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Linux and Business

Edward Felten drops DMCA case. Here's the latest EFF update on the Felten case, which sought to challenge the DMCA in U.S. federal court. "Citing assurances from the government, the recording industry, and a federal court that the threats against his research team were ill-conceived and will not be repeated, Professor Edward Felten and his research team decided not to appeal the November dismissal of their case by a New Jersey Federal Court."

Petition for open source in the Bundestag. Here is an online petition calling for the use of open source software in the German Bundestag, which is evidently considering which software it should be using in the future. "The signatories of this declaration have, due to the following arguments, come to the opinion, that to ensure economic competition, promote creative potential, secure the open market and generally re-emphasize the democratic aspects of German society, the German parliament would do well to support the introduction of free software as a prominent move towards the shaping of a new open society in the coming century." Not surprisingly, the petition's original form is in German. (Thanks to Joseph Eoff).

Open Source Achievements Rewarded At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. IDG World Expo presented the Open Source Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld. Winners include Borland's Kylix 2, Powercockpit from Turbolinux, MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux 2.0, Open WBEM from Caldera International, and several of Computer Associates' Unicenter products.

OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award goes to Andrew Tridgell. The Open Source Development Lab has announced that its "Enterprise Achievement Award" has been given to Samba hacker Andrew Tridgell.

Linux Professional Institute Announcements. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) made several announcements recently, including a special upgrade program aimed at holders of Sair Linux certifications; LPI at CeBit; a new initiative for supporting and funding international affiliate organizations; and LPI has named ProCert Labs as the official review body for a new Training Materials Program.

Cray and Dell to market Linux clusters. Once again, Cray has announced its intent to sell Linux clusters. This time the company is working with Dell. Cray provides the know-how, marketing, and support, and Dell provides the hardware.

Sleepycat releases Berkeley DB 4.0. Sleepycat Software has announced the release of Berkeley DB 4.0. New features include database replication (for high availability) and group commits.

IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation. IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation, by David Mosberger and Stéfane Eranian, has been published and is available in the stores. It appears to be a detailed volume which covers, in depth, the IA-64 architecture and how Linux was made to run on it.

The Red Hat Press launches. Hungry Minds has announced the founding of the Red Hat Press, which will publish a line of books about, you guessed it, Red Hat Linux.

Learning Red Hat Linux. "Learning Red Hat Linux", revised for v7.2, has been released by O'Reilly.

O'Reilly releases Practical PostgreSQL. O'Reilly has announced the release of Practical PostgreSQL by John C. Worsley and Joshua D. Drake.

Survey Provides New Insights Into 'Hacker' Culture. A BCG survey of 526 OSS community members looks at the motivations of software contributors. "By allowing consumers of its Mindstorm toy robot to rewrite its operating system and programming language, Lego increased the functionality to the user and outperformed its initial sales forecasts. Similarly, Harley Davidson relinquished control of its brand to its biker community, with overwhelmingly positive results."

January Netcraft Web Server Results. The January, 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey has been published. Apache usage is up this month.

Linux Stock Index for January 31 to February 06, 2002.
LSI at closing on January 31, 2002 ... 30.21
LSI at closing on February 06, 2002 ... 28.50

The high for the week was 30.39
The low for the week was 28.50

Press Releases:

Open Source Products

• Chinese Academy of Sciences (BEIJING, China): Intel And Chinese Academy Of Sciences Deliver Advanced Compiler Framework.

• XAO Inc. (PASADENA, Calif.): XAO Inc. Announces Availability of XAO Web Developer, a Complete Suite of Tools for Rapidly Developing Web Systems.

LinuxWorld Announcements

• Caldera International Inc. (OREM, Utah): Caldera-Sponsored OpenWBEM Project Wins Open Source Product Excellence Award; Award Recognizes Best Open Source Project at LinuxWorld Expo, New York.

• Compaq Computer Corporation (LinuxWorld Expo, NY): Compaq LinuxWorld News.

• Computer Associates International, Inc. (ISLANDIA, N.Y.): CA Wins Big at LinuxWorld; Unicenter Solutions Win Three Awards Including Best of Show .

