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Linux and business

Andreas Sikkema wrote in to give us a pointer to a firewall for Linux now available from IONA Technologies. Their emphasis is Inter-ORB support. The arrival of the Inter-ORB Interoperability Protocol (IIOP) means that CORBA is now ready for the Internet. The availability of the Firewall for Linux can be confirmed on their availability page.

There is an article in Red Herring about how the Google search engine is being turned into a commercial endeavor. The article never mentions it, but Google runs on Linux.

A couple more Linux system VAR's have announced their presence this week. Sunset systems seems to specialize in low-cost systems ("Home of the $500 Linux computer"). Wheat Computers sells systems preinstalled with the Mandrake distribution and KDE.

Cobalt Networks (maker of cool, low-cost, Linux-based servers) has found a big-league investor in the form of France Telecom; see Cobalt's press release for more. (Found in NNL).

Press Releases:

• Exide Electronics was selected as the official UPS provider for the Atlanta Linux Showcase
• alphaWorks has put out a variety of new Java packages
• IDG Web Publishing Inc., announcing the launch of LinuxWorld.
• Arcnet, putting out a CD with some Linux drivers on it.
• Check Point Software Technologies, IP address management system.
• SciComp, Inc., "SciFinance" derivative pricing system. Prices start at $100,000.
• Arm Holdings, new generation of ARM processors.
• Oracle, "Internet seminars", try and buy Oracle for Linux on the web.
• M-Systems single-chip flash disk.
• Xi Graphics is shipping a limited quantity edition of a new product
• LSL is shipping a CD with Red Hat's Rawhide
• MathSoft and Red Hat are partnering to sell the S-Plus data analysis system.
• Alteon, Gigabit ethernet for Linux.
• Objectivity announces support for their object database on Linux.
• Allaire has finally officially announced their much-rumored port of Cold Fusion to Linux.

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