“Bynari Inc. announced today the availability of a new line of messaging
and collaboration products, called Insight, and revealed a major technological breakthrough for Linux desktops.

With their new Insight products, Bynari believes that Linux and UNIX desktops in the enterprise will now be able to play in the same game with other popular
messaging products such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.” Read the press release at Yahoo.

“For those of you running an apt-get upgrade today on an unstable box, be prepared for a nice suprise. Debian packages for XFree86 release 4.0.3 are making their way from incoming to mirrors.” Read the post at Debian Planet.

“How can you justify spending $2m on a Windows machine? With some
difficulty it seems: sales have been sluggish and a mole reports that UK
sales are ‘in single figures,'” The Register reports that Compaq has followed HP’s lead, dropping Unisys’ ES7000 “Windows mainframe” server.

“Saafnet believes its forthcoming AlphaShield 2000 technology provides
immunity from cyberattack for home users and small business with always
on broadband connections.

To test these claims Saafnet 24-year-old founder and chief executive
officer, Vikash Sami, has stated that he’s prepared to pay $1 million – in
cash – to anyone who can prove him wrong during a five day contest this
Summer.” Full story at The Register.

From a press release at Yahoo: “VA Linux Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of the ultradense
VA Linux 1221 server — a full-featured, high-performance 1U Linux server offering remote management capabilities with VACM(TM), VA’s cluster
management software. The 1221 server is the latest addition to VA’s family of high-density 1U rackmount Linux servers ideal for large-scale deployments in
web server farms and compute clusters.” (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge)

eEye Digital Security issued a
security bulletin
today warning that all servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft IIS 5.0 can be remotely compromised, giving system-level access. As
Microsoft’s writeup
says, “It would give the attacker complete control of the server. She could load and execute any program she chose on the machine,” etc. eEye has kindly not made its exploit public and waited for Microsoft to issue its patch before making the announcement.

From a post at Debian Planet: “I’ve done some digging around and the unofficial CD ISO images for Woody and Testing
are being mirrored by serveral Debian mirrors around the world. Attila Nagy provides
more details about his ISOs in this post on the debian-devel mailing list. Note that if
you’ve been waiting for the release of the official 2.2r3 ISO images, the 3-CD images
should be readily available from most official Debian CD mirrors listed here. Read more
for the full mirror list of debian-unofficial images.”

“In a move that gives the Windows server market a good shaking, the Samba development team has released Samba 2.2, a free Windows-compatible file and print server that offers enough functionality to be a Windows NT Server replacement for many organizations, especially in smaller stand-alone offices.”Read the review at ZDNet eWEEK.

From Slashdot: “Finally some good news on the patent font. A US district court
tossed out most of Rambus’ patent infingement claims against Infineon. The judge also
states that even if Infineon has infringed on the remaining patents, they didn’t do so
willfully.”

An Interactive Week story talks about how Linux will soon give “the giants in handheld computer software,” meaning Palm and Microsoft, some competition. The story mentions Sharp and Agenda Computing’s handheld projects.