ABC News has an often-reported story explaining how Linux companies plan to make money some day. “Linux software companies think they can master making a profit by selling
applications built from free, open-source parts. Three of the most prominent, Eazel,
Sun and Corel, have different strategies: one is going with support and services,
one is using free software to drive purchases of costly hardware, and the third
says, hey, time to pay for your application software.”

Reuters reports on the corporate presence at LinuxWorld. “Standing at his booth … Thursday, Jim
Graham, chief technology officer of CodeWeavers, pined
as he compared last year’s Linux World Conference and
Expo with the one this week.

‘There’s kind of a lack of a community,’ said the
executive … The lords of Linux are no longer Don Quixotes living in the
counterculture of the operating systems world. Fewer pony-tails and
beards, which proliferated at earlier conferences that promoted open
source, were in evidence this year.”

From PR Newswire: CompTIA, the Computing Technology
Industry Association today announced that its Linux+ certification program has
welcomed three more companies as cornerstone sponsors. CompTIA is bringing
major industry vendors and customers together to create a globally accepted
benchmark certification for Linux.
Course Technology, Intel Corporation and SuSE have announced their
participation in the development of the new Linux+ certification.

The humor site Segfault has the bad news: “In an announcement that rocked the computing industry yesterday, Snowfox’s roomie declared that
‘Debian is so f*cking stupid.’ Amazon.com was hit hardest … He
went on to say, ‘I can’t believe this crap,’ and ‘what the hell?’ Roomie is a known industry expert and a
key player in Linux reporting, hailed for prounouncing “Linux” without a long U vowel.”

From LinuxPR: The
industry’s first Linux-based integrated software solution for small businesses
has won Show Favorite honors for the System Integration catagory at this year’s
LinuxWorld Convention and Expo.

IBM’s Small Business Suite for Linux includes DB2 Universal Database,
WebSphere Application