MandrakeSecure is another community offering for users of Mandrake Linux. The site is dedicated completely to security, and how security
interacts with Mandrake Linux. It provides links and information to a variety of security resources, including other web sites and open source
software, and includes feature articles written specifically about security aspects related to Mandrake Linux.MandrakeSoft is a company dedicated to improving system and user security. From sponsoring open source security tools such as prelude and
Bastille Linux, to including powerful open source security tools in the Mandrake Linux distribution itself, MandrakeSoft’s goal is to provide the
latest in comprehensive Linux security to their users. MandrakeSecure is merely one more step forward in accomplishing that goal.

“This new website dedicated to security under Linux, is a new step in MandrakeSoft’s unique tradition to providing highly-secured solutions to
the IT world. It will be providing, day to day, the freshest informations and software updates needed by Mandrake Linux users to keep their system
immune to potential attacks,” said Vincent Danen, security updates manager at MandrakeSoft.

The site also provides community interaction by providing an online discussion forum and new mailing lists devoted to security, including a
user-based support list for the Single Network Firewall, a firewall/router product also published by MandrakeSoft.

The MandrakeSecure website is available at:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net

About MandrakeSoft

MandrakeSoft provides a trusted interface between users of information technology and open source developers. The company offers customers
in the small office, home office (SoHo), small and medium size enterprise, government and educational sectors a set of GNU Linux and
Open-Source software and related services, user-friendly and highly competitive information technologies at a very attractive total cost of
ownership. In addition, MandrakeSoft offers technologists committed to open software and courseware a trusted channel to offer their services.

The company has technologists in over 20 countries, and entered Paris Euronext Marché Libre on July 30th, 2001 (Euroclear code: 4477.PA;
Reuters code: MAKE.PA). The Mandrake Linux distribution received awards for “Best Product of the Year” and “Best Linux Distribution/Server” at
LinuxWorld Expo ’99, as well as the PC Answers Platinum Award in April 2000, the Linux Magazine Editor’s Choice Award in September 2000
and the Chip Magazine “Best Technique and Winner of the Test” in December 2000.

‘Born on the Internet’ in late 1998, MandrakeSoft established headquarters in Pasadena (U.S.), Montreal (Canada), England, Germany and Paris
(Europe). Please visit the Web site, http://www.mandrakesoft.com for more information about MandrakeSoft.

Kelly McNeill writes: “Last week, Microsoft proposed to justice seekers that it will pay all their legal costs and attorney’s fees if they agree to join those who — for all intents and purposes — gave up on finding an appropriate remedy for the confirmed monopolist. The only stipulation is that the states must accept this offer within 10 days.”

Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) today began previewing a pre-release
version of Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 and will begin shipping the new version during the first quarter of
2002. Caldera is extending the web-based systems management capabilities of Volution Manager to support the
latest versions of all major distributions of Linux as well as Caldera UNIX products. In addition, Caldera is
introducing several new systems management features in Volution Manager to help system administrators and
solution providers save time, scale resources, and ease deployments in a cost effective manner.

Caldera(r) Volution(tm) Manager is a secure, web-based, systems management solution that reduces the cost of
deploying and managing established versions of Linux and Caldera OpenServer, UnixWare and Open Unix. Volution
Manager does so by enabling secure, remote management, monitoring and updating of multiple systems through a
browser. Volution Manager 1.1 has several new enhancements including: 
- Extended platform support that unifies management of multiple platforms into one interface
- New install options that simplify reviews, evaluations and deployments
- New Wizards that simplify common tasks and reduce the initial learning curve
- New status and diagnostic features that reduce troubleshooting time and allows greater control
- Integration with Compaq Insight Manager that provides a comprehensive management solution for Linux and
Caldera UNIX products on Compaq hardware
- New customer response capabilities to monitored events that improves response and uptime for troubled
systems
- Integration with Volution Online providing an Internet delivered, proactive software management service for
Linux and UNIX systems

"Caldera has a unique and powerful solution in the market because they provide both a management product and
service to customers through Volution Manager and Volution Online," said Dr. Bill Claybrook, Research
Director for industry research firm Aberdeen Group. "Caldera is making a good move to extend the management
capabilities of Volution Manager 1.1 to support the latest versions of all major Linux distributions as well
as their UNIX operating systems with OpenServer, UnixWare and Open Unix. CIOs will clearly make their IT
organizations more effective and save time and money by managing their systems with Volution Manager."

"Volution Manager 1.1 is a great example of how Caldera is adding value for our customers and partners beyond
our operating systems," said Ransom Love, president and CEO, Caldera International. "We've seen a great deal
of interest from our customers and partners in ways that we can better help them manage their systems and
we're extending that capability with Volution Manager 1.1 to all of our UNIX customers and partners and those
who have deployed Linux in their environments. Customers and partners will save valuable time and money by
managing more resources with less effort, while increasing the level of service that they provide to their
customers or companies."

