Business Wire reports, Oracle and Sun Microsystems today announced plans for a new platform-independent standard for creating, storing, accessing and managing data and metadata in OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) servers.

The next administration should take
a hint from Silicon Valley startups, a new economy
entrepreneur told legislators this week. From Medill News Service.

New systems from HP hit both the power and midrange
charts this month, along with debuts from Axis
Systems and Tiny Computers. IDG.net tells us all about it.

Thinking of trying out one of
those services that pay you to surf?
Better do it soon. Their own
popularity–and vulnerability–is
threatening their survival. From PCWorld.com.

The Usenix Association is holding its first Java Virtual Machine
Research & Technology Symposium at Monterey, Califonia in April 2001.
See the Call for Papers. –Saul Wold

Canadian politician Anne McLellan might not be quite as
famous an American Actress Julia Roberts. But when it
comes to filing complaints against so-called
domain-name “cybersquatters,” the signature of Canada’s justice minister
– also the nation’s attorney general – is probably worth noting, reports Newsbytes.com.

Newsbytes.com reports that the question of online privacy is a headline topic at the sixth annual
technology policy summit sponsored by the nonprofit Progress and
Freedom Foundation, currently underway in Aspen, Colo.

From a story at Silicon.com: Despite some success, it will be
10 to 15 years
before home users begin to adopt Linux. -jamiemccarthy

And adios Mike
Cowpland. Corel will never be the same, says Charles Cooper of ZDNN.

Songstress Madonna has filed a complaint with a United Nations organization
to wrest the domain name Madonna.com from the clutches of
Whitehouse.com owner Dan Parisi. From ZDNN.