ZDNet reports: “Stocks are back on the rise after bottoming out at
New Year’s. The 2.4 kernel stream has been
released, which means that we should start
seeing production-quality versions seeping into
the enterprise before summertime. Necessary
consolidations are taking place, such as the
planned merger of Linuxcare and Turbolinux. Even
Microsoft, most open sourcers’ primary nemesis,
is unwittingly making life easier for Linux
advocates.”

“I have developed shopping carts in the past, but they have always been for a specific product line, and therefore not very flexible. I prefer
to use PHP and PostgreSQL. The Zelerate AllCommerce software can create a flexible, database-independent solution, using only Perl.
AllCommerce provides more than just a shopping cart; it offers inventory control, order tracking, site management, and complete
Web-based management support for your e-commerce site.” Story at LinuxWorld.

Info World reports: “Linux system management software received a boost on Tuesday,
with Caldera Systems debuting what company officials believe is the first
such package for that market capable of managing thousands of
distributed systems.”

Info World reports: “Sun Microsystems on Tuesday will throw a coming-out party for
J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) in San Francisco to detail the
latest dot release of the Java-based programming environment for
enterprise applications.”

ZDNet reports: “Palm CEO Carl Yankowski wrote in a companywide
e-mail Monday that Bill Maggs, the chief technology
officer, will be leaving the company.

Maggs is resigning to “pursue outside opportunities
related to the next phase of the Internet,” according to the
e-mail obtained from a source close to the company.”

From a message posted to LWN.net: “If I were you, I’d worry more about the blk-patches from Jens, but
they’ve been around for a long time, and Alan also put them in his tree.
Which makes them as safe as any patch we’ve seen. So I took the
approach that “we’ll obviously have to put this _somewhere_ in 2.4.x”.
But that is, at least to me, a potentially bigger worry than reiserfs.”

From Linux PR: “Sphera Corporation, the only provider of a software platform
for automating global hosting operations, and Dialtone Internet, a leading provider of Linux
dedicated hosting and colocation solutions, today announced AutoHost, a dedicated Linux
server line designed for premium Web hosting. Available from Dialtone Internet, AutoHost is
enabled by Sphera’s HostingDirector 3.0, a software platform that simplifies and automates Web
hosting business operations for mission-critical environments.”

In a press release from Linux PR, “Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
today released StethoScope® for Linux®, the visualization tool for
monitoring and analyzing embedded and real-time applications. As the
leading real-time monitoring tool in the embedded industry, StethoScope
empowers developers to understand and debug complex real-time
code. Now embedded software developers who want to use the Linux
operating system have an off-the-shelf analysis tool to help them
improve their software quality and reduce development time.”

From Linux PR: “K Computing and the RTC Group have again teamed up to provide
hands-on Embedded Linux training. The training will be held at the
Silicon Valley Conference Center, in San Jose, California from January
29 through February 1st (4 days).”

Conectiva today announced that it has received investments ABN AMRO Bank, Intel Capital and LatinTech Capital. The company plans to use the cash to expand its Linux operations in South America.