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Zope weekly news for January 15th

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Author: JT Smith

LWN.net posts the weekly summary of news and announcements for the Zope community: Announcements for New York’s Linux World Expo and EuroZopeCon in Amsterdam; Zop 2.3 beta 2 status report; All about “Zope Zen.”

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  • Open Source

Jython 2.0

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Author: JT Smith

A post at LWN.net announces the release of Jython 2.0, a Java implementation of the Python programming language. “It allows users to compile Python source code to
Java byte codes, and run the resulting bytecodes on any Java
Virtual Machine.”

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  • Open Source

Java fans fight back

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Author: JT Smith

Last week, Salon’s Simon Garfinkel wrote about Java. Specifically, he wrote some things about Java that were not very nice. In response, the Java advocacy crowd wrote in to say some things that were not very nice. He has now written a response to address those who took exception to his opinion.

Python-dev summary, January 1-15, 2001

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Author: JT Smith

LWN.net has the mid-month summary of news and announcements for the Python community: Keep your eyes peeled for the first alpha release of Python 2.1; Improve line-by-line file acccess speeds; Introducing pydoc, a tool for browsing Python documentation.

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  • Open Source

Open software for opportunity

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Author: JT Smith

Kelly McNeill writes “Linux’s strength is not that it is an alternative operating system, but rather that it is a new way of developing and earning revenue with software. The open source software (OSS) business model has been proven time and time again to be as good if not better than closed source alternatives. One example of OSS’s viability is found within the open source server software, Apache. Despite numerous commercial competitors, Apache manages to boast such impressive statistics as being run on 59 percent of all Web servers around the world.”

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  • Open Source

Gates is persistent, capable, Presidential material

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Author: JT Smith

Over at ZDNET, they’re talking about getting a Gates campaign started up. After all, he couldn’t be any worse than our current choices, they say.

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  • Management

Metadot publishes Gizmo tool directory

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Author: JT Smith

Metadot writes ”
Metadot published today a directory of all Gizmo Tools to provide Metadot Portal Server administrators

the ability to find and share Metadot Gizmo Tools. The new Gizmo API architecture allows Metadot

Portal Server developers to quickly design and implement new Gizmo Tools that integrate with other web

sites and back-end systems. The installation process is literally drag-and-drop as the Metadot Portal

Server automatically recognizes new Gizmo Tools and initializes them instantly.

View the Metadot Gizmo Tool Directory“

Turn off the Internet!

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Author: JT Smith

Californians are getting their just desserts for being so darn weird. This article at Salon describes some of the strangeness they are now having to endure as a result of not wanting any power plants to obscure their view of mountains and bikinis. Crazy treehuggers!

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  • Linux

IBM could turn Linux into just another *nix, warns Gartner

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Author: JT Smith

VNUnet talked to Gartner, who is pontificating about IBM’s involvement with everyone’s favorite OS. There are benefits to that involvement, they say, on the gaining new business side–but there are potential problems on the horizon for the ‘openness’ of Linux.

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  • Linux

Analysts make more predictions; this time about chips

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Author: JT Smith

ZDNET.co.uk says that our buddies the analysts (who are they, anyway?) are predicting that chipmakers will crack the 2GHz barrier in 2001. Zoom!

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  • Unix
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