 2001; Company Adds 700 New Employees Worldwide.

Java Products

• Borland Software Corporation (SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.): Borland Delivers Web Services Development Environment for Java; Now Provides Infrastructure to Support Web Services Across Java, Windows, and Linux.

Books & Training

• Borland Software Corporation (SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.): Borland Delivers First Web Services Interactive Training Course; Leverages Latest Industry-Standard Technologies and Protocols for Web Services.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): New Edition of "Designing with JavaScript" Released by O'Reilly.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): "Physics for Game Developers" Released by O'Reilly.

• Sams Publishing (Indianapolis): Sams Publishing Provides a Fresh Approach to a Unix Classic.

• training, etc. (Columbia, Md.): Linux System Administration.

Partnerships

• Netegrity (SAN FRANCISCO): Netegrity Embeds Covalent's Apache-Based Web Technology into Netegrity SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server.

• WebGain, Inc. (SANTA CLARA, Calif.): WebGain, Inc. Joins Eclipse.org Board of Directors.

• Ximian, Inc. (BOSTON): Ximian and Hewlett-Packard Deliver Ximian GNOME Desktop Software for HP-UX Workstations; Companies Take First Step Toward Next-Generation HP-UX Desktop Environment.

Personnel & New Offices

• TimeSys (PITTSBURGH): TimeSys Adds Industry Veterans to Management Team.

Linux At Work

• Convera (VIENNA, Va.): Educational Content Aggregator bigchalk Adopts Linux Architecture for eLibrary Research Tool; Creates Largest Linux Installation of Convera's RetrievalWare.

• IBM (ARMONK, N.Y. & SAN DIEGO): IBM and GeneFormatics Partner to Accelerate Drug Discovery; Agreement Puts Information Technology to Work in Determining Protein Function and Structure.

Open Source at Work

• Open CASCADE (PARIS): Open CASCADE to Develop Cadpak Win Version 3.0 for Mitutoyo.

Other

• Borland Software Corporation (SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.): Intelligent Enterprise Selects Borland as a 2002 'Company to Watch'; Recognized for Outstanding Contributions in Infrastructure.

• Hewlett-Packard Company (SAN FRANCISCO): Hewlett-Packard Takes Exhibits to Next Level with DisplayWorks; begins with Linux World, Jan. 28-31 in New York City. .

• Lineo, Inc. (SALT LAKE CITY): Lineo update: products, executives, financing.

• Red Hat, Inc. (WASHINGTON): Red Hat CEO Tells Senate Judiciary Committee at Microsoft Hearing 'Monopolist has Seriously Warped the Technology Industry'.

• Red Hat, Inc. (RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.): Red Hat Dominates Industry Awards in 2001; Open Source Leader Receives Recognition for Corporate and Product Excellence.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.

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