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Linux Professional Institute gains sponsors. The Linux Professional Institute, which is developing a certification program for Linux system administrators, has announced a corporate sponsorship program. Initial sponsors include Caldera, SuSE, LinuxCare, Starnix, and Digital Creations; some of them are in for significant amounts of money. The LPI has, at this point, gained a lot of momentum; they seem to be well on the way toward achieving their goals.

Draft SourceXchange developer agreement available. The SourceXchange has put up the first draft of its developer agreement. It is pages of legalese describing how developers will work in the SourceXchange program. They are looking for comments...

A new SuSE program. SuSE has announceda new "business partner" program. "The Business Partner Program includes priority support, training, a moderated private online forum, and access to a knowledge base, among other features. Qualified Partners are those who seek to offer Linux services and want to benefefit from association with the SuSE brand."

Linux Mall gets into the hardware business. The Linux Mall is now selling Linux-installed computers, in partnership with Workstation 2000. See the announcement for details.

The race to the bottom continues; it is now possible to buy a $398 computer with Linux from S.A. Computer.

ImageStream has announced a set of Linux-based routers. "ImageStream routers include the 'Enterprise Linux(TM)' distribution which enables network administrators to quickly and easily install and deploy high-speed LAN and WAN connections." (Thanks to Jim Ernsberger).

A commercial site for open source projects. A site called XNOT has announced its existence. They intend to provide resources for open source projects: web space, mailing lists, etc. There will be a charge to the projects for this. They also intend to run banner ads, and return a portion of the revenue from the project pages back to the projects. It will be interesting to see if this works.

Press Releases:

Actiontec Electronics, Inc. announced broad-based support of Linux throughout its entire range of modems and desktop computer PC Card readers.
Apropos Retail Management Systems Inc., a software provider, announced an agreement with Intrawest Corp., a destination resort operator, to create a Resort Rental add-on module for the Apropos System. One of the first deployments of the new system will be Intrawest's newly-acquired Breeze/Max chain of rental shops based in Denver, Colorado. The Breeze/Max stores will be installed with the Linux operating system.
AvTel Communications Inc. announced that its Internet Services Group will begin providing technical support to their Linux customers.
Cygnus Solutions nnounced the availability of Sourceware(TM) CD, a subscription program for the open-source software projects hosted by Cygnus at http://sourceware.cygnus.com.
eSoft Inc. announced redphish(TM), a program that enables third parties to license eSoft's Linux Internet server engine and professional engineering services.
Live Software Inc. announced that their internet development and deployment platform, JRun, will be included with the Red Hat Linux 6.0 distribution on the Linux Applications CD.
Magic Software Enterprises ramps up Linux support by joining the board of directors of Linux International, porting their eMerchant software to Linux, and they introduced "The Magic for Linux Really Cool Contest".
Mercury Interactive Corporation introduced a Linux version of their load testing tool, LoadRunner.
Miller Freeman Inc. announced the availability of "The Commercialization of Linux," a market research report which examines how and when Linux will be brought into corporate IT infrastructures.
NBase-Xyplex announced the implementation of Multiprocessing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) software in the company's OSR8040 Open System Linux switch router.
PC World announced the winners of the publication's 17th annual World Class Awards. Linux received the "Most Promising Software Newcomer" award.
Penguin Computing Inc. teamed up with Ecrix Corporation, offering the Ecrix VXA-1(TM) tape drive on all of its Linux servers.
Penguin Computing Inc. teamed up with Linux Online to promote the Linux Operating System. They have devised a giveaway that they expect will attract thousands of new visitors to the Linux Online site.
PFU America, Inc. introduced its new "Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite", a compact size keyboard equipped with the UNIX key layout.
SolidWorks Corporation announced that the SolidWorks Java(tm) Viewer is fully compatible with the Linux(tm) kernel 2.0x operating system available from Red Hat Software,(R) Inc. in version 5.2.
Spatial Inc. and Tech Soft America announced the availability of ACIS(R)-enabled HOOPS(R)/AFC from TSA. This is a 3-D modeling program with a Linux version.
TheLinuxStore.com redesigns web site and lowers prices.
Vovida Networks, Inc. announced an IP (Internet Protocol) telephone call using an MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol) stack running on the Linux operating system, and the expected end-of-the-month free commercial release of the source code for the stack.
White Pine Software, Inc., announced plans to support the Linux operating system for its MeetingPoint conference server.

Section Editor: Jon Corbet.

June 10, 1999

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