From an InforWorld story about Microsoft launching its line of Enterprise Servers and a new .NET server: “Microsoft is relying on a number of third parties to better compete with Unix vendors.”

From PR Newswire: Lineo, a provider of
embedded systems, real-time and high availability Linux-based solutions, today announced premier channel
partnership agreements with Japan-based Dia Semicon Systems and Kanematsu Semiconductor
Corporation. The companies are both established semiconductor distributors and device-related systems
integrators.

InfoWorld reports on Hewlett-Packard’s new HP NetServer 32-way server, which will ship with the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter operating system. It will run HP-UX, Linux, and Windows operating systems, part of “HP’s commitment to a three operating system strategy.”

Sandhilltoad (obviously a play on Sandhill Road), a site dedicated to publishing rich stories from venture funded companies gone awry, is calling out to the Linux community to come forward with their stories of woe. The site is still in content collection mode, and expects to launch in the fourth quarter of this year. The site is currently accepting short story submissions via email or its recently launched message board. If you have a story that is begging to be shared, send it in ! — Submitted by Sandhilltoad Editor

Red Hat, a leader in developing, deploying and managing open source
Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced at Embedded Systems Conference West
2000 that Samsung has awarded it a million dollar contract to port the Red Hat GNUpro
embedded development tools to the Samsung CalmRISC line of low-power processors. The press release is from Business Wire.

Reuters reports that the microprocessor maker Transmeta believes its technology is at least five years ahead of competitors Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

From a story at PC World: “Napster and MP3.com have
grabbed much of the spotlight in the online music
world, but the major music labels are ready to do
battle. In fact, the music powers that rule the offline
world are confident that their dominance will soon
extend to the Web.”

Lineo, a provider of
embedded systems, real-time and high availability Linux-based solutions, today announced the shipment of the
Embedix RealTime 3.0 installation CD, a real-time development environment of Linux. Embedix RealTime is used for
mission-critical applications requiring guaranteed response time in the telecom, military simulation and industrial
control markets. The press release is from PR Newswire.

From a story at InfoWorld: “Internet-powered appliances and applications will replace the dominance of Microsoft Windows PC operating systems in the next five years, Red Hat CEO Robert Young predicted.”

Reuters (via PC World) has a short followup story about Fujitsu planning to use Transmeta chips in its laptops.