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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.”

The Associated Press: “Walker Digital Corp., the company that developed the Priceline.com concept of buying airline tickets over the Internet, says it has laid off 100 of the 125 employees at its Connecticut headquarters.”

New service takes Open Source portal software to the corporate level with unparalleled deployment speed and quality

AUSTIN, Texas, November 22, 2000-MetaDot Corporation, an Open Source portal application provider offering free, self-service content and community management software for the Internet, announced today the creation of its Open Services Team and sponsorship by Schlumberger Limited, a global leader in technical services.

The open architecture design of MetaDot software enables multi-platform technology integration for a broad range of clients, with a focus on small- and medium-sized corporations. The MetaDot Portal Server provides an environment for layout, design and branding of a site, including personalization of information, publishing and subscription capabilities and data aggregation services in a variety of formats. The Open Services Team adds value to these existing products and services by providing swift and seamless implementations for customers worldwide.

“MetaDot’s Open Services Team will provide us with fast implementation and customization of their flexible and robust product and will enhance our capability to deploy IT solutions within Schlumberger,” commented Jean Chevallier, vice president of information technology of Schlumberger Limited.

According to Daniel Guermeur, president and CEO of MetaDot, “Speed of service is key to a corporation?s success. We take a customer?s request to full portal implementation in a matter of hours, not weeks, delivering a rapid return on investment for our growing client and user community.”

MetaDot Corporation is an Open Source portal application and service provider. The flagship product, MetaDot Portal Server, is a free Open Source, platform-independent software application that supports content management, virtual community and syndication, and processes millions of requests per day on all common operating systems. By encouraging customization, MetaDot provides mechanisms to integrate with most content providers. For rapid deployment, the Open Services Team offers a range of services and managed hosted portals. For more information visit www.metadot.com.

For Additional Information, contact:
MetaDot Corporation
Andy Meadows
andy@metadot.com
(512)-331-3383

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–MetaDot