ZDNet’s Charles Cooper opines: “If the Penguistas entertain serious hopes of carrying out their revolution, they’ll most certainly need the embrace of the most establishment computer maker of them all.”

A CanadaComputes.com column (say that three times fast) offers a conspiracy theory on the Microsoft code cracking case: “The larger ramifications to this story is, in particular, its
possible effect on the WINE project. WINE is an
alternative implementation of the Windows programming
interface which allows you to run some Windows software under Linux. I have
reviewed it before and, while it’s not perfect, it’s pretty darn good. Around the
time this hack was announced, it was also announced that WINE had got
Word 2000 and Excel 2000 to run under it. Probably coincidence, but people
who love conspiracies find the timing quite intriguing.”

Looking for a cheap Linux server? LWN.net has posted the latest press release from IBM, touting what that company calls “the industry’s first Linux-based integrated software solution for small businesses.” The server package includes IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application server, and Lotus Domino, sporting a suggested retail price of $499.

From a press release at LWN.net: Halcyon Software, Inc.
(http://www.halcyonsoft.com) announced today that it is making
its award-winning product, Instant ASP, available for
free to users of Intel-based Linux systems. iASP is a Java
implementation of the industry-standard Microsoft
Active Server Page (ASP) framework, and will allow businesses and
individuals an extremely

Interested in European patent law? Europa.eu.int has posted the study, “The Economic Impact of Patentability of Computer Programs,” which the European Commission will use later this year during a debate on whether to expand the European Union’s software patent laws.

Reuters reports that the chip maker and Linus employer has raised the projected price range of its planned
initial public offering to $16 to $18 per share from $11 to $13 a share. The new price could bring Transmeta $204 million in proceeds, up from the previous price of $144 million. Wired.com also previews the IPO.

The KDE Team at KDE.org needs your help with writing documentation for all of the great applications in KDE!
This is your opportunity to help KDE become useful to the users of KDE applications at any level.
You don’t need to be a professional writer, and you don’t even need to know everything about a program.

Compiling the Linux kernel could either be the coolest thing you’ve done
under Linux or the most frustrating. But it is also something any serious
Linux user cannot avoid. Newer kernels support the latest hardware. Bugs
will have been fixed and performance enhanced. From FreeOS.com.

From Linux.com: “During August 2000, I interviewed Cesar Miquel, Keith Clayton and Bruce Tenison by e-mail.
These interviews, obtained for the French magazine Linux Pratique, were supposed to be
background for an article on using the Rio500. For various reasons (including the installation of
dozens of Sun boxes in North England), publication didn’t occur. Cesar, Keith and Bruce are
programmers on the Rio500/Linux project.”

Oracle today rubbished rumours that its flamboyant founder Larry Ellison
was flying the coop.

The speculation that CEO Ellison and CFO Jeff Henley were leaving
apparently started hours before the software giant’s doors opened for
business at its California HQ this morning.

It helped drag Oracle’s share price down almost six dollars from its
opening price to just over $26. From The Register.