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Linux at Windows World!
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:34 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
 "Linux will make an appearance at Windows World this year! Following LAID last November, Mark Egan of Scope was very impressed by what we had achieved at the conference. A few months later he mailed me to ask if we would be interested in hosting a stand at e-XPO (or Windows World as it was formally known as). Reaction to the offer was mixed from the Irish Linux Community. Some were against the idea, but many others were and still are enthusiastic about it. It was decided in the end to go ahead with the stand and soon a group of volunteers gathered to man the stand."
"The stand will be manned throughout the length of the exhibition by at least 2 people. We'll have 2 machines, kindly lent to us by PC Pro. Both will demo various aspects of Linux, from desktop usage to examples of server software. You'll have no trouble catching any of us outside of the booth either, at least some of us will be wearing Linux tshirts, printed with help from Voyager Internet in Waterford."
Red Hat Named One of the Top 50 Public Companies in Red Herring 100
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:31 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"Red Hat, Inc., the leading provider of open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, today announced its recognition as one of the Top 50 Public Companies in the Red Herring 100, an annual profile of leading public and private companies. Red Hat's position as the first Linux distributor and leader in Linux market share has earned it the recognition as a company "whose products, services and business models define the future of business."
"Judges in the 4th Annual Red Herring 100 used six criteria in determining the top companies for recognition: strategy, execution, products and services, branding, finances and competition. Red Herring cited the importance of a company's ability to overturn existing markets or create entirely new markets as a major factor in its final determination of the Red Herring 100. In its branding section, the Red Herring 100 labels Red Hat as having "the biggest brand-name among Linux operating system distributors," and states in its market section that "Red Hat was the first Linux distributor and remains the leader, with the most market share." To view the full Red Herring 100 profile of Red Hat, please visit the following Web site: http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue79/herring100/red.html."
"Once again, a leading publication in the field of business technology has validated Red Hat's business model and position as the leader in open source solutions," said Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat. "Recognition by Red Herring as a top public company indicates that business leaders acknowledge Red Hat's ability to define new business paradigms and perform in today's demanding marketplace."
Linuxcare: The hits keep on coming
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:30 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"Linuxcare, the San Francisco-based Linux services provider and currently the open-source community's No. 1 rated soap opera, took a turn for the melodramatic this week."
"On Wednesday, WideOpen news reported that the company had begun laying off employees. A day later, CNET reporter Steve Shankland cited an unnamed source putting the total number of expected layoffs at 70 employees, roughly 25 percent of the current Linuxcare workforce. Both articles followed initial reports that Linuxcare executives had sent a letter to the Securities Exchange Commission asking to cancel its \$67 million IPO filing."
"Such a purge was hardly unexpected, especially given last month's pulled IPO following the surprise dismissal of CEO Fernand Sarrat and resignation of chief information officer Doug Naussaur. With prospects of outside investment dwindling, executives need to minimize overhead or risk running out of cash."
Red Hat rethinks news site, portal plans
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:29 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"Red Hat quietly has scaled back its plans to create a Linux and open-source news site, a setback for the company's strategy to diversify its revenue streams and create a dominant Linux Web site."
"Red Hat launched the site last year as part of its plans to bring as many visitors as possible to the company's Web site. The site, called Wide Open News, was envisioned as more than a public service for open-source software. Red Hat planned to create a destination for all things Linux and to earn revenue through ad sales, software sales and leads on service contracts."
"On Friday, though, the company laid off three of the four Wide Open employees and transferred the fourth to another position, said Walter McCormack, general manager of Red Hat's overall Web site."
"The Wide Open site will remain on the Web, but in a less ambitious form. The site will be populated with stories from a handful of syndicated news partners, McCormack said. Those partners already provide about 80 percent of the stories posted to the site. Salon.com, one of the partners, saw its stock jump as much as 90 percent when it became a content partner."
VA Linux Prof. Services Expands Internet Infrastructure Services and Software Development Teams
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:28 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX) today announced that it has significantly expanded the VA Linux Professional Services Division, strengthening its expertise in Internet infrastructure services and Open Source software development. VA Linux Professional Services has also continued to add key talent to its team of engineers, business analysts and Open Source strategists, adding over 40 engineers and managers over the past three months."
"VA Linux Professional Services' newest program is the VA Linux ISP JumpStart Program, which assists companies in the planning, design and implementation of their Internet infrastructure solutions. In addition, VA Linux Professional Services has strengthened its expertise in e-commerce, Web server farms, Internet multimedia and streaming, Samba, Linux driver development, porting and Open Source application development."
"VA Linux Professional Services continues to expand its Open Source software engineering team. Most recently, VA Linux Professional Services has gained Precision Insight's engineering and project management team, which brings significant expertise in the Linux kernel and multimedia infrastructure development. The Precision Insight team will help VA Linux Systems define its future strategy in Open Source multimedia and streaming technologies for Internet applications."
Linux Standard for Software Development Moves Closer to Reality
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:27 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"Linux Standard Base and Linux Internationalization Initiative Incorporate, Gain Support from All Segments of Industry."
"The Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Linux Internationalization Initiative (LI18NUX) announced today that they have incorporated under the name Free Standards Group. The newly formed Free Standards Group was organized to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of interoperability standards for open source development."
