ZDNet has a story following up earlier reports about Caldera’s quarterly financial report. The $6.9 million quarterly loss was smaller than expected. More from Reuters.

Reuters reports that Swedish telecom operator and Internet provider
Telia is planning to use the free Linux computer operating system for its
entire Internet services business TeliaNet.

“TeliaNet hopes switching to a Linux-based computer will enable it to
cut prices and increase reliability and availabilty of its Web service.”

Following exploding retail sales for its
award-winning open source Linux-Mandrake distribution product,
MandrakeSoft announces the opening of two new international offices and
appoints top executives to drive its global expansion. The press release is at LinuxPR.

The Associated Press follows up on earlier reports that Opera would release a free browser: “The company behind the world’s No. 3 Web browser offered its first free version Wednesday in a bid to close the gap with Microsoft’s market-leading Internet Explorer and AOL/Netscape.” More from The Register.

The Register talks to Intel boss Craig Barrett. Barrett has this to say about competitor Transmeta: “If you go back to the mobile processor family where we compete
against people like Transmeta, we introduced the Pentium III processor family with
some speed step technology. You can scale down the performance and scale down
the power consumption. We think we outperformed Transmeta, both in performance
and in power consumption in the mobile end.”

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.