Are you on the verge on selecting Linux for your Internet site computing
environment?
You’re not alone.
Alex Samonte, Chief Engineer for SiteSmith, a provider of Internet
infrastructure management services, encounters a great number of Internet
sites that are at various stages of implementing Linux. In many areas, he
says, Linux is ready for prime time, but in others work still remains.

Join Alex, this month’s Planet IT Linux Roundtable host, to discuss the
strengths and weaknesses of Linux in multi-tier architectures with a focus
the following categories:

Linux as a Web server;
Linux as a streaming server;
Linux as an application server;
Linux as a database server.

Join him at
http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/resources/roundtable/linux/PIT200>
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as he discusses Linux & The Multi-Tier Enterprise.

I.T. News reports on the happenings at the Linux Users of Victoria’s largest-ever Installfest at Monash University earlier this month.

Reuters on ZDNet: Competition chief recommends analysis of how competition and antitrust regulation should work on the Internet.

OLinux presents this interview with Bill Portelli, President and CEO of CollabNet.

LinuxWorld discusses the origins of the OSDL.

In this article on migrating from Perl to Python, LinuxPrograming looks at the basic numeric object type.

The Duke of URL reviews the latest release of GNOME from Helix Code.

Newbytes is reporting, Network ICE has released the source code to Altivore, its new e-mail sniffing program.

The legal fight over music-swapping start-up Napster has split
Capitol Hill, reports CNET News, spitting at least one powerful legislator against the Clinton administration.

The St. Louis Post reports on a metal shop in Godfrey that has saved an estimated $226,833 over the last 2 years by switching to Linux hardware and software systems.