ZDNet reports that a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court’s ruling calling for the breakup of Microsoft. Slashdot has discussion and more links.

Databeacon, Inc., creator of Internet-based data
analysis and reporting software for the masses, today announced support
for
the Linux operating system for Databeacon 5.1. The Linux version of
Databeacon 5.1 runs on all Linux-based desktop systems, and does not
require
any training, manuals or installation procedures for end users.

According to a March 2001 study by market research firm IDC, Linux is
the
fastest growing operating system for the enterprise. The growth of the
Linux operating system surpassed all other systems in 2000, increasing
its
market share to 27 percent. By developing support for Linux,
Databeacon is
extending its commitment to provide its data analysis software to all
users,
regardless of the platform they are using to run their desktop.

Currently offering support for a variety of operating systems,
including
Microsoft Windows 95,98,2000 and NT; UNIX-IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Sun
Solaris;
and Compaq TRU64, the addition of Linux support further extends
Databeacon’s
mission to provide platform agnostic data analysis tools for the
masses.

“Databeacon is embracing Linux by providing a data analysis tool that
is
completely compliant with the operating system,” said Andrew Coutts,
CEO,
Databeacon. “More companies each year are turning to the
cost-effective and
highly-stable Linux operating system, and Databeacon is committed to
open
source and offering its software to customers on any and all
platforms.”

Databeacon targets Internet-driven organizations that want to deliver
information analysis and reporting capabilities to a mass audience of
casual
users. Databeacon 5.1 allows mass audiences to self-service their data
analysis needs through a simple end-user interface and customized,
pre-defined levels for novice, standard or advanced users. Unlike
traditional business intelligence products, Databeacon 5.1, does not
require
any training, manuals or installation procedures, providing an
appealing
value proposition to companies that want to deliver data analysis and
reporting to Internet-based audiences such as customers, suppliers,
partners, and employees.

About Databeacon, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Databeacon Inc. (formerly InterNetivity Inc.), is the
award
winning developer of Internet-based information analysis and reporting
software to Get Insight Out(tm). Organizations around the world are
using
Databeacon to deploy Information Outreach(tm) applications, defined as
“the
delivery of self-personalized, interactive information and analytical
capabilities to large Internet-based user audiences”. The company’s Web
site
is www.databeacon.com and its headquarters are based in Ottawa, Canada,
with
sales offices across North America, resellers in Europe and Independent
Software Vendor (ISV) partners located around the world.

For more information, please contact:

In Canada
Nathan Rudyk

Databeacon

Tel: 613.729.4480, ext. 304

nrudyk@databeacon.com

Heather Steele
High Road Communications
Tel: 416-368-8348, ext. 229
hsteele@highroad.com

In the U.S.:
Justin Creally
High Road Communications
Tel: 415-262-1982
jcreally@highroad.com

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

Cox writes, “This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre — treat this one with care, it
may
not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made.”

2.4.5-ac20
o Commence resync with 2.4.6pre5
– Merge kernel doc tool changes
– Merge sunrpc printk check change
– Merge net core changes
– Merge Bluetooth stack
– Merge inet proto register
– Merge bridge updates
– Merge net/ipv4 and ipv6 changes
– Merge x86 arch support
– Merge m68k port changes
– Merge ppc port changes
– Merge sparc32/64 changes
– Merge ACPI
– Merge ll_rw_blk changes
– Merge miro rds changes
– Merge USB updates

Kept xtime volatile – pending verification drivers are safe with
this change

Kept old atyfb code (someone needs to sort out which atyfb is the
one being worked on and get that tree into the kernel)

As with 2.4.6pre power management PCI interface changes
mean power management is likely to be broken somewhat

Also there is some kind of deadlock I suspect related to the
mm changes in 2.4.6pre/2.4.5ac14
o Resync with 2.4.6pre6
o Add macserial printk levels (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Add picturebook vaio wide console mode support (Marcel Wijlaars)
o Riscom8 driver printk/regions etc (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o ESP serial driver clean up (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o dz serial driver clean up (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix hangs during heavy buffer I/O (Arjan van de Ven)
(eg mke2fs)
o Clean up doubletalk driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Further imsttfb updates (Paul Mundt)
o MTD missing export fixes (David Woodhouse)
o MTD configure script fixes (me)
o MTD include fixes (me)
o Yamaha pci audio cleanup , longer delay (Pete Zaitcev)
o i810 ioctl fix (Damjan Lango)
o Add printk levels to tty_io.c
and tty_ioctl.c (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Small acm serial driver cleanup (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Printk levels for via-pmu (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Improve kernel-doc parser (Christian Kreibich)
o Disable AMI megaraid 64bit mode (Martti Hyppänen)
| Seems the HP board firmware reports 64bit supported but
| it doesn’t actually work reliably on them

2.4.5-ac19
o Update Gareth Hughes contact info (Gareth Hughes)
o Make sure NFS atime is handled by server (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix Configure.help glitch (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix nfs readdir EIO and duplicates bug (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix netlink removal of proc directory (Herbert Rosmanith)
o Use skb_purge_queue in net stacks (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| lapb, netrom, econet, rose, ax25, atm, sched,
| socket core, unix
o Fix reference after free in eql driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix reference after free in shaper (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Gameport fixes for Alpha (Jeff Garzik)
o Configure.help updates (Eric Raymond)
o JFFS copyright banner update (David Woodhouse)
o Update docs on binfmt_misc java (Kurt Huwig)
o Fix tty release_mem oops (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Pull nfs data out of inode struct (Al Viro)
o Assorted UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Improve missed tick handling on UML (Jeff Dike)
o Fix hdc/hdd reporting on disks in /proc/stat (Martin Wilck)
o Fix sign extension of dirent’s in readdir (Trond Myklebust)
o Ensure LVM dropped snapshot is not reactivated (Joe Thornber)
o Change kiovec handling in LVM (Joe Thornber)

IDG News Service reports on a study saying the Bluetooth wireless technology is expected to generate
worldwide revenue of just under $2 billion in
2001, and $333 billion by 2006.

The study’s by the U.K. branch of U.S.
market research firm Frost & Sullivan, and it predicts
that 4.2 million products using the Bluetooth
technology will be shipped by the end of the year.

An anonymous reader writes: “All Napster users not using the latest security-laden version of the program were cut off by the company today. Get ready for Pay Napster. More at MP3NewsWire.com.“

Saint writes: “This is a review of the FreePM medical practice management software from Free Practice Management, Inc. The software is now in the 1.0 beta 3 testing phase and will probably reach 1.0 general release status in the next few months. This is the first review of open source medical software that LinuxMedNews has done. That this review is possible is a milestone in and of itself as only recently has open source medical software come far enough for a useful review. What is even more astonishing however, is that FreePM has reached its current state of development in only 1.5 years. According to the company, it is ready for comparison to its closed-source competitors that cost far more. Should you be excited? Read on.”

Wired: “In a country of nearly 1 billion people, there are only about 2 million PCs. This could change with the “Simputer,” a Net-accessible computer that could cost about $200.”

LinuxPR: “Digital Spinner, a web design and
development company, announced today the fourth release candidate of
the GroupIT Engine (http://www.groupit.org), a PHP-based content
management and group collaboration system…”

The Register: “Corel has found itself in the black once again, with a small profit of $2.3 million (two
cents a share).

That’s rather better than the $23.6 million loss is posted this time last year and up on
the break-even figure of $534,000 it recorded for Q1 this year.”

Time.com: “Joel went out of town recently, which allowed me to duck into his
office and install spying software on his hard drive. You can buy
commercial spyware these days, but I used VNC, which can be
downloaded for free. VNC was designed to help people link their own
computers. But it also worked as a cheap and easy way for me to
keep tabs on Joel. Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was
rifling through Joel’s hard drive.”