Interactive Week follows up on the controversy over a Gartner Group study saying Linux has a smaller percentage of server shipments than previous studies have reported.

Kelly McNeill writes, “Like it or not, it took a lot of guts for Stewart Alsop to write the article he did and ‘rethink the Mac as a factor in computing.’ Still, Mac fans everywhere — loyal to the cause — are quick to point out that his renewed fondness is something he never should have lost. I ask those of you relishing the thought of watching this man eat a dinner of crow to consider whether he was correct to bail out when he did.” More of the opinion piece at osOpinion.

eWeek reviews the REd Hat Tux 2.0 Web server and says it has “explosive performance” that should allow IT managers to build faster and more scalable server farms.

Commentary by the Meta Group on CNet: “Recent comments by Microsoft executives about Linux and the
open-source movement being a ‘cancer’ — as well as the latest
statistics on new licenses for Linux vs. Microsoft
Windows — should be interpreted with a healthy degree of
skepticism.”

Kelly McNeill writes, “The Linux development model based on selling only the service and support rather than the normal method of selling a product has seduced many tech workers. To those who subscribe to this method, selling software as a ‘product’ borders on immoral. To them, software is a means for sharing information and ideas rather than tools that make our computers easier to use. Ownership of Microsoft Office or Mac OS 9 is only a means to deprive someone of information. Making money takes a backseat to making the world a better place through Linux.” The column is at osOpinion.

From a column at ZDNet: “(The current debate is) not a debate about
whether Microsoft will adopt the principles of the open source movement and share the source
code of its OS, Windows.

Ain’t happening. Ain’t gonna happen.”

From BusinessWire: Sleepycat Software, Inc. today announced that Ask Jeeves, Inc., has
selected Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB embedded database for question answering data management. With the assistance of Berkeley DB,
Ask Jeeves answers tens of millions of questions every day on Ask Jeeves Web Properties and Business Solutions sites that license Ask
Jeeves search and customer intelligence gathering technology.

From theDukeofURL.org: “This is Red Hat’s best release yet. They set new standards in hardware support, have improved their
installation program, auto-detect more hardware, and have increased the security of their distribution.
Now if they could have RPM automatically resolve software dependencies we would have a perfect
distribution.”

LinuxPR has this: Today, Voxel Dot Net announced its release of
Ãœbersmith 1.0 (http://www.ubersmith.com/). Developed as a cross-platform
web-based application, Ãœbersmith is a revolutionary way to manage a growing
web hosting company — it’s an integrated application that streamlines both the
large and small hosting business. By allowing a host to manage their clients,
billing, and support with a single solution, Ãœbersmith makes it easy for providers
to manage and automate their back-office tasks.

eEye has a security notice. “Attackers that leverage the vulnerability can, from a remote location, gain full SYSTEM
level access to any server that is running a default installation of Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 2000, or Windows XP and using Microsoft’s IIS Web Server software.”