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.

Polish National Radio and TV Council — an institution that takes care among others about the radio and tv licenses —
wants to be some kind of an guardian of The Net. Seems that our gov wants to establish some kind of the
Echelon or Carnivore in our part of Europe, reports LinuxNews.pl. The blurb is in English.
–LinuxNews Team

SlashTCO reports: “Themestream needed to ensure that its Web infrastructure was
compatible with its primary Oracle database and continuously performed at optimal levels. ‘In
launching the Themestream site, we could not afford to sacrifice customer satisfaction
levels by experiencing less than 100 percent system uptime.’ said Rafhael Cedeno, chief
technology officer at Themestream, ‘To maintain stickiness, it was essential that we
maintained optimal performance.’ After evaluating alternatives such as Solaris and
Windows, Themestream decided on a complete Linux solution due to its reliability, low-cost
and flexibility.”

LinuxPlanet’s Dennis E. Powell: “In keeping with the spirit of raging selfishness beneath what is all too often a veneer of hypocrisy as
authentic as woodgrain shelf paper, I herewith proffer my Christmas wish list. It is short, but this is
counterbalanced by the fact that most of what it contains doesn’t exist. But it should, so my gift to
the world at large is identification of these needs so that someone can fill them.”

“An Australian company, that claims to have developed the ultimate
security-proof system, will soon issue a multi-million dollar dare to
the hacking underworld.” From ZDCOUK.