Business Wire has the press release: Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open
source Internet infrastructure, today announced at the LISA System Administrators show an expanding range of e-commerce and services offerings
for Apache and the Red Hat Stronghold Secure Web Server, including new support options and training through Red Hat Global Learning Services.

From BusinessWire: Turbolinux, Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of UNICON 3.0 to the
Open Source community.
A software package that adds improved double-byte language support for the Linux console, UNICON is a kernel enhancement that extends the
reach of superior Turbolinux support to simplified and traditional Chinese, as well as other Asian languages.

Canoe.ca has a column about “the staggering lack of investor confidence” in Linux. “Why at the value of [Red Hat] stock plummeted so sharply, despite the fact that company revenues are projected to increase by more than 100 percent by the end of this fiscal year? Because the company, and the Linux sector in general, lacks a strong, targeted sales channel.”

NeoPets.com, an online virtual pet community, is currently attempting to trademark the term NeoMail, with a vague, sweeping description of goods/services covered, consisting solely of “Electronic-mail (E-Mail) Service.” They have been notified of the fact that the open-source webmail client NeoMail has been using the name, providing a function falling under the same categorization, since February 15th, 2000, and their application claims they didn’t first use the term until April of the same year. Despite the notification, they are pressing on towards registering the trademark, forcing the NeoMail author further into costly legal procedures if the trademark is to be opposed, and common law rights are to be defended. The author is requesting feedback and assistance from the open source community. Full details and a transcript of correspondence thus far can be found neomail.sourceforge.net.
–Ernie Miller

From BusinessWire: NetNation Communications, Inc., (Nasdaq: NNCI), a global, top-ranked web site hosting company, domain name registrar and application
service provider, and Stormix Technologies Inc., the Linux for Networks company, are pleased to announce that Tribal DDB Canada, a
member of DDB Worldwide, has chosen the utilize the expertise of both companies for its growing Intranet for internal and client communications.

IBm is readying its first Itanium-based workstation and has 200-plus applications cerified to run on the system. The system will hold up to two processors and will be available for Windows 2000 and Whislter, but IBM is also planning to offer the system with versions of LInux from Red Hat, Caldera, TurboLinux and SuSE. The story is at InfoWorld.

osdem.org has an announcement of the Open Source and Free Software Developers Meeting in This is the home page of the Open Source and Free Software Developer’s European Meeting (OSDEM in short :-), an event in Brussels Feb. 3 and 4. The meeting “is meant to be an event during which open source developers can meet, exchange idea, present their upcoming
software. If you are a developer, you should be interested as it will make you meet fellow programmers in real life.”

PR Newswire has the release: Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), a
“Linux for Business” leader, today reported revenue of $1.2 million for the
three months ended October 31, 2000, a 34% increase over revenue of
$874,000 for the comparable three months of the previous fiscal year. For the
year ended October 31, 2000, revenue was $4.3 million compared to $3.1 million
for the previous year, an increase of 40%.

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5 of the
NetBSD operating system is now available, supporting 20 different hardware platforms from a single source tree. NetBSD 1.5 continues our long tradition with major improvements in
file system and memory management performance, major security
enhancements (including integration of IPsec, SSH and Kerberos 5), and
support for many new platforms and peripherals. See the release announcement for more information. –Charles M. Hannum

From BusinessWire: Linuxcare, Inc., a leader in providing comprehensive professional services and solutions for Linux and open-source technologies, today unveiled 10
new customer names and declared that its services model has delivered substantial business value to its customers with the end-goal of accelerating
Linux adoption. Linuxcare maximizes the benefits of Linux for its customers, including customizing for higher reliability, greater performance and
features, as well as faster time to market.
Linuxcare adds the following 10 companies to its customer base: Adaptec, Digital Island, Ecrix Corporation, Ivenue.com, Maxtor, SGI, Espial,
3ware, VERITAS Software and WSE/Honeywell.