Hi-tech offenses like Internet fraud, e-mail abuse, computer hacking and virus spreading look set to increase during the next 20 years, according to a survey of British crime trends reported by Reuters.

The TradeClient Project and Bynari Inc. has announced releases of TradeServer for several platforms including FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Releases for commercial Unices such as Sun Microsystem’s Solaris and SCO’s UnixWare 7 were announced. Similar binaries for TradeClient have also become available. The TradeServer and TradeClient binaries are 100% interoperable. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From an InfoWorld story: “One of the bigger challenges Linux has faced in gaining acceptance as a platform for enterprise-class services is the lack of applications and support from big-name software vendors. Oracle recently released a complete Linux port of its Java-based Oracle Internet Application Server 8i (Oracle iAS),which represents the last piece of Oracle’s foundation technology to be ported to Linux.” InfoWorld interviewed Bob Shimp, senior director of Internet platform marketing at Oracle.

The VMouse is cross-platform and requires no driver installation, making the device compatible with systems as varied as iMacs and Linux boxes, reports PC World.

Worldly Investor columnist Mitch Ratcliffe says Red Hat “wears the pants” among the top Linux companies investors should consider.

Loki Software, Inc., the
leading publisher of best-selling games for the Linux operating system,
accepted the coveted “Best of Show” award from IDG World Expo during the
Show Favorites Awards ceremony at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. The press release is at LWN.net.

Dick Sullivan, vice president of integrated solutions marketing at IBM’s Software Group, talks to InfoWorld about IBM’s future Linux and Open Source initiatives.

From a story at TheStandard.com: “While noncommittal on whether Napster should be held liable for infringing on the copyrights of the major record labels, several Internet industry coalitions and trade groups, representing companies such as America Online, Yahoo and Intel, are taking issue with a federal judge’s ruling last month in the bellwether case.”

A defective memory component that Sun Microsystems Inc. has been quietly trying to fix for the past several months is continuing to create major problems for some large users of Sun’s Ultra Enterprise Unix servers, according to a story at Computerworld.

Four businessmen have trademarked country domains that begin with MP3, and now they’ve formed an alliance, reports TheStandard.com.