Key Benefits of Volution Manager 1.1
- Saves time and reduces costs
- Unifies management and simplifies administration
- Operates and integrates through open standards
- Leverages and extends existing resources
- Eases new system deployments
- Helps in managing change

Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 is the next product from Caldera's Volution product family. In addition, Caldera
recently began shipping Volution Messaging Server, and also began offering Caldera Volution Online,
representing Caldera's next steps in extending the necessary infrastructure to deliver comprehensive
web-enabled applications to existing customers. In addition, Caldera provides education, support and
professional services for customers interested in accessing additional services for implementing Caldera
software across organizations.

Pricing and Availability
Caldera Volution Manager 1.1 is currently in open beta and can be downloaded along with a beta license from
Caldera's web site at www.caldera.com/products/beta. Volution Manager will be generally available during Q1
of 2002 and pricing will be announced when the product ships. For more information about Volution Manager
1.1, go to www.caldera.com/products/volution/ or call Caldera at 1-888-GO-LINUX or outside the U.S., call
+1-801-765-4999. Customers may visit www.caldera.com/partners to find a solution provider in their area.

Caldera International, Inc.
Caldera International (Nasdaq: CALD) is the leader in "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business." Caldera was
the first to create the "Develop-on, Deploy-on, Manage" strategy for Linux-based clients and servers. Based
in Orem, UT, Caldera has representation in 82 countries and has 15,000+ resellers worldwide. For more
information on Caldera products and services, visit http://www.caldera.com.

Caldera, Caldera Volution, OpenLinux, Open Server, Open Unix and "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business" are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other
products, services, companies, events and publications are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks
of their respective owners in the U.S. and/or other countries. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus
Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries.

Forward Looking Statements
The statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.  The
Company wishes to advise readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements.  Those factors include the failure of the products
described above to operate as designed due to incompatibility with some platforms or other defects; our
reliance on developers in the open source community; new and changing technologies and customer acceptance of
those technologies; the Company's ability to compete effectively with other companies; failure of our brand
to achieve the broad recognition necessary to succeed; unenforceability of the GNU general public license;
our reliance on third party developers of components of our software offerings; claims of infringement of
third-party intellectual property rights; and disruption in the Company's distribution sales channel. These
and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially, are also discussed in the Company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-Q.

Kelly McNeill writes: “A handful of major cable companies came to the temporary rescue of beleaguered cable Internet provider Excite@Home with deals to extend the company’s life by infusing hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several months. Subject to approval by Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas E. Carlson, both Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications said Tuesday that their separate three-month, US$160 million deals would ensure their customers’ uninterrupted Internet service until their own networks could be built.”

Dave writes: “Updated OpenSSH packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and 7.2. These packages fix a vulnerability which exists when a
server is configured with the “UseLogin” option. More info at RedHatBox.org.”

– By Mike Newlands –

As Linux shows signs of becoming the operating system of choice for Web

servers in Japan, there are moves toward consolidation in the Linux sector,
with the latest merger announced between 10art-ni and Northern Lights Computer.

10art-ni (for those who haven’t figured it out) is intranet spelled
backwards, and the company specializes in consignment development of
Linux-based systems. Northern Lights specializes in providing
Linux-installed servers and brings with it experience in developing cluster
servers and super parallel processing servers, and in verifying systems
requirements.

When the companies merge next month, retaining the 10art-ni name, they will
concentrate on large-scale Linux-based systems — a section of the market in
which they believe there is considerable growth potential, according to
company spokesman Makoto Sekikawa.

He told NewsForge: “The Linux market is growing rapidly here in Japan.
Northern Lights Computer is a hardware vendor focused on Linux, and 10art-ni
is a systems integrator focused on Linux and Java … Merging the two companies will allow us
to be the number one total Linux solution provider in Japan.”

Gary Barnett, a principal consultant with British analyst and consulting
company Ovum said: “This is potentially important for the market as a whole.
The development of a highly scalable Linux distribution is crucial if it is
to present a really viable alternative to high-end Unix. Bear in mind that a
number of vendors — notably IBM — are looking at clustered Linux so this is
going to be an exciting and dynamic space over the next 12 months.”

Disagreement over the numbers

Akira Ishitani, senior vice president of Otsuka Corp, the largest shareholder
in 10art-ni, expects major growth in the Linux server business in Japan, according to his company’s numbers. “Linux-based servers now have a 7.5% share of the Japanese server market, but we believe this share will grow to 30% in the future and if this is the case the need for large-scale Linux systems will increase,” Ishitani said.

A survey conducted by Impress Communications Corp and Access Media
International reported that the Linux operating system is now used on more than
35% of corporate servers in Japan, although many also use other operating
systems as well. The survey results showed Linux to be the third most
popular OS after Windows NT and Windows 2000.

The survey, which was conducted during August this year, was based on
responses received from 700 corporate server users and 147 systems
integration companies. Nikkei Business Daily said it was the
first survey aimed at gauging the popularity of Linux in Japan.

Of the systems running Linux, the survey found 63.1% were used as Web
servers, 41.5% as DNS servers and 40.3% for file sharing. But use of Linux
servers for business software and e-commerce remains low.

