From a press release at PR Newswire: “Oracle(R) Technology Network (OTN) members have demonstrated that they just can’t get enough of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) software on Linux. Over the past three months, more than 400,000 developers have downloaded one of many Oracle enterprise software products for Linux available today on OTN.”

“Linux, the free computer operating system, is expected to win another high profile victory on Tuesday when Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS) will announce it is going to install the world’s largest Linux supercomputer. Shell’s Exploration & Production unit will use the supercomputer, consisting of 1,024 IBM X-Series servers, to run seismic and other geophysical applications in its search for more oil and gas.” From a Reuters report on Yahoo.

“Tower Technology Corporation, the industry leader in Java Performance Management Solutions, announces release 3.6 of its TowerJ(TM) Java Virtual Machine (JVM) at the eBusiness Conference and Expo today. Companies can expect an enhanced customer experience with the new release, as the upgrade features improved performance, scalability, and support for Java 1.3. In addition, advanced ease-of-use supports simplified migration from existing JVMs to TowerJ 3.6, so that organizations requiring the benefits of TowerJ 3.6 can gain access quickly and easily.” Press release at Business Wire.

More from Newsforge reader Chandrashekhar Bhosle: “Motor is a new IDE for Linux. It also features a set of tools that will help you create
rpm or tar ball packages of your code. A great utility for programmers — read on
at freeos.com to learn more about this software, from the author himself!”

Newsforge reader Chandrashekhar Bhosle submitted this story: “The Proc psuedo file system is a real time, memory resident file system that tracks the
processes running on your machine and the state of your system. Read more at freeos.com to learn
how to get the most out of the /proc file system.”

Linux.com reports that there’s a movement to
make an open source BIOS. “Let’s discuss BIOS in the context of GNU/Linux and open
source. This article focuses on BIOS in general, and digs a bit deeper into the software
that makes your motherboard tick.”

“Basically, Motif is based on the X Window libraries, but Motif adds its own toolkit (“widgets”), a style
guide, and a window manager, mwm. All three combine to create a look and feel, and Motif ended up
being the basis for the Common Desktop Environment.” From LinuxPlanet.

IBM is expanding its Java “development days” program in Australia because
of high demand. Australian IT reports.

The Free Software Foundation’s George Greve writes: “Welcome to the 22nd issue of Georg’s Brave GNU World. The 2 year anniversary is slowly coming up and as a kind of appetizer I
got two special features that kind of explain what I have been working on the last year. But first let me come to the technical part.”

Enterprise Linux Today has posted this original report by John Wolley: “Porting DB2 to Linux and porting Linux to its mainframe took care of much of the technical end of IBM’s Linux strategy.
The latest DB2 Linux/mainframe announcements, combined with the Small Business Suite thrust, create a coherent
marketing strategy designed to get businesses to start using Linux — on the low end, the high end, and in the middle.”