LinuxPlanet reports: “Bookseller behemoth Amazon.com is getting set to put its monstrous database on Linux instead of HP-UX. In doing the heavy lifting, Amazon.com’s IT staffers will work alongside Red Hat, just as they did during an earlier migration of Amazon.com’s entire application and middle tiers.”

NYLUG will meet Wednesday 21 August 2002 in the IBM building at 57th Street
and Madison Avenue. You must register in advance to attend, or have registered for an earlier NYLUG meeting in the IBM building. Particulars below in official
announcement.
Eating and drinking after the formal meeting is now at The Old Stand
at 914 Third Avenue, near 55th Street, on the Island of the Manahattoes. Official NYLUG announcement below.

— Jay Sulzberger
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York’s Free Computing Organization
http://www.lxny.org

The New York Linux Users Group presents

Lori Sackowitz
– on –
Making Money on the Internet Using
WebSphere Commerce Server for Linux

August 21, 2002
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street

** RSVP Instructions**
Unless you have already rsvp’ed for a prior meeting, everyone
needs to rsvp to attend.
mailto: rsvp@nylug.org Subject: RSVP – NYLUG – AUG – your name
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.

WebSphere Commerce Server for Linux:

In the post dot-collapse economy, the question on every
businessman’s mind is “How do I make money on this Internet?” The
days where CEOs brag on TV about their losses in favor of
“mindshare” are long behind us. The order of the day is
profitability.

Please join us on August 21, at the IBM Linux Center of Competence
for a presentation by Lori Sackowitz and John Wenzel on using
WebSphere Commerce Studio (WCS) under Linux to integrate critical
business processes essential to generating profit from retail
business-to-consumer and business-to-business operations.

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/commerce/commercestudio/

WCS is an open standards-based (J2EE, XML, UDDI, SOAP and WSDL)
soup-to-nuts solution used to streamline your Web storefront and
plug into back-end ERP systems. It includes an IDE and a
comprehensive suite of tools for creating everything from images to
Java applications to access control systems. Developers can use
IBM VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition as a test environment for
their applications without having to upload to a WCS server.
WebSphere is a scalable platform, that can be used with commodity
hardware all the way up through to mainframe Linux systems. This will
be a technical presentation.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020731/bs_nf/18821

WebSphere on Tux:

• Websphere evaluation download center
• Tutorial: Deploying a J2EE application to WebSphere
  Application Server on Linux
• WebSphere for Linux HQ

http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/downloads/evaluation.html#newStudio

http://www.ibm.com/websphere/developer/library/tutorials/0206_wosnick/wosnick_reg.html

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/software/websp.shtml

Stammtisch plug:
Have you been to stammtisch lately?

Free Stuff!
Swag of undetermined value and quantity will be distributed on a
first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best pickins!

Keysignings
Immediately after the presentation and continuing at the Old Stand
pub, we will be gathering for a keysigning. So for those who have
keys already, please remember to bring hard-copy printouts of your
40-character key fingerprint. If you haven’t created a key yet, our
howto docs are posted here: http://www.nylug.org/keys

Stammtisch
And then after the meeting… Join us around 8:15pm or so at the
Old Stand, 914 3rd Ave. on the corner of 55th Street.

Next Month’s Meeting
Web Development with PHP, presented by Hans Zaunere of NYPHP

Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other
good stuff.

Monthly Reminder!
Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at:
http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/

With the generous support of IBM, all NYLUG.org meetings are held
regularly at the IBM headquarters building located at 590 Madison
Ave. on the corner of 57th Street in mid-town Manhattan. Meetings
take place every third Wednesday of the month starting at 6:30pm.

NewsFlash!
6/20/02: IBM Launches The Linux Center of Competence –
NYLUG’s Homebase of Operations
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020620/202438_1.html

August 2002 – The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org

Thanks to Ron Guerin for this announcement. His birthday is on
the 22nd!

LinuxToday has links to a study by the University of Maastricht. “The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of Maastricht has published its final report. The results of the survey show that Debian is the preferred distribution, GNOME the preferred desktop, and vi more popular than Emacs. This survey also handles economic, law-related, and motivational aspects among developers.”

OfB.biz writes: “Andreas Pour is well known to most everyone in the K Desktop Environment (KDE) community. Considering that KDE is the leading desktop for Linux, if you are investigating GNU/Linux workstations, you are sure to run into Pour’s work. He graciously agreed to participate in a series of exclusive interviews with Open for Business’ Timothy R. Butler. Read the interview here.”

