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Linux and business


The LWN Linux Stocks Page (at http://lwn.net/stocks/) has generated quite a bit of feedback over the last week or so. Many thanks for all of your comments. Expect an updated version in a week or two. A few things were suggested numerous times; here's what we plan to do:
  • Market capitalization information (the value of all outstanding stock) was often requested. It will be there shortly.

  • Charts of the Linux Stock Index showing its history. It's coming, once the index actually has some history.

  • An explanation of how the index is calculated will also be made available shortly. The calculation of the index will change to something that, hopefully, makes more sense as well.

  • A third tier for companies which do a little bit of Linux business. We may add that at some point, but such a list would be very long and hard to keep current.
There was also, of course, some disagreement over which companies should be listed, and which tier they belong to. We'll never satisfy everybody (perhaps even ourselves) on that one.

Thanks for your support of the Linux Stocks Page, and keep an eye on it as it gets better.

Lego Mindstorms Robots are the topic of a new O'Reilly book which has recently appeared in their catalog. This isn't really a Linux book, but it's hard to imagine that those who like to play around inside Linux wouldn't be into this too...

and speaking of books,
MacMillan has put out a press release stating that their Sams and Que books on Linux will henceforth be reviewed by the folks at LinuxCare for accuracy.

There were a couple of LinuxWorld announcements that didn't make it into last week's LWN.
Craig Southeren was elected as the Linux development representative to the International Softswitch Consortium. The seat is sponsered by Vovida Networks.

Sybase Enterprise Application Server for Linux was selected as a winner of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Show Favorites Awards, sponsored by LinuxWorld magazine, in the Web Server category.

The SourceXchange has posted its first six Requests for Proposals. These RFP's all originate from within HP. All of the projects, of course, are to be released as open source.

Hardware:

Rave Computer Association, a long-time Sun reseller, has announced that it is now selling Sparc systems with Linux (Red Hat) preinstalled.

Lineo has announced the release of "Embrowser," their embedded web browser product. It runs on DR-DOS now, but will end up on their embedded version of OpenLinux ("Embeddix") shortly.

Software:

Mentor Graphics will be making its "Calibre" physical verification tool (for the semiconductor industry) available for Linux, according to this Semiconductor Business News article. "Calibre for Linux will be available in the fourth quarter. Pricing for Linux, Windows NT and Unix versions of Calibre starts at $50,000."

Motorola has announced its intention to buy Metrowerks, makers of CodeWarrior for Linux, among other things. (Thanks to Bill Shotts).

Press Releases:

  • Actiontec Electronics, Inc. announced the 56K PCI Master Modem. It supports all of the popular operating systems including Linux.

  • Active Tools has released Clustor 2.0. Clustor is software tool for high performance computing and is especially useful on Beowulf clusters.

  • Aspen Systems, Inc. has commenced shipping its Twin Peaks II line of 667MHz, 64-bit dual-Alpha 21264 processor workstation, server, and cluster solutions.

  • Frontier GlobalCenter announced that Red Hat, Inc. will be utilizing Frontier GlobalCenter's Web hosting and digital distribution architecture to host its site, www.redhat.com.

  • Future Power has introduced two Dual Millennium PCs -- the first systems ever equipped with two Intel Celeron processors. Some configurations can be shipped with Linux pre-installed.

  • GraphOn Corporation announced it has signed a strategic reseller agreement with Simple Future Corp. to provide Linux application delivery over networks.

  • Hewlett-Packard Company issued a clarifying statement on its IA-64 position. HP is commited to delivering Merced-based workstations and servers that support HP-UX(2), NT-64 and Linux.

  • IBM joined with Reedy Creek Technologies. The partnership unites Reedy Creek's web content management software and Real-time Page Management with the Linux friendly IBM Netfinity ServerProven program.

  • Instant Video Technologies announced that it has ported its Burstware enterprise-class server and conductor software to the Linux platform.

  • Intel Corporation announced the latest versions of its Pentium III Xeon processor family for server and workstation platforms. Naturally Linux is supported on this platform.

  • Kingston Technology announced the addition of a new 10/100 Fast Ethernet adapter with Wake on LAN and ACPI support. Linux drivers are included.

  • Macromedia, Inc. announced that versions of its Flash Player will be available free on 1 September for Linux and several other platforms.

  • MandrakeSoft, the makers of the Linux-Mandrake distribution, announced that they have received an equity investment from AXA Innovation.

  • Medullas Publishing Company announced its new upcoming site, Unix Applications (www.UnixApps.com). The new software download portal will merge Linux Applications and include applications from all Unices including FreeBSD and Herd operating systems. Moreover, Unix Applications will also feature applications from BeOS and other operating systems.

  • Neal Nelson & Associates helped Fore, Xylan and Cabletron to install a linux-based test bed.

  • NetGem has an Internet television with a combined TV/Internet board that uses the Linux operating system.

  • SAP announced that its R/3 ERP system has begun shipping for Linux. This is an important step in getting Linux into high-end business applications.

  • SAP will also be showing off the Linux version at the "SAP TechEd '99" conference, which starts on August 29.

  • Scriptics Corporation announced new versions of both the open source Tcl scripting language and the TclPro development tool suite. The TclPro tool suite is available for multiple platforms, including Linux.

  • Global Telemann Systems, Inc. announced the official release of WindowsNT and Linux driver for DVB-IP PC Card (SkyMedia-300, SkyMedia-200 and SkyMedia-200D). (Actually this came out in July, but we seem to have missed it then.)

  • TheLinuxStore has the Element-L Alpha Systems, with Red Hat Linux 6.0 installed.

  • Thinworks, a thin client server business, released a series of new products with the Linux operating system.

  • ZD Education launched welcome.zdu.com, a site dedicated to corporate training. Course topics range widely and include certification paths for Linux.

  • Ziatech Corporation introduces an e-newsletter to provide timely product, technology and event information for the CompactPCI Industry.

Section Editor: Jon Corbet.


August 26, 1999

 

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