ZDNet SmartPartner News’ interview with Doug Miller, a
group product manger for Windows server marketing, who’s main concern is keeping tabs on Windows 2000’s competitors: Unix (especially Solaris),
Linux, NetWare, and IBM’s midrange and mainframe
operating systems.

Business Wire: Tom Adelstein, founder of Bynari Inc.
will lead a discussion with Gary Lawrence Murphy, CEO of TCI, on Linux and the current events
concerning the company.

IT managers last week welcomed Sun’s decision to release the
source code to its StarOffice suite of desktop applications, but, warns ZDNet UK News,
many still see obstacles to its widespread adoption in the
enterprise.

The Linux-Mandrake development team has set a tentative date that
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 will be made available for download, sources within
Mandrakesoft said yesterday. “Right now, the tentative date the release will be ready to download is
October 28, with the product appearing in stores 15 days later,” reports Linux Today.

IT-Analysis article proclaims, IBM is now able to demonstrate a
commitment to Linux across the range, which no other
hardware vendor can currently match or even comes close to.

A Scottish company claims to be the first to have created a digital
map of the dark side of the Web that will track employees’ use of
the Internet, reports ZDNet UK News,

Instead, Amdahl plans to focus all its hardware investments on Fujitsu-branded Unix systems based on Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC microprocessors, reports ComputerWorld on InfoWorld News.

Linux Weekly News article states, “Not all of the test results are fair in my opinion: some are real
bugs in Debian, others are bugs in the testsuite or the result of
using an incomplete install. I’ve looked on the failures we got
and a few of the other tests and assembled this set of comments.”

An encouraging endorsement of the open source
approach from the British Medical Journal: “Free
software concepts make particular sense in
medicine… professional staff should not invest
time learning the user interface of proprietary
systems that may change, be withdrawn, or be
arbitrarily ‘upgraded’ for commercial reasons.”

Oracle is withdrawing all support for Novell’s Netware operating system “out of the blue”, forcing
users to migrate to other platforms. According to Enterprise Linux Today, migration options recommended include its own
Oracle 8i appliance, Linux, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX