AsiaTechBiz reports that Third Ware Co., Ltd. and NEC Software
Hokkaido Ltd. exhibited a Linux-based server, Flashoot-Mail, recnetly. The server can handle
100,000 mail sends per hour. They
will begin shipping the server in
March 2001.

LinuxDevices.com interviews Karim Yaghmour, author of the Linux Trace Toolkit, who recently started a new project to develop an Adaptive
Domain Environment for Operating Systems (Adeos). “The
purpose of Adeos is to provide a flexible environment for
sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems,
or among multiple instances of a single OS.”

From PR Newswire: PlaceLinks, Inc., a leading
provider of advertising content management and promotional systems, today
announced that it’s adding another newspaper to its client roster. The Boston
Herald is launching a new marketplace on their Web site http://www.bostonherald.com
using PlaceLinks’ advertising and promotions directory system.
Based on XML and Linux technology and
operating on a distributed server network, the PlaceLinks system also allows
advertising content to be syndicated to other online directories and linked to
m-commerce applications.

TheStreet.com reports on the aftermath of Tuesday’s earnings announcement by VA Linux (parent company of NewsForge). “Credit Suisse First Boston cut its rating on VA Linux to hold from
buy Wednesday, a day after the software and services company announced earnings that fell
short of Wall Street’s estimates … Lehman Brothers analyst George Elling also lowered his 2001 earnings-per-share estimate
while reiterating his market-perform rating and keeping the price target at $15.”

eWeek (via its sister site, ZDNet UK) reports that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin was “misunderstood” when he called Open Source software bad for innovation. Allchin was apparently referring instead just to the GNU General Public License. Open Source people everywhere must feel much better now.

An anonymous reader tells us about this story: “It doesn’t matter that Bertelsmann is in the process of crippling the file trading software with several measures including file encryption and stripping the ability to burn CD’s. It doesn’t matter that Bertelsmann plans to charge for the Napster service this summer and has offered to pay licensing fees to the other labels including the independents. This is now an internal, not an external, matter for the music industry. Napster the software as we know it will soon die, but its spirit will grow when that happens.”
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/napsterbri be.html. For more on the proposal, see this IDG News Service story.

carmie writes: “This editorial at Binary Freedom is a much-needed reminder that manners are still important. In the end we’re not just techies, we’re human beings too.”

Seattle P-I.com: “Last night at Seattle club I-Spy, hundreds of techies gathered yet again to drink, eat and swap business cards. Only this time, many of the dot-commers had become dot-gonners.”

“Ericsson is teaming up with Paramount Pictures to feature a range of
rugged mobile phones in the highly anticipated movie version of the
computer video game Tomb Raider, where Angelina Jolie will play
action figure Croft.” From ZDNET.co.uk.

From ZDNET.co.uk: “In a bid to establish itself as an e-business software vendor,
Hewlett-Packard last week rolled a number of its applications into
two software suites, Netaction and OpenView. HP said it will focus on
providing cross-platform automated services that reduce the amount
of human interaction needed in e-business tasks.”