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Linux and Business

IDC: Linux is cheaper than Unix. Microsoft isn't the only one who can play this game: Red Hat has bought itself an IDC study showing that Linux has a "45-80% lower total cost of ownership" than Unix on RISC systems.

Korea migrates 120K civil servants to Linux desktop. HancomLinux reports that the Korean government is moving almost a quarter of its workers to Linux desktop systems.

By standardising on Linux and HancomOffice, the Korean government expects to make savings of 80 per cent, compared with buying Microsoft products.
-- The Register.

Lineo spins off hardware businesses. Lineo has announced the completion of the process of spinning off all those hardware businesses it acquired in the Bubble Days. Gone are Availix, uCdimm, and SnapGear, leaving the company focussed on embedded software. Lineo has also picked up a new $3 million investment from an unspecified source.

MandrakeSoft now trading in the U.S. OTC market. Here's a news flash from MandrakeSoft stating that the company's stock is now trading on the U.S. OTC market under the symbol MDKFF.

A presentation to the World Bank on free software. Here is the text of a presentation by Tony Stanco to the World Bank's annual "InfoDev" meeting. "It may surprise some of you that Open Source/Free Software is not just about developing great software. It is also an international social movement that touches on the fundamental human rights of freedom and democracy."

Red Hat filing 10-Q (Quarterly Report). Here is Red Hat's quarterly SEC filing for those interested in the details of how the company is doing. "During the three months ended November 30, 2001, the Company purchased 1,937,900 shares of its common stock at a total cost of $6.7 million."

Linux Stock Index for January 10 to January 16, 2002.
LSI at closing on January 10, 2002 ... 33.57
LSI at closing on January 16, 2002 ... 31.46

The high for the week was 33.57
The low for the week was 31.46

Press Releases:

Open Source Products

• Jabber, Inc. (DENVER): Jabber, Inc. Announces APIs and Source for Building Jabber Applications And Connecting Jabber Servers.

Proprietary Products for Linux

• Continuant Cluster Suite (MONROVIA, Calif.): GNP Computers Receives Internet Telephony's 2001 Product of the Year Award.

• IP Metrics Software, Inc. (DALLAS): IP Metrics Launches NIC Express for Linux 1.0.

Linux PC Hardware

• Emulex (COSTA MESA, Calif.): Emulex LP9002L Fibre Channel HBA Certified for HP MC/Serviceguard Software Solution in Linux Environments; Emulex LP9002L Used in HP's Application Protection Solution for Fibre Channel Connectivity.

• NEC (Japan): NEC released desktop Linux PC.

• Penguin Computing (SAN FRANCISCO): Penguin Computing Announces New Intel Servers and Workstation; Latest Pentium III Processors featured in new 1U Penguin Servers and Advanced Workstation.

Products With Linux Versions

• Cramblitt & Company (LEUVEN, Belgium): Eyetronics' New ShapeCam Makes 3D Object Capture A Snap.

• DMOD (BOSTON): DMOD Announces the DMOD WorkSpace for Secure Digital Media Collaboration and Distribution.

• ErgoTech Systems, Inc. (LOS ALAMOS, N.M.): ErgoTech Announces TransSECS -- SECS Without Programming; Graphical Host/Equipment SECS Interfaces With Direct Links to Factory Data.

• Magic Software Enterprises (Or Yehuda, Israel): Magic Software Enterprises Announces Web Services Release of Magic eDeveloper v9.2.

• NewMonics, Inc. (LISLE, Ill.): NewMonics' New PERC Release Offers Major Enhancements, Features; The Industry-leading Embedded JVM Becomes the First to Offer Enterprise-class Profiling.

Linux At Work

• Hurricane Electric (FREMONT, Calif.): Hurricane Electric Hosts EBLUG Installfest.

Books & Documentation

• No Starch Press, Inc. (San Francisco, CA): The Book of VMware, February 2002.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): "The Web Design CD Bookshelf" Released by O'Reilly.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): O'Reilly Releases "Cisco IOS in a Nutshell".

• O'Reilly & Associates (BEDFORD, Mass.): Preview O'Reilly's 'Java Web Services' at sonicsoftware.com.

Training and Certification

• Caldera International, Inc. (OREM, Utah): Top Caldera OpenLearning Provider Implements New Caldera Curriculum.

• Linux Professional Institute (New York): LINUX WORLD - NEW YORK - TEST SITE - LPI Exam 101.

Partnerships

• Teamware Group (UK): Press release: Silicon Systems to Sell Teamware Office for Linux in the UK.

Personnel & New Offices

• ImageStream (Plymouth, Indiana): (ANNC) New Area Code, New Web Site Reminder.

• MontaVista Software Inc. (LONDON): MontaVista Expands Management Team.

• OnCore Systems Corp. (Half Moon Bay, California): OnCore Systems Appoints Chuck Colford to General Manager Post.

• Red Hat, Inc. (RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.): Red Hat Names Mary Sutton Vice President of Human Capital.

Other

• LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (FRAMINGHAM, Mass.): Compaq Signs On as Cornerstone Sponsor of Linuxworld Conference & Expo; Two-year Agreement Demonstrates Compaq's Ongoing Commitment to Linux and Open Source.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.

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