“Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle Corp.’s Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server.” Review at ZDNet.

Anandtech takes a look at the latest low-cost Celeron chips from Intel. Now shipping with a 100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), chip performance is expected to increase dramatically.

Ananova reports: “Two men in Los Angeles have been jailed for two years after
they sent 50 million e-mails as part of a scam which almost
brought the largest internet providers to a standstill.”

From CNN: “While some contend that Linux has made
headlines but little else, evidence suggests
that Linux is finding a niche — and quite
possibly a large one. A poll of 2,092 IT professionals by Survey.com
reveals that more than 68 percent of companies have or intend to
deploy at least one Linux system.” (Note: the article mentions VA Linux, the company that owns NewsForge).

In a press release at Business Wire, eSniff, Inc. announced the availability of its Linux-based 1100 appliance, “a unique plug-and-play hardware device designed to end the problem of
computer network abuse.”

From a press release at PR Newswire: “OTG Software (Nasdaq: OTGS), a
software developer of online storage, data access and email management
solutions, today announced DiskXtender(TM) for Linux, new storage software
that supports the Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Linux platform.”

2.4 isn’t here yet, but the Linux community is already putting its wish lists together for version 2.5 of the Linux kernel, says ZDNet.

From PR Web: “We are very proud to present Ithaki, the most powerful and innovative
metasearch engine of the internet. www.ithaki.net

Ithaki is the only metasearch engine available in 10 languages (English, French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, NOrwegian, Russian and German)
and armed with more than 30 unique categories to search including the web,
news, images, newsgroups, sotfware, spiders, books and much more.

Ithaki is also the first Linux metacrawler, users and fans of Linux can get the most
of their systems metasearching the linux web, usenet, security and more.

From ZDNet UK: “Advanced Micro Devices plans to take on Intel in the server
market, enlisting one of its own competitors to help out

Under a complex deal yet to be announced, sources say AMD is
sending to software developers computers that run on competitor
Transmeta’s Crusoe processor and contain a special version of
Transmeta’s ‘code-morphing’ software.”

SecurityFocus.com reports on the appointment of John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general. “As a senator, Ashcroft was one of a handful of lawmakers who fought to tear down encryption export regulations … Ashcroft’s views put him in direct opposition to FBI director Louis Freeh.”