Infoworld: Official for Unisys on Tuesday fired a shot across the bow of the Unix community with its announcement that Microsoft is aggressively developing Windows solutions for the Unisys ES-7000 server with the intent to push the Unix operating platform out of the data center.

MSNBC.com tells us: “Now you see it, now you don’t. That’s what happens when an
image is closed in Adobe Photoshop 6 running on a
Windows-based system. When the image is closed, Windows
hangs, and the image vanishes if additional images are open in
Full Screen or Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar.”

Can I get an amen? “If you can’t use the future tense without babbling on about “going forward,” or you think
the “global leader” you work for makes “end-to-end solutions” based on “a scalable, robust,
object-oriented architecture that fully leverages XML (gag)” and not products, you may be fluent in
techno-speak.” From GlobeTechnology.com.

AsiaBizTech reports: Red Hat KK is exhibiting a new software package
called “Do Office 1.2J” that combines the Linux operating system and office
software compatible with Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite.

Korea-based Hancom Linux Inc. and its affiliate in Japan jointly developed the
office software. The version of Linux used in the package is “Vine Linux 2.1CR.”

“As users, we choose specific applications because their features suit our purposes. As we become more familiar with a program,
we want more features added to it, and of course we want it to run faster and smoother. Developers want to serve the needs of
end-users, but increasing the internal complexity of an application is not necessarily a good thing, and programmers and users alike
recognize the undesirability of feature creep and code bloat.” From O’Reilly’s OnLamp.com.

LinuxWeeklyNews posted this note about the release of Acorn 0.3: “Acorn is the second in a series of games created as part of the
WorldForge bootstrapping endeavour, aimed at creating an engine for
massively multiplayer online games. The previous demo featured skeletons
moving across crude maps, Acorn builds on this by incorporating the
following features…”

At Wanadoo, you can download a PDF of this cool diagram of Unix history.

At PlanetIT, they’ve interviewed Micheal Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat. “In this exclusive question-and-answer
session with Red Hat CTO Michael
Tiemann, Planet IT senior editor Dave
Johnson discusses Tiemann’s vision of
how Linux is disrupting the established
order in today’s software industry.”

Carlie writes “Linuxiso has posted a review of the book ‘Integrate Linux Solutions Into Your Windows Network’. “

LinuxGram has the full story about what’s going on at SuSE.