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Linux and business

Applix has announced "its first open source initiative." It's yet another programming language. This one, called SHELF, seems to be aimed at the development of graphical user interfaces. See the announcement for more.

WebCMO has put out another survey, this one relates to adoption of, and satisfaction with, the various Linux distributions. Interestinly, they bunched all of the satisfaction numbers together - no information on individual distributions.

Troll Tech has jumped into the void and will be working on a port of the Opera web browser to Linux. They have a tremendously brief note available; more info is said to be forthcoming shortly. They will be demoing it at LinuxWorld; we'll try to have a look and report on what we see.

Press Releases:

• Linux Magazine announcing its debut. Picked up a copy here on the floor, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
• Corel, their new "easy to install", "invisible" version of Linuxl.
• Computer Associates, bundling Unicenter with Red Hat's distribution.
• Decision One and VA Research, putting together another Linux support organization.
• Linux Journal, Phil Hughes to be a regular guest on the "Bizness Soup Hi-Tech" radio show.
• VA Research and Intel, porting Linux to Merced.
• Penguin Computing, announcing record sales.
• Red Hat launching Linux portal.
• Oracle Oracle 8i for Linux.
• ZDNet, "Linux Superguide" on ZDTV.
• Infoseek, UltraSeek server for Linux.
• LinuxCare, public availability of their problem knowledgebase.
• Summit Strategies, analyst saying that "culture clash" and liability concerns could slow down Linux.
• Netscape, directory and messaging server for Linux available.
• HP, PA-Risc port.
• HP internal open source group.
• VA Research, got ownership of linux.com domain, will turn it into yet another portal site.
• Silicon Graphics. Embracing open source, release of some code.
• SAP AG, support for R/3 under Linux. This is one of the more important ones.
• Mylex, Linux support for RAID product.
• SpectraLogic hot Oracle backup support.
• Pacific Hitech web server cluster.
• Also note that Intel is buying a piece of VA Research.
• Dell announces an upgraded line of server machines. They can be ordered with Linux.
• MTI Technology announces their combined RAID product with Caldera. They also have announced an investement in Caldera itself.
• LinuxCare will be shipping "free support incident" coupons with Dell machines.
• Innovative Gaming has a new type of slot machine (gambling stuff) which runs on Linux. Hope they applied all the security patches...
• WebFOCUS has ported its "web reporting solution" to Linux.
• And here is Cygnus's press release describing their work enhancing gcc to take better advantage of modern Intel processors.

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