TheStreet.com reports that Hewlett-Packard has introduced a series of new printers that offer users the
ability to access, manage and print information from the Internet. The printers will support Linux.

LinuxWorld.com has this story: “If you develop Java on Linux, there is a good chance that you use WebLogic. Discover the new
features in version 6.0 and find tips on installing, configuring and deploying that widely used server.”

The Australia version of LinuxToday reports that Red Hat is losing market share to SuSE. “A report released by PCdata, a company which reports on the popularity of different
pieces of software and hardware, showed that Suse Inc, primarily a European-based
distributor, has been making great inroads into the US GNU/Linux market. While Suse has
had a presence in the US marketplace for some time, it is only recently that it has been
seen to have such a large market influence.”

The Register has a story about USB ADSL modem maker Alcatel shipping a Linux driver.
“However, the company seems to have misunderstood just what the phrase ‘open
source’ actually means.

Alcatel’s driver allows Linux fans to use the company’s USB-based SpeedTouch
ADSL modem. In the UK, BT Ignite bundles that modem with the home ADSL
offering it sells through a variety of telcos, including BT’s own broadband operation,
BT Openworld.”

CNet reports that Mac OS X, which will be released Saturday, will not support
CD-rewritable, DVD or DVD-recording drives.

From LinuxPR: Lutris
Technologies Inc., a leading provider of application server technology for wired
and wireless development and deployment, today announced new targeted
wireless consulting services, new heterogeneous wireless client platform
support, and new enterprise hardware certifications for the Lutris Enhydra
Java/XML application server. With these consulting, training and product
offerings, Lutris customers and ISV partners enjoy a clear advantage in wireless
application development. Lutris continues to deliver on the promise of Enhydra:
an open platform that allows one application to easily talk to any device over any
protocol.

Newsbytes has a feature on Freenet: “Freenet has an offshoot, Espra.net, that is intended to function like a more secure Napster. But in
[founder Ian[ Clarke’s mind, Freenet stands for much more than just swapping music. It’s more than just
swapping the documents, films and images that also can be exchanged over the online platform. If
anything, Freenet is the online manifestation of Clarke’s deeply libertarian political viewpoint.”

From LinuxPR: Nemein Solutions and Hong Kong Linux
Center have formed partnership to provide services & support for HKLC’s
Nadmin Content Management System.

Nadmin is an user-friendly interface to the Open Source Midgard Content
Management Engine. Midgard provides organizations with cost-effective ways
of creating and maintaining their site in a controllable distributed environment.

From LinuxPR: Today Richard M. Stallman, founder and
president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), addressed the members of the
Brazilian Congress on the issues of free software, the ethics of copyright, and the
dangers of software patents. Stallman stressed both the ethical and practical
importance of free software, which grants other developers the freedom to
examine and improve the software. He also discussed issues of copyright and
patents, and how they should be interpreted in terms of freedom for software
users and programmers.

The meeting is Wednesday, March 21, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at IBM Headquarters Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street. Check in at lobby for badge and room number.Credibility is a hard thing to come by. And when you have it, you don’t
risk it recklessly. Microsoft has had great difficulty placing its
operating systems into the data centers of the Fortune 100 companies.
IBM has the trust of the Fortune 100. And the operating system IBM now
runs across nearly its whole product line is Linux.

In December, IBM CEO Lou Gerstner announced a $1 billion investment in
its
Linux initiative. At the recent LinuxWorld Expo, IBM President and
COO Sam Palmisano called 2001 “the year Linux grows up in the
enterprise.”

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4111945.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4656230-0.html

Please join us for a talk with Len Santalucia, IBM Senior Consulting
Sales
Specialist and Certified Professional. Find out why IBM is staking its
reputation on the Linux operating system, and IBM’s plans for Linux on
the
zSeries and System/390 Mainframe servers, and across the IBM product
line.

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/

About IBM

IBM, is a vast organization, whose accomplishments are too many to
mention
here. It not only brings credibility to Linux in the most cautious
companies, it has given the world the venerated System 360/370/390
Mainframe architectures, the RS6000 servers, and the Structured Query
Language (SQL) now in wide use everywhere. On Wall Street, IBM puts
the
blue in blue chip companies. http://www.ibm.com

IBM is a valued NYLUG sponsor, providing us with many forms of support,
but most importantly, our meeting facilities at 590 Madison Avenue,
where it has maintained offices since 1938.

Stammtisch:
And then after the meeting… Join us around 8:15pm or so at the
Typhoon
Brewery & Restaurant located at 22 East 54th Street between Madison and
5th Aves. Note – We don’t find out until the day of the meeting if we
have
the back room.

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