An SDTimes columnist reviews Zope, and seems to like it a bit: “SD Times is written for software development managers, not for
hackers, and we columnists try to maintain a professional tone about
technologies and products, but there’s no accurate way to talk about
Zope without liberal use of exclamation marks and hyperbole. Zope is
sick insane!!!!! It’s the greatest thing since Bind!!!!! It’s the finest
language innovation since Guido van Rossum decided to use indenting
for scoping!!! And so forth.”

At Linux International, you can submit your own Linux success story or case study, where they’ll poke it, prod it, and maybe even publish it. Oh, and then you can go post your announcement on Slashdot.

From ZDNET: “A low-cost Internet device on display at LinuxWorld a week ago is
offering to drive the cost of accessing the Internet below $200. And
the chief backer of the company behind the device, Larry Ellison, is one
of the richest men in the world.”

LinuxPlanet has posted this clever essay by Michael Hall: “”Listen, pig-eyes,” I said, “KDE might have a slight lead in the polish game, though I’d be hard pressed to point to how at this point; but your
self-righteous crap about some IRC-based overzealousness from years ago is too much. Take your toy interface and creep back to your shack in the
woods.”

PRNewswire: “Under the
terms of the new agreement, the SCO OpenServer product line will be included
as part of the proposed SCO Server Software Division acquisition, giving
Caldera complete ownership of SCO’s operating system products.”

From FreeOS.com: “Snort is a versatile, lightweight and very useful intrusion detection system. In this
article we will look at Snort as a backup Intrusion Detection System for your
enterprise network and see whether it can really scale up to the requirements of
your enterprise networks.”

From Nandotimes: “In a strategy aimed at building goodwill and new customers, Microsoft Corp. is offering workshops in
14 U.S. cities to teach minority business owners about technology.
But some are are criticizing the timing of the new program, which comes shortly after Microsoft was hit was a class-action lawsuit alleging
discrimination.”

Wired.com: “More than 100 million new Internet users are expected to come online in Asia by 2004, representing 27 percent of all users worldwide. But while Hong Kong is well on its way, places like Viet Nam lag behind.”

Wired.com: “Forget script kiddies and denial-of-service attacks. The new cyberthreat, according to the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is Fidel Castro.”

From SiliconValley.com: “Perhaps not surprisingly, Ballmer calls Linux — which rose to prominence as an alternative to Microsoft’s overwhelmingly dominant
Windows operating system — ‘crummy.’ Yet he grudgingly admits the open-source platform has emerged as a major competitor in
some market niches, like multi-site Web hosting.

‘In some markets,’ Ballmer says in the ultimate back-handed compliment, ‘crummy has been OK.’ “