Wired.com reports on Linux being used for running the U.S. Open tennis tournament’s major information systems and moving data around the world. “Laptop computers running Linux will be used on the tennis courts to collect and transmit scores during the games. The scores will then be electronically delivered directly to the press and fans. The laptops will also feed those tallies directly to the Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium’s massive scoring boards, both on the courts and outside the stadium, where thousands of fans congregate between matches.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “DesktopLinux.com reader John Murray contributes this call to action to support Linux companies and open source projects. Murray offers a simple plan to help contribute to the efforts of developers – put your money where your mouth is … Read full story.”

mark writes: “The Java Pdf Extraction Decoding Access Library is an LGPL library to extract content from Adobes pdf files as well as drawing page previews. It allows the contents to be extracted as XML and to preserve the font information as XML metadata. Full source code is available and it is being actively developed.

Try it now at http://www.jpedal.org“

Anonymous Reader writes: “Highlighting recent Government sector progress AUUG Inc., the Australian
UNIX and Open Systems group, calls on Federal and State agencies to further
accelerate the adoption of Open Source software deployment within the Government
sector.”
SYDNEY, Australia — 20 August 2002 — The Australian UNIX and Open
Systems User Group (AUUG, Inc.) today congratulated the Government sector
on recent progress in the adoption of Open Source and called for the accelerated
adoption of Open Standards based Open Source solutions such as Linux and
BSD within departments and agencies. The call follows two recent significant
Open Source wins.  The first a month ago, when the key federal government
department CentreLink, the world’s twelfth largest processing organisation,
announced that it had established a world class Linux Laboratory in collaboration
with IBM to reduce costs and raise the flexibility of the agency’s IT systems.
The second came last week, when the Federal Department of Veterans’ Affairs
announced that it is moving file and print services for all branch offices
to an IBM zSeries mainframe running Linux.

“It’s clear that IT departments within government agencies are being
attracted to Open Source software such as Linux,” says Gordon Hubbard,
AUUG Inc. Press Secretary.  “What we’d like to see now is a commitment
within government that actively supports and encourages the use of Linux
and other Open Source systems to reduce licensing fees, thus saving money,
and to provide open, stable and secure government IT infrastructure solutions.”

AUUG is calling on the Government sector to review all areas of IT procurement
and information standards to ensure that there is no bias against Open
Standards based Open Source solutions. This would allow government IT managers
to calculate the true ROI for each software acquisition and deployment 
– enabling the comparison of open and closed solutions on an equal footing. 
A comparison that AUUG believes Open Source will win. Ultimately delivering
major savings to Australian tax payers.

In addition to ROI issues Open Standards based systems provide Open
file formats and interfaces, thus increase the accessibility of Government
information and services to all citizens without discrimination.

“We are asking for a level playing field which will empower government
IT managers to consider all of the options when considering server operating
environments”, said Hubbard. The AUUG call follows recent announcements
by government bodies in Germany, France, Taiwan and Peru to variously endorse
and encourage the use of open source solutions within their agencies.

AUUG’s call comes ahead of its annual national conference, to be held
in Melbourne from 1-6 September 2002.  Themed “Measure, Monitor, Control”,
the conference will focus on Security, Network Monitoring, Open Source
and Business, Large Scale System Management and Wireless Networking. The
conference will also see the presentation of the inaugural Australian Open
Source Awards to encourage and recognise the excellence and dedication
of Australians contributing in the Open Source arena. For conference information
and registration details visit http://www.auug.org.au/conf/auug2002/.

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About AUUG Incorporated
AUUG Inc. is the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group, a professional
association for end users, corporations, developers and vendors that promotes
UNIX® and related systems, including Linux and BSD.  Dating from
1975, AUUG is a national body with chapters that organize local activities
in most capital cities.

Visit http://www.auug.org.au/
or contact AUUG at: AUUG Inc., PO Box 366, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia.
Free Call 1800 625 655, Fax 02 8824 9522, International: Tel +61 2 8824
9511, Fax +61 2 8824 9522, E-mail: auug@auug.org.au.
ACN A00 166 36N, ABN 15 645 981 718.

Press Contact
Gordon Hubbard
Treasurer and Press Secretary, AUUG Inc.
<Gordon.Hubbard@auug.org.au>
Tel: 02 9659 9590
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code_martial writes: “Wired Technology News reports that a hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry embedded in e-mails will be used to guarantee that any message containing the verse is spam free. And if spammers dare to hijack the haiku, they will be aggressively sued for copyright infringement. Read More.”

Seth Nickell writes: “The GNOME Usability Project is proud to announce the release of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (v1.0), the product of usability engineers, designers, hackers, and Irish wine. The guidelines deliver both specific advice on making effective use of interface elements, as well as the philosophy and general principles behind the guidelines. Read the release announcement (including a plea for interface unity between free software projects), or jump straight to the meat.”