At BSD Today: “The ISDN4BSD ISDN subsystem, which is also integrated into FreeBSD, has been brought into shape for
NetBSD and imported into NetBSD-current.”

ZDNet reports: “Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday will release the latest
draft specification of the XML file format that will be
included in the next version of its StarOffice software
suite due out later this year.”

garym writes “In the Globe and Mail’s coverage of the Corel Saga Simon Tuck speculates on rumours the upcoming Jan 23rd strategy announcements may include selling off the Corel Linux product lines; it may even be a done deal that can’t become public until the sun leaves Capricorn.”

LinuxNews.pl writes “We found the alternative for Zend cache system –
afterBURNER*Cache
. Right now it’s beta, but looks solid. You can download a copy for linux, solaris or windows. I’m wondering if there are any plans to
do the compiler that would be alternative for Zend Encoder…
The whole thing is on LinuxNews.pl“

ZDNET.co.uk reports that the UK technology news site silicon.com has been taken offline, by burglars.

Vital computing equipment was stolen by thieves during a break-in at the
dot-com’s Chelsea headquarters Saturday lunchtime. As a result, silicon.com,
silicon.fr and atscojobs.com have all been forced offline.

From EarthWeb: “As a Linux consultant, I am often asked questions about various Linux compatibility issues. A typical question might be, “Can I use
Microsoft Word with Linux?” We Linux people can always respond, “No, but you can run ‘X’ for compatibility,” where “X” is
StarOffice, Corel WordPerfect, or your favorite Unix word processor.”

From OSOpinion: “Gradually the drug dealer starts to charge per month or every time you need a fix. Microsoft (in time) may someday charge you for doing
such trivial things as printing a copy of your data.”

From a digital microscope for children introduced last year to an unsuccessful line of videoconferencing products offered in the
mid-1990s, Intel has experimented with a variety of additions to its main business. From CNET.

MSNBC tells us that the Phone Book Service has an unchecked buffer that
may allow a hacker to run some malicious code on a remote server.

Oracle is adding support for the new Linux 2.4 open source
operating system kernel to its Oracle 9i application server and
Oracle 8i database, the company said in a statement Tuesday. From a report at Infoworld.