Linux Journal asks if Linux would be the success it is today without Ray Noorda planting seeds of question about whether a Microsoft monopoly was wise, and says a similar seed is being planted over Intel’s domination of the processor market.

Linux Insider reports on OSSIM (“awesome”), or Open Source Software Image Map, which is a library that “provides high performance remote sensing, mapping and imaging processing capabilities.

Linux Journal reports on RLX Technologies Inc.’s new System 324 box, which packs 24 Transmeta-based “server blades” into a 3U chassis.

ZDNet reports that the CEO of Caldera, which recently claimed to be the world’s largest Linux company, has come out in support of Microsoft’s position that the GPL is bad for business, and said Caldera will be adding a BSD-based license to its repertoire.

ZDNet reports that the CEO of Caldera, which recently claimed to be the world’s largest Linux company, has come out in support of Microsoft’s position that the GPL is bad for business, and said Caldera will be adding a BSD-based license to its repertoire.

From AustralianIT: “Privacy advocates have slammed hacker lobby
group 2600 over its decision to offer a
reverse phone number search on the internet.

2600, which describes itself as ‘a
loose-knit group of people interested in
computer security’, says its Black Pages
reverse search function is offered in an
effort to put useful technology into the
hands of ordinary people.”

ZDNet: “First Java, then Jini and now Sun has decided
to play peer-to-peer with Juxtapose or JXTA.
Is this the foundation of a very new type of
Web?”

LinuxPR: “Kivio is our answer to Visio from Microsoft for Linux/KDE. Withe the 1.0
release we are now announcing a partner program to encourage more
rapid stencil set development.

If you’ve made a great stencil set for Kivio or would like to, we’d like to
hear from you.”

From CIO (via CNN): “In the 1930s, muscle-bound steel workers served as poster boys for
the AFL-CIO — the American Federation of Labor, then a rising power as the
country’s umbrella union organization.

Workers were in the driver’s seat of the American economy, they called the
shots. Today, it’s the often less-than-strapping IT worker who has slipped
behind the wheel. Can brainy software engineers replace brawny men of yore as
spokesmodels for labor unions and exploited workers in the new economy? The
answer is yes. And no.”

LinuxPR: “Acucorp, Inc. an international provider of application
extension solutions that solve mission critical business issues, today
announced plans to deliver extend TM5 with ACUCOBOL TM-GT on
Linux for IBM S/390® in the second quarter of 2001. The extend 5 family
of solutions allows software developers to leverage their investments in
COBOL applications by transforming these applications into modern
systems. Currently available on over 600 platforms, extend 5 includes
products and services for enabling Internet deployment, graphical
COBOL development, data access, distributed computing, and
increased programmer productivity.”