HP’s new ‘Superdome’ server is supposed to help HP take some of the big-time Unix server market away from Sun, but in an Inter@ctive Week story, writer Ken Popovich expresses skepticism about their potential success.

“The KDE Project, the group of hackers that created
KDE, is now contemplating the creation of some kind
of foundation entity — which some are calling the
KDE League — to spearhead the direction and
development of KDE,” apparently in an attempt to coutnerbalance the much-covered, recently-formed Gnome Foundation, according to a story at ZDNet News.

At the humor site Segfault.org: The Corel Corporation has filed an injunction this morning against former Corel support technician Phil Lamire, to try to get him to stop answering Linux technical support questions on his rogue Web site.

Handhelds advanced further into the enterprise last week as the
three major platform suppliers, Microsoft, Palm, and Psion,
added functions and eased manageability, from ZDNet News.

Electronic Arts, the world’s leading developer and publisher of video games, today released a statement of support for retailers who have vowed to support the industry’s rating system on games, reports Business Wire.

The Boston Globe reports, CMGI unveiled plans to consolidate its 17 majority-owned businesses around five segments of the Internet, eventually leaving one or two companies in each of those areas.

The Reuters news agency reported that the companies’ most recent
submission to the Federal Communications Commission, filed Thursday,
notes that the open access pledge will cover competing Internet service providers (ISPs) that want to provide such services as Internet telephony and streaming video, but not those that want to provide their services through a set-top box.

This article from Linux Today surmises, MS Office costs businesses about $6 billion each year; with free alternatives like StarOffice that are now available, continuing to pay for MS Office constitutes fiscal irresponsibility.

This Gartner Viewpoint article suggests, to succeed Caldera must articulate a coherent road map for OpenLinux and SCO OpenServer.

Linux Today offers this posting by Richard Stallman to the Debian Developer Mailing List.