• Overland Data Inc. (SAN DIEGO): Overland Data Recognized for Best Hardware in Linux Environments; Overland's Neo LXN2000 Tape Library Claims Prestigious Arkeia Power Award at LinuxWorld Expo.

Distributions and Bundled Products

• LynuxWorks (SAN JOSE, Calif.): LynuxWorks Announces BlueCat 4.0 Availability for the ARM920T Processor.

• SuSE Linux (NEW YORK): Linux Made Enterprise Ready: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries; Latest Result of SuSE Linux and IBM Joint Technology Collaboration.

• Xandros (NEW YORK): Xandros Launches Beta Program; Enlists the help of Linux users to finalize Xandros Desktop 1.0.

Proprietary Products for Linux

• alphaWorks (): alphaWorks tool: Enhanced Cluster Tools (ECT) for Linux.

• Aurora Technologies, Inc. (BROCKTON, MA): Free Aurora Linux Driver Emulates Ethernet Over Sync Serial Connection.

• GoAhead Software (BELLEVUE, Wash.): GoAhead Software Releases New Version of Service Availability Middleware; SelfReliant 2.0 is the Only Cross-Platform, Comprehensive Solution On the Market.

• Landmark Graphics, Corp. (DALLAS): Landmark Delivers Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation Products for the Linux Operating System.

Linux Hardware and Bundled Products

• AMD (LINUXWORLD, N.Y.): AMD's Multiprocessor Platform Certified for the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server and the Zeus Web Server.

• Intel (SANTA CLARA, Calif.): Hyper-Threading to be Introduced in Intel-based Servers This Quarter.

• SGI (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.): SGI to Redistribute Intel Software Development Products for Intel(R) Itanium(TM) Processor Family.

Embedded Linux Products

• EndRun Technologies (SANTA ROSA, Calif.): Lowest-Cost Network Time Server Introduced.

• Nokia and Macromedia (HELSINKI, Finland): Nokia and Macromedia Collaborate to Integrate Macromedia Flash Player with Nokia Mediaterminal.

• Team ASA Inc. (San Diego, CA): Team ASA Releases Dual Gigabit Ethernet NPWR Linux Engine with 733 MHz XScale CPU.

Products and Services Using Linux

• Modwest (): Shared and managed hosting company Modwest has found open source technologies make for a profitable niche market. .

• SWsoft, Inc. (S. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.): SWsoft Alliance Program Boosts .NET-like Software Sales for Macromedia, Versign, Miva, Planet Intra.

• Vineyard Networks (Seattle): New Linux startup: Vineyard Networks will build and host web pages, remote access via VPN, firewalls, SE (NSA) Linux, Windows clients, Samba, and custom database and web based applications. .

Products With Linux Versions

• BakBone Software (SAN DIEGO, CA): NEWS: BakBone Adds Module for Oracle9i.

• Borland Software Corp. (SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.): Borland Targets C++ Web Services Opportunity; Borland C++Builder 6 Enables Cross-Platform-Ready Windows/Linux Applications with Latest Web Services Technologies.

• Gordano Ltd. (NEW YORK): Gordano's Virus Protection Expands to Cover Linux and Solaris.

• NetIQ (ORLANDO, Fla.): NetIQ Announces Availability of First AppManager and XMP Modules to Monitor and Manage UNIX, Linux and Novell NetWare.

• SlickEdit Inc. (MORRISVILLE, N.C.): Visual SlickEdit Wins 2001 ''Riding the Crest'' Award.

Linux At Work

• RackSaver Inc. (SAN DIEGO): RackSaver Builds a 264 AMD Athlon MP Processor Supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz.

Java Products

• Lutris Technologies (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.): Lutris Announces Lutris EAS 4.1 Complete J2EE Java Services Platform.

• X-Hive Corporation (ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS): X-Hive Adds J2EE, WebDAV, and XUpdate to X-Hive/DB 2.0.

Books & Documentation

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): "Mastering Perl/Tk" Released by O'Reilly.

Other

• Eduventures, Inc. (BOSTON): Eduventures Releases New Study on Open Source Technology Solutions for Higher Education Market; Highlights Potential for Cost Reduction and More Robust E-Education Technologies.

• Evans Data Corp. (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.): New EDC Study Paints a Vivid Picture of Today's Software Developer.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.

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