According to International Data Corp (IDC), there will be 65,000 Linux-based
servers in Japan by 2003, an extraordinary increase over the 1998 total of
2,200. The IDC predictions are based on a 97% compound annual growth rate.

But Ovum’s Barnett suggested there are difficulties getting figures for Linux
penetration in Japan, because it’s used for several different functions. Some Linux advocates also suggest company IT departments deploy Linux without managers knowing about it. “I’m afraid we don’t have any figures for Linux adoption anywhere — and I would be deeply skeptical of anyone who says they have,” he says.

Commenting on the figures provided by Ishitani he said: “If these figures
talk in terms of cash revenues, then the market share is way way below 7%
currently and will definitely not exceed 30% in 24 months’ time. If they
relate to installed base (which I think is more likely) then this could
certainly be true on the surface. The problem is that Linux is installed as
both a desktop OS, a ‘home server,’ and as a mainstream server OS.

“Linux installations as a replacement for mainstream server OSes are
currently very, very low indeed (below 1%) — but ramping up sharply, but my gut feel is that 10% would be more realistic over 24 months than 30%.”

Growing the company

10art-ni goes into the merger with 94 employees, and its revenue for the
2000-01 financial year was 1.03 billion yen ($8.5 million USD). Northern Lights Computer has 30 employees and had revenue of 460 million yen in the last financial year. According to Sekikawa, the merger will give revenue a boost to 2 billion yen in the
2001-02 financial year. Ishitani was quoted by Nikkei Business as saying
this could increase to 20 billion yen ($164 million) the following financial year.

When it was established in 1997, 10art-ni’s mission statement was to “drive
the paradigm shift from Desktop to WebTop computing using Java and
Linux-based solutions,” according to its promotional materials. The company is a Red Hat Linux Master distributor for Japan, and developed the first Japanese sales management system using Java and IBM SanFrancisco application components. It has quickly migrated from small through medium to large-scale customers.

Established in 1998, Open Source solution provider Northern Lights Computer
designs high-performance products ranging from IA servers to storage
systems. It has also focused on the development of Linux-based e-business
solutions. The company markets its own brand of Linux-based systems
comprised primarily of rack-mounted servers, and customers include leading
ISPs and ASPs. CEO and company president Nobuo Kita spent six years in Silicon
Valley before returning to Japan to establish Northern Lights.

U.S. firms competing in Japan

Several U.S. firms have also been active in forging partnerships in Japan as the
Linux server market takes off there.

Linuxcare Inc. announced recently it had entered into a certification,
service and support-based strategic partnership with Japanese company Inter
Space Planning Corp. Earlier in the year Linuxcare forged a
similar agreement with Hitachi Electronics subsidiary Densa Techno Tokyo
K.K. Under the agreements, Linuxcare Labs certifies the Japanese firms’
hardware against the Linux kernel and also provides high-level back-line
support.

Said Linuxcare president and CEO Fernand B Sarrat at the time: “Japanese
businesses are embracing the many advantages of the Linux operating system.”

One of Japan’s top IT companies, Fujitsu Ltd., recently entered into a
strategic alliance with Linux vendor Caldera Systems Inc. Fujitsu will
distribute the OpenLinux OS package on its servers and tap Caldera’s
education and certification programs to add value to its new corporate-level
Linux-based solutions.

Turbolinux has also made significant advances in the market. It recently announced its Linux server OS has been deployed, along with a cluster of IBM Netfinity 5000 Servers, to power one of Japan’s largest consumer e-commerce Web sites run by Deodeo, a consumer electronics, software and music retailer. “Working with Deodeo, IBM and our local systems integrator, we
were successful in providing a mission-critical solution against a competing
proprietary UNIX solution that would have cost the customer four times as
much money,” said Turbolinux CEO Cliff Miller.

Kelly McNeill writes “Consolidation in the technology industry is necessary, natural and likely to continue, given the industry’s recent explosive growth, the chairman of Compaq Computer Corp. said Monday. “We’re probably going to go through a period now of consolidation in many [technology-related] industries, which is the logical thing that follows a period of hyper-growth,” Michael Capellas said at a tech conference.”

CNet reports “One of four arbitrators that help work out domain-name squabbles plans to leave the business, saying the dispute-resolution process unfairly favors trademark holders and large corporations over individuals.”

EE Times reports that “a technology with the improbable name of silicon-on-nothing (SON) could emerge as a candidate to replace silicon-on-insulator (SOI) as a technique for improving logic circuit performance given Toshiba Corp.’s successful construction and testing of a SON MOSFET, the company’s engineers said.”

Kelly McNeill writes “A new computer worm known as “Goner” that is capable of disabling computer security measures is spreading quickly throughout the Internet despite its simple structure, static subject line and message, according to antivirus experts. Officially referred to as “W32.Goner.A,” “GONE.A” or “WORM_GONER.A,” the mass-mailing worm that attacks Microsoft Outlook, ICQ instant messaging and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users was discovered early Tuesday.”