Interwoven today announced that it has made TclPro, its development tool for the Tcl language, an open source product. The program is now available for download at Interwoven’s Web site.

Emacspeak 13.0 is now available. The program provides a “complete audio desktop” that enables visually impaired users to interact with their computer using a hands-free environment.

Anand Lal Shimpi takes a look at AMD’s plans for 2001 and beyond. “If you had talked about AMD as being a performance leader back at the release of their K6-III processor last year you would’ve been ridiculed. However, with the most recent statistics showing that AMD has almost 40% of the performance desktop market, 24% of the market belonging to Athlon CPUs alone, it is obvious that things have turned around for AMD.”

ZDNet UK reports that Intel is planning to make available experimental computer systems running its 64-bit Itanium chip in early 2001.

The Register reports: “In what must be one of the most surreal stories we’ve ever covered, Microsoft has awarded a Linux devotee with one of the company’s most coveted patents awards -even though the recipient has never worked for Microsoft.”

Jones Business Systems Incorporated (JBSi) and Caldera Systems announced an agreement where JBSi will distribute Caldera’s Linux product line nationwide to UNIX system resellers. Read the press release at Business Wire.

In a press release at Business Wire, Secret Labs AB announced the availability of PythonWorks Pro for Linux. “PythonWorks Pro, entirely developed in Python, contains an editor, project manager, a deployment tool, an integrated browser, debugger, and a proprietary interface design tool. PythonWorks Pro allows the developer to easily create Python applications using the built-in tools.”

There’s a list of differences between 2.4.0test11ac1 and 2.4.0test11, “pretty much all merged
from stuff off the maintainers and kernel list.”
The announcement’s at LinuxToday.

ZDNet has a column saying companies throwing PR behind the Gnome and KDE feud are doing more harm than good.

ZDNet UK has a story on the “digital divide” in the U.K. “At the Local Government Association’s Economic Regeneration
Conference in Liverpool, Department of Trade and Industry
secretary Stephen Byers admits that serious disparities’ exist in
e-commerce capability between businesses across the UK.
New figures from the DTI’s International Benchmarking Study 2000
reveal an increasing digital divide amongst British businesses trading
online.”