"The Free Standards Group has received endorsements from a growing number of industry corporations as well as from public interest groups such as the Debian Project. These milestones move the group significantly closer to its goal of creating a single Linux standard."
"The Free Standards Group will draw upon its LSB and LI18NUX roots to ensure that the Linux operating system does not fall victim to fragmentation, breaking into multiple versions, each of which is supported by only selected applications. To prevent that, the Free Standards Group's members are promoting a specification, which, when implemented, will mean that any LSB-compliant application will run successfully on any LSB-compliant Linux distributions. While sensitive to the idea that Linux development should not be stifled, the group is working to define a common subset of Linux that will work for everyone, regardless of distribution."
Why more people don't use Linux
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:26 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"Generally speaking, I would have to say I agree wholeheartedly with the Open Source doctrine and I genuinely wish more companies would adopt it. The one itty bitty tiny little thing that keeps open source from becoming the dominant standard on this planet is this: boredom."
"Now I'm sure a lot of you Linux zealots are scratching your head and trying to figure out where my e-mail address is so you can flame me, but before you do, let me explain. My wife had heard me talking about Linux and I have been reading LinuxToday.com faithfully for over a year, so she thought it would be a good idea to buy me a copy for Christmas. I had a few distros on CD-ROM and I had played around with Linux a little, but I never had a full-fledged copy of my own. It just so happens that the copy my wife bought me came with a stripped down Partition Magic. So first thing on Christmas morning I went off to repartition my HD and install my new OS...."
"I am a basic user when it comes to my home machine. I don't play games a whole lot (less than an hour a month or so), but I do spend a lot of time surfing the net and doing our church's bulletin. Now I know that Netscape doesn't support Frames, Active X controls and 99% of the plug-ins available out there, so that was no surprise. What did surprise me is when I downloaded a word processor to help me with the aforementioned chore. I was shocked and amazed (exaggeration used for emphasis)! Half of the menu options came up with a nice little request asking me to implement the feature if I really wanted it."
Would Baby Bill Port To Linux?
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:25 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"If the Department of Justice succeeds in breaking up Microsoft, would an aggressive new desktop applications company port its Office applications to Linux?"
"Microsoft did not speculate. And opinion in the Linux community was divided, with most observers saying they weren't going to hold their breath. Nevertheless, there was agreement that Linux would enjoy more widespread use on desktops if users could make a painless migration from Windows to Linux, taking their Office applications with them."
"Many Linux supporters said they doubt whether an applications spin-off from Microsoft, given its Windows-oriented corporate culture, would be willing to port Office to a rival operating system. But Young said it would face business pressures to do so, including scrutiny by stockholders asking if management was acting in their best interests."
US urges stiffer penalties for Net crimes
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:24 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"We never cease to marvel at the smooth, silent process by which corrupt alliances among well-heeled industry lobbyists, putatively 'independent' government commissions and Congress can pervert justice."
"Most recently, the US Sentencing Commission (USSC) sent a new and grossly Draconian packet of industry-inspired guidelines to Congress, requiring substantially more severe punishments for malefactors convicted of using the Internet to commit crimes."
"The USSC is acting under orders from Congress to recommend federal sentencing guidelines compatible with recent legislation addressing on-line crime. The Commission has generated numerous recommendations and guidances related to Net crime in the past two years, though interestingly, the Commissioners seem to have consulted exclusively with 'industry representatives' possessing clear vested interests in devising these schemes."
A Clarification... to What the World is Coming To
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Posted by Jared Jarrett @ 5:23 AM EDT (5.9.2000)
"I know what you're all thinking. "Oh, look, it's that Basil freak again. Why doesn't he just shut up?" Well, "What the World is Coming To" was my first article, and many of you agreed with it. Thank you to those who did. Not to say that those who don't agree with me aren't to be thanked; they helped me realize where I didn't explain what I was trying to say completely. So here's my rebuttal-slash-clarification to Wednesday's article. It might change a few minds, and at the very least, you'll have a better idea of what you're disagreeing with."
"...More people is always good. At the very worst reason it gets companies to put money into Linux. What IS a bad thing is people that come in for the wrong reasons. Newbies in general are great for Linux, and I often visit Linux news groups to give them help. Yes, I too was a newbie, I haven't forgotten, and to tell you the truth, I haven't completely outgrown it yet. Contrary to what many people say, however, there are times when the free, open OS is a bad idea. My father has Windows, and when I'm at his house I use IE5 and Word2000 all the time, and I can't believe anyone could honestly say Linux is better for simple tasks like e-mail and word processing. It just isn't. And neither of those programs crashes anymore than Linux's counterparts. To my dad, therefore, Linux would not be a good choice. It's just another OS, with more rules and quirks he'd have to learn, only to come out with about the same performance."
"Once again, no. I'm not a guru. I don't code, I never said I did (and just for Mr. Anonymous over there, I was far from being born when 'pinkos' were around). What I do is I use my computer at home. I use it out of pure curiosity, and we all know Linux is just great for that. Like I said, I don't code, yet. What I do to contribute is test beta programs and write bug reports, advocate Linux, etc. So, of course I don't expect gurus out of every single Linux user. What I would like to see is some sort of contribution. After all, for all of you who said I don't understand the open source concept, user contribution is, in essence, your payment for open software. It's open for the sole reason that you can contribute. So yes, I expect people to contribute to Linux."
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