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Cyclic drops out of the CVS support business. Cyclic Software has announced that it will stop selling support contracts for CVS - the version control system used in many, many projects. This move seems to have a lot more to do with the owner's personal goals than with problems with the business itself - this page at Cyclic claims that Cyclic was a profitable and growing business. The page also points out areas in which the business could have been improved. There may well be an opportunity there for somebody interested in picking up this line of work.

Enterprise Java Beans from Groupe Bull. Groupe Bull has released its "Enterprise Java Beans" package - a set of Java classes for large enterprise resource management tasks. Their press release states that the software will be released under an open source license; if you go to the Enterprise Java Beans web site you will find, instead, a license which is most certainly not open source. One assumes that they haven't gotten around to changing it yet...

Some information can also be found in slides from Bull's announcement presentation at the Europe-Japan Conference on Linux and Free Software.

Insight debugger source release. Cygnus will be releasing the source to their "Insight" debugger (aka "GDBtk") according to this press release. Actual availability will be some time in July.

New systems - big. Alta Technology has announced a new set of Pentium III-based cluster systems. These boxes have eight complete nodes (single or dual processor) in a single case. High-speed interconnects are available, and the boxes are "stackable" to produce larger clusters. Definitely a nice number cruncher.

New systems - small. At the other end of the scale, The Computer Underground has announced a $499 system which includes networking, sound, and speakers. "Limit two per customer."

A Linux endowed chair? Vovida Networks, Inc. is sponsoring a corporate seat for the Linux community on the International Softswitch Consortium. Linux developers can find additional information about the position and register for the seat at the Vovida Networks website. An election will be held in conjunction with the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (San Jose) for the seat.

IBM signs another deal. Caldera Systems, Inc. and IBM have announced a joint development, marketing and support agreement to promote the Linux operating system.

Press Releases:

Alpha Processor, Inc. and Atipa Linux Solutions, a manufacturer of Linux workstations, servers and clusters, announced a partnership to provide more powerful, affordable and reliable Linux solutions to the enterprise marketplace.
BeOpen.com, the cross-platform Open Source applications company, announced the release of its fourth-generation enterprise software development and information management tools as Open Source Software.
EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. announced plans to introduce the first true Linux-based Personal Internet Appliance.
The Industry Standard published its inaugural selection of "The NET 21". Most Important Software Developer - Runner-Up: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux.
IndyBox Systems, a new dual Xeon processor system.
Microworkz.com has a $199.00 computer with a custom-built interface based on BeOS.
PC Week announced the 1999 Winners' Circle awards. The Compaq Computer Corp.'s AlphaServer DS10 Linux Cluster was a finalist for Best Infrastructure Hardware and Software
Red Hat, Inc. announced the availability of on-site professional services.
Sandstorm Enterprises Inc. released the first version of TCP.demux, a TCP/IP session reconstruction utility. It runs on a wide variety of platforms, including RedHat Linux 5.1.
Seagate Technology, Inc. announced that its entire line of tape backup drives has been certified with Linux.
Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that PC users running Linux can utilize the Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel monitor as their display system. Linux support is now available for owners of the Digital Flat Panel Solution Pack bundle of the Silicon Graphics 1600SW monitor and the Number Nine Revolution IV-FP graphics accelerator.
Star Division announced the shipment of the Professional, Business, and Enterprise Editions of the StarOffice 5.1 premium office productivity suite. StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition has been available for free to non-commercial individual users via internet download. Star Office is supported under Linux.
SuSE and Metrowerks team up to bring development tools to SuSE Linux.
Versant Corporation is offering a Linux version of its object-oriented database management system.
Vovida Networks, Inc. announced the first free commercial release of an MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol) and RTP (Real Time Transport Protocol) source code running on the Linux operating system.
VServers announced it will offer the Linux-based VServer RAQ2 to its product offerings using Cobalt Networks' RaQ 2 server appliances.
XIOtech Corp., manufacturer of the centralized storage system MAGNITUDE, announced that the MAGNITUDE now supports the Linux operating system.
Ziatech Corp. announced an agreement with MontaVista Software Inc. that provides an embedded version of the Linux operating system on Ziatech's CompactPCI development systems and single board computers.
Ziff-Davis announced that the Open Source Forum is attracting leading IT executives as evidenced by those already pre-registered.

Section Editor: Jon Corbet.

July 1, 1999

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