AsiaBizTech reports that Linux won Nikkei’s top spot as the top Japanese business product for the second year running. Windows 2000 was a distant third, following rewritable CD drives.

LinuxWorld.com interviews Ximian CEO and co-founder Nat Friedman. Among the pressing questions answered: why the name change from Helix Code?

From Slashdot: “An anonymous reader wrote in to tell us that “The latest Free Software Foundation take on the newly released APSL v1.2
“In January 2001, Apple released another updated version, 1.2, of the APSL, but it too remains unacceptable. It still has the requirement that any “deployed” modified version must be published. So it is still not a free software license.” The dance continues.””

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LWN.net posts a email apparently from SourceForge, saying, “VA’s commitment to SourceForge has never been stronger.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge, too.)

Bloomberg (on CNet) reports that Microsoft may be rethinking its investment in rival office software company Corel after discovering that the purchase may somehow be called monopolistic by the U.S. Justice Department.

ZD’s Interative Week reports on HP teaming with Inktomi to “building caching and media streaming servers out of it existing, Intel-based Netserver hardware.”

TheStandard comments on Microsoft’s latest antitrust difficulties. “Here’s a great idea for a niche magazine: Microsoft Antitrust
Weekly. Not one but three MS legal battles got new angles this
week, so there’d be plenty of fodder for the first issue.

First, Microsoft settled a lawsuit with Bristol Technologies.
Coverage tended to be brief, possibly because both companies
kept their lips zipped. (The Register calls the companies’ joint
press release ‘tersely uninformative.’) The Hartford Courant
was on top of the home-state story, leading with the
sentence, ‘This time, Goliath settled.’ ”

LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will
offer its next weekend system administration bootcamp on March
3-4, 2001 in San Francisco bay area (south bay). This
workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals
and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration
areas.

In addition to carefully designed lecture material delivered by
experienced Linux professionals, there is a heavy emphasis on
hands-on learning. The training starts two weeks before the actu-
al class, with access to an online Linux server, where students
complete few challenging pre-class activities. Attendees get a
powerful Linux laptop on their arrival, along with other class
materials. They load Linux on their laptop during the class, and
use it for all the class activities and assignments. At the end
of the class they take this laptop with them to further enhance
their Linux expertise. Absolute beginners with no UNIX experience
can first come to the popular “Linux for Beginners” class and
subsequently join the system administration bootcamp.

Rapid growth of Linux into corporate and government IT environments is fueling the need for Linux certified professionals. CIOs and managers are eager to have Linux experts in their organizations. A certification provides a tangible mechanism for their hiring evaluation, as well as a means to market the prowess of organizations.

“As an independent IT consultant I am always on my toes to learn
new technologies, without much free time to devote to classes.
The LinuxCertified.com bootcamp was a perfect way for me to jump-
start my Linux knowledge. I can now use Linux as a valuable
tool in my career,” said Taylor Cottam, an independent consultant
who joined one of the LinuxCertified.com weekend bootcamps.

This weekend bootcamp is specially designed to prepare the at-
tendees for the objectives of Level 1 certification exams offered
by Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The workshop also meets
the objectives of the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam and
Sair Linux & GNU certification (LCA).

Our attendees build a strong sense of community with our instructors,
fellow students, and our network of recruiters and companies
looking for Linux consultants.

About LinuxCertified.com

The mission of LinuxCertified.com is to bring Linux to mainstream
IT usage. We firmly believe that Linux has an enormous potential,
once it crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream
users. Our goal is to help this transition by providing:

– Linux trained and certified professionals

– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather
than early adopters.

Contact:

info@linuxcertified.com

http://www.linuxcertified.com/

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Linux Professionals Institute and the LPI logo are trademarks of the Linux Professional Institute, Inc.

RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.

LinuxCertified.com is an independent entity from organizations providing Linux certification exams, and they do not sponsor our classes.

All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Media Contact:

info@linuxcertified.com

http://www.linuxcertified.com/

PlanetIT.com has an article about Corel’s new focus. “Corel is walking away from a longtime battle against
Microsoft in the word processing market, and running toward open
spaces that have no clear landowners.”