See also: last week's Commerce page.

Linux and business

The new Cosource.com site has gone live as well. Cosource appears to be the SourceXchange's primary competitor; they have moved forward with a slick new site. They have a number of development ideas up for discussion, but no paid jobs on offer as yet.

It will be interesting to see how these two sites fare. If all goes well, they should be able to do a lot toward encouraging the development of open source software.

Greg Ungerer of Moreton Bay is presenting a technical paper at the Linux World Conference in San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 11, 1999. In Mr. Ungerer's paper, "Building Low Cost Embedded Network Appliances With Linux," he presents Linux as the new standard for embedding in internet appliances and internet devices.

Doug Bennett, President of Macmillan Computer Publishing USA is interviewed in the ECommerce Times about MacMillan's Linux offerings.

This Reuters article (found at newsalert.com) looks at Linux, and how some companies are making money from the free operating system.

New Products:

TurboLinux has issued a press release claiming that TurboLinux J 4.0 is the best selling operating system in Japan - beating Windows and all others. At least, during its first week on the shelves.

Red Hat has announced its E-Commerce Server product. It appears to be a version of the 6.0 distribution with a number of goodies, like the Apache SSL server, thrown in.

Press Releases:

• Ariel Corporation announced support for Red Hat Linux 6.0 on its CompactPCI-based RS2000C remote access card.

• Compatible Systems Corporation announced that it has shipped a new software release for its award-winning IntraPort family of VPN Access Servers.

• Dialtone Internet announced the opening of a new Internet data center facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They use Red Hat Linux to power their servers.

• eSoft Inc., the company that develops and markets Linux-based Internet access solutions for small businesses, announced its preliminary, unaudited financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 1999.

• Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced it has joined Red Hat, Inc.'s Independent Software Vendor Program (ISV) and will participate in joint marketing activities with the developer and provider of open source operating systems. The new relationship will give Linux users easy access to all of Hummingbird's fat client connectivity products including: Exceed; HostExplorer; NFS Maestro Server; NFS Maestro Client; NFS Maestro Gateway; and NFS Maestro Solo.

• iCorps Technologies launched an array of Linux-related services this week. The services are aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses and will provide applications development, consulting, installation and support.

• Informix Corporation announced the launch of the Informix Internet Foundation.2000 platform, a fully extensible data and content management platform for the Internet. Linux is among the supported platforms.

• Innovative Gaming Corporation of America announced that Wayne Mills, age 44, has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Mills stated, "I am impressed with the technology behind their new PC based video slot machine which utilizes the Linux operating system."

• Insignia Solutions announced that it has joined the ARM Partnership for Java program to further promote its implementation of the Jeode platform for ARM processors. For ARM developers, the Jeode platform is available initially for Linux on ARM.

• Loki Entertainment Software announced the launch of their new website, www.lokigames.com.

• Linux International Board member, Magic Software Enterprises, announced that it had posted record sales and earnings for the third quarter in a row.

• Medullas Publishing Company, parent company of 32BitsOnline Magazine (www.32bitsonline.com), Linux Applications (www.linuxapps.com) and Linux Talks (www.linuxtalks.com) announced that it has renamed recently acquired Bleeding Edge Magazine to 0x20.com.

• Olicom announced that it will roll out support for Linux across its entire line of Token-Ring, Ethernet and ATM network interface cards.

• O'Reilly releases "MySQL and mSQL", a guide to using these popular and robust database products that support key subsets of SQL on both Linux and UNIX systems.

• Performance Technologies, Inc. announced the introduction of its latest IP based WAN to LAN based communications server, the MPS800. Operating system support includes Linux.

• Perle Specialix announced its commitment to deliver Linux drivers to its complete line of serial I/O cards.

• Research Systems, Inc. announced the release of ENVI 3.2, an image processing application used by earth science and GIS professionals for the analysis of remote sensing data. ENVI is available for a number of operating systems, including Linux.

• SuSE Linux 6.2 for x86 will be released worldwide on August 9.

• Unify Corporation announced the availability of its Unify VISION AppBuilder and AppServer software for the Linux operating system.

• UniTrends Software Corp. announced that its entire line of storage management, backup and crash recovery software is now available for Linux.

• Vertex Industries, Inc. announced the signing of an agreement with Xypro Technology Corporation of Simi Valley, California for their XYGATE/SE Encryption software. The XYGATE/SE product will be incorporated into the next version of the NetWeave middleware product, and will provide DES and Triple DES encryption capabilities across the range of NetWeave-supported platforms, including Linux.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.

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