From a press release at LinuxToday: “IBM has introduced the IBM Start Now Solutions for e-business, a family of
offerings to help small and medium businesses (SMB) rapidly implement e-business solutions.

The eight Start Now Solutions, including three Linux-based solutions, fulfill the requirements of
e-business–from initial Internet access, through e-mail, research and information, Web site
management, simple and complex e-commerce, business intelligence, integrated activities and new
business opportunities.”

From a notice on the Solaris 8 Foundation Source Program site: ”

Thanks for your interest and welcome to the Solaris[tm] 8 Foundation Source Program. Please note that the Solaris 8 Foundation
Source Program will be canceled effective June 30, 2001. In addition, both the secure chat and code-exchange sites will also
be terminated on this date.

We appreciate your feedback and participation the Solaris 8 Foundation Source Program.”

“This release is a load of small fixes and some nice UI acceleration work from
Alexander that should speed up Nautilus window opening noticably.” Read the message from Michael Meeks about the latest changes to Bonobo at LinuxProgramming.com.

Zack Brown anc Paul Emsley post the latest summary of articles from the debian-hurd mailing list. Hot topics in this edition: “Status of ef2sprogs” … “GCC-3.0” … “Status of some packages.”

Linux Journal reviews AppGen’s Moneydance, a Quicken-like personal finance manager written in Java: “…if Quicken is what has been keeping you locked into that other OS, I think you may be able to reclaim a disk partition if you switch over to
Moneydance.”

IBM developerWorks: “Perl is a convenient and effective tool for complex Web applications development. However, even experienced
programmers resist Perl because it seems difficult to learn and use. This article demonstrates that object-oriented
implementation of Perl simplifies the effort and could be much more effective than other Web technologies, especially with
separate design and application functionality.”

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Today, OSDN’s parent company, VA Linux Systems, Inc., announced that
the
company would be taking some significant restructuring steps. As part
of that plan, the company is exiting the hardware business.

However, as you and other loyal readers of OSDN know, OSDN’s focus has
always been on the services we provide to the Open Source community,
and
we do not expect any major changes to OSDN as a result of this
restructuring. The community that is OSDN is a very important part of
who we are.

What does this mean for you? It means that that all of your favorite
OSDN sites — like Slashdot.org, SourceForge.net, freshmeat.net,
Themes.org, Linux.com, NewsForge.com, Geocrawler and QuestionExchange
— will be operating as usual. Indeed, with more focused resources of the
company available to OSDN, we are expecting more growth, more new
features, and more of all that’s made OSDN a success.

I cannot emphasize this point enough: The community is very
important
to OSDN and is ingrained into our culture. We are here to serve the
community, and we look forward to being here for a very long time,
working with you.

— Richard French
Senior Vice President & General Manager
OSDN

It’s on BusinessWire: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:LNUX – news) today outlined its new strategy focusing on application software, as well
as significant restructuring steps designed to immediately improve cash flow and reduce operating
losses.

As part of this strategy, VA Linux will exit the systems hardware business. Hardware orders will be
accepted until July 10, 2001, with the goal of completing all deliveries by the end of the fiscal year,
July 28, 2001. Staffing levels will be reduced by approximately 35% from the fiscal third quarter level
of 436 employees. The majority of layoffs will occur during the current fiscal quarter, with the
remainder over the next several months, as VA completes certain obligations to its customers,
primarily in the area of hardware service and support. (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

It’s posted at LWN.net. Among the items: “KDE 2.2 Alpha Packages: If you want to live on the bleeding edge, Ivan
E. Moore II, the Debian KDE maintainer has made preliminary [2]KDE 2.2
packages available on people.debian.org.”