Wired.com profiles Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist as a “big thinker.” More from the story: “As he’s been doing for a few months now — when he talks to peer-to-peer and open-source
loving conferences — on Wednesday Joy again described JXTA: It’s a ‘core architecture’ written
in the cross-platform Java language that allows developers to easily build distributed applications.” More from CNet.

From LinuxPR: After 90 days of intense development Open Docs Publishing is now accepting
preorders for their book titled, PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets.

LinuxPR has the item. New website to counter the effects of embrace and extend that seems to be
occuring on the Internet. Examples already exist where you will be locked out
depending upon your OS. It’s at penguinfriendly.org.

Here’s another report on the topic, this one from BrowserWatch. “While you will still see parts of Netscape browsers being
incorporated into distinct tools designed for vertical markets, such
as a version for the Sony Playstation 2, the company will not be
actively focusing on browser development, officials said. Instead,
AOL officials were negotiating with Microsoft to continue using IE
as the browser of choice for AOL, while other alternatives, such as
‘Komodo,’ were under consideration. Komodo technology would
let the AOL service be used by any Web browser.”

At LinuxPR: Easy Software Products today announced
the release of HTMLDOC v1.8.13, a HTML documentation and conversion
program for UNIX and Microsoft Windows.

HTMLDOC v1.8.13 adds support for secure (https) URLs, Acrobat 5.0, and
transparent GIFs in PostScript and older PDF formats.
HTMLDOC is provided under the GNU General Public License. Commercial
support for HTMLDOC is available for $495 US.

Inside.com (via MSNBC) reports that the patents recently awarded to
TiVo, which cover some basic aspects of digital
video recording, will have virtually no effect on ReplayTV, says an executive at the rival company.

From LinuxPR: Internet Exchange Messaging Server (IEMS) 5, the latest messaging solution
from developer International Messaging Associates (IMA), will be released
June 12, 2001. IMA President Tim Kehres gave this announcement as he
expressed optimism over long-term industry prospects, Linux in particular.

From LWN.net: The Australian Unix Users Group would like to announce the third
Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 3), to be held at the ANU in
Canberra on Saturday, 16 June 2001. The purpose of this event is to
bring together the Australian Open Source community on an annual
basis.

From BusinessWire: Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq:CALD), today reported revenue of $1.6 million
for the three months ended April 30, 2001, a 17 percent increase over revenue of $1.4 million for the comparable three-month period of the
previous fiscal year and a 52 percent increase over revenue of $1.1 million for the prior quarter.

From LinuxPR: XINIT Systems announce availability of
next-generation 1U rackmount GNU/Linux servers. As a leading provider of
Linux systems in the UK, the new servers represent a natural progression of
products for the company. The WebLoad 1125 is a 1U rackmount
dual-processor capable server. The 1125 has support for up to 4GB of ECC
synchronous DRAM, a must for todays highly demanding Internet serving
applications and environments, as well as built-in RAID capability. The
distinctive feature of the 1125’s embedded RAID controller is that it is
ATA-based rather than the more common SCSI-based RAID controllers. This
feature reduces the overall cost of the system, compared to a SCSI RAID
solution, while still providing similar levels of performance and reliability – such
as hot-swap functionality of system drives. The 1125 supports RAID-0 for
maximum I/O performance or RAID-1 for maximum data reliability.