Kelly McNeill tells us about another column at OS Opinion: “As long as all the Linux vendors keep their integrity, play by the rules of the GPL — and stay away from tactics … described in the following editorial piece they will never make more money than Microsoft. Oh wait, we weren’t talking about money. We were talking about Linux taking over the desktop. OK, until the Linux vendors decide that making money is more important than providing a quality product at the lowest price possible, they won’t have the advertising budget for creating a huge artificial demand.”

ZDNet reports on a University of Delware computer based on 1GHZ AMD Athlon processors, and Linux, of course. Here’s another version of the story from Maximum Linux.

Wired.com previews the opening of the Open Source Development Lab Wednesday. The lab is the industry’s first independent, nonprofit lab for developers “adding enterprise capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software.”

A Businesswire press release at BigCharts.com says that there will be separate programs for career trackers and career changers. The company will also offer a first-time-pass guarantee on all certification tests.

An anonymous reader alerts us to the article, TOTW: Associative arrays in AWK. “A predecessor of perl, awk’s man page calls it a “pattern scanning and processing language”. It can be used for a number of perl-like tasks and is what I usually turn to for parsing tasks that aren’t too complex and where speed isn’t an issue.”

Read more at: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/totw.html.

Kelly McNeill writes: “The Windows story is important for Linux because if the open source software can create the environment that gave Windows its success as an OS, Linux will be the next desktop standard.” Check out the rest of the column at OS Opinion

From LinuxPR: Zend Technologies today unveiled its
plans to advance the expansion of PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) as an
enterprise-scale scripting language by bringing commercial-grade products and
capabilities to the PHP platform. Zend’s enterprise-quality products and services
promise to extend the reach and technical sophistication of PHP, making it
increasingly attractive to large enterprises, eBusinesses and independent
software vendors (ISVs) seeking a Web application infrastructure for the rapid
development of dynamic Web solutions. Also, read the story at ZDNet.

PC World follows up on earlier stories: “New technology from IBM could restrict what you do with your future digital music.

The company waded into the digital content protection fray Monday, announcing a new
version of its Electronic Media Management System that could restrict peer-to-peer
file-sharing schemes such as Napster.”

LinuxPlanet has a story about Open Source publishing and whether writers should complain about people modifying their work. “Last year I went to a Birds of a Feather session for technical writers at the New York LinuxWorld
Expo. To my amazement, I was made to listen to a bunch of people at this session bemoan the fact
that there wasn’t more open source publishing in the world. I had seen open source publishing in action before, of course, on various projects such as the Linux
Documentation Project, and other projects within the Sourceforge Web repository. But these people
were talking about something new — applying open source policies to publications already
copyrighted …
And I then found myself in a sudden wash of guilt. Was I being a hypocrite for espousing the merits
of open source on one hand, and yet being completely self-righteous about keeping my own works
protected?”

Deep into a TechWeb story about a new Dell storage market is a quote from a solutions provider sales manager. “Dell’s entry into this market will affect solution providers,
but it won’t be catastrophic, says Michael Fanelli, western
regional manager at Sales Strategies, Metuchen, N.J.

‘Our best asset is our understanding of both NT and Unix
environments, and integrating in them,’ Fanelli says. ‘NT
is not the area we go after. But we are in [NT] because
everybody is running NT, even the hardcore Linux people,
whether they admit it or not. We tell customers that if they
want to [use Dell for storage], go ahead. But we offer the
other things they need, like switches, hubs, software, and
so on.’ ”