See also: last week's Commerce page.

Linux and Business

Proposal: free software in the Spanish administration. Hispalinux, the Spanish Internauts Association, and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya have given a proposed law to governmental representatives which would promote the use of free software in the Spanish administration. A partial English translation of the proposal is available via Babelfish.

Red Hat Opens Major Engineering and R&D Facility in Massachusetts. In an unusual bit of expansion in the current business environment, Red Hat has issued a press release stating that it has opened a new research and development facility in Massachusetts, and 50 new jobs have been created. "The facility will work on developing high-performance computing products, enhanced enterprise capabilities for Red Hat's line of Advanced Server products, 64-bit technologies and other projects as part of Red Hat's expanding efforts in open source enterprise computing."

Caldera announces results, layoffs. Caldera International has put out a press release lowering its projected second quarter revenue to a little over $15 million (the estimate had been $16-18 million). The problem is the economy, of course. Also in the PR is the announcement that the company will lay off 15% of its staff - about 73 people. Finally, CTO Drew Spencer has left the company.

IBM Delivers Open Platform for Business Partners. IBM has announced a new business platform based on Linux, DB2, WebSphere, and its xSeries servers.

Opera 6.0 released. Opera Software has announced the release of version 6.0 of the Opera web browser for Linux. See the release notes for a list of new features.

Linux Stock Index for May 10 to May 14, 2002.
LSI at closing on May 10, 2002 ... 24.25
LSI at closing on May 14, 2002 ... 25.76

The high for the week was 25.76
The low for the week was 24.25

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