The latest edition of Tcl news and links are now posted at Linux Weekly News: “Jean-Luc Fontaine announces tclperl version 2.3″ … ” R. D. Findlay inspires a brief discussion about Tk and embedded
Linux systems” … “Brent Welch maintains “The Tcl Developer Xchange”, a highly
organized resource center of documents and software with
provisions for individuals to “set up a link to your software
and update … as you release new versions.””

From a press release at Linux Weekly News: “The GnuCash Development Team
http://www.gnucash.org> proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6,
the GNU personal finance manager. GnuCash features a full account
hierarchy manager, a checkbook-like register GUI to enter
transactions, and a full set of reports to visualize the state of your
finances. The new release comes with a configurable main window, a
much improved checking and general ledger entry window, and over ten
completely new graphical reports including pie charts and bar charts
using the GNU plot program Guppi http://www.gnome.org/guppi>.”

eWEEK: ” Oracle Corp. rolls out its Oracle9i database this week, it will
boast some 450 new or improved features over its predecessor, 8i.
Though early testers are impressed with the software, it won’t
necessarily be smooth sailing for the database king, as competition
heats up and users ponder whether to upgrade.”

Interactive Week: “HP’s new Internet Server, introduced last week, will be given away to all comers, including competitors, in the company’s bid to get builders
of Web services to follow its technology lead and to get back into a
leadership role in both the Java and Web services communities.

Internet Server moves beyond the typical Web server – whether open
source Apache or Microsoft Internet Information Server, which
primarily serve up HTML pages – but stops short of trying to be a
commercial application server – such as Sun Microsystems’ iPlanet or
BEA Systems’ WebLogic, which provide many database services and
connection services beyond the Web connection.”

The Los Ageles Times reports: “For at least 17 days at the height of the energy crisis,
hackers mounted an attack on a computer system that is integral to the movement
of electricity throughout California, a confidential report obtained by The Times
shows.
The hackers’ success, though apparently limited, brought to light lapses in
computer security at the target of the cyber-attack, the California Independent
System Operator, which oversees most of the state’s massive electricity
transmission grid.”

eWEEk reports on a major disagreement brewing over the actual Linux server market share. Gartner Dataquest recently reported that just 8.6 percent of 3Q 2000 servers sold were Linux-based, 93 percent of that number shipped with Red Hat’s Linux distribution. Rival research group IDC, however, has numbers slighly different, showing Linux with 27 percent of the total server market. Interesting data point: The Gartner survey was sponsored by Microsoft.

eWEEK: “Although it was created by a phone maker and aimed at the cellular
phone industry, the short-range wireless protocol called Bluetooth is
now finding more of a home in devices for the enterprise.

While the shift from phone to peripheral device has vexed the big cell
phone makers, which happen to be the largest backers of the
technology, it could bode well for enterprise users eyeing Bluetooth
for commercial applications.”

Pasadena, Paris, 11th June 2001 – In response to the
ever growing user
demand, MandrakeSoft announces today the
availability of the Beta1
version of Mandrake Linux PPC, based Mandrake Linux
8.0.MandrakeSoft and Apple follow the same philosophy: to offer the most user-friendly and easy-to-use solution. Thanks to Mandrake Linux PPC 8.0, the widely acclaimed Mandrake Linux distribution is now available for PowerPC G3 and G4.

Mandrake Linux PPC Beta 1 features:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppc.php3

Mandrake Linux PPC Beta 1 will be available for
download in few hours on
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3

Hot off the presses and onto the servers at Linux Weekly News, it’s Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL, the roundup of weekly news and links of note for the Python development community. In this issue: intelligent agent infrastructure pyagent hits version 1.00, MapIt! 1.0, a Web application for navigating raster-maps makes its presence known, and pointers to an in-depth discussion on the overall speed of Python.

CERN’s Information Technology Division recently accepted the 21st Century Achievement Award from the Computerworld Honors Program, for its work in developing large-scale data warehousing technology. The architecture, known as SHIFT, is described in the press release at AlphaGalileo as a “massive system with thousands of Linux PC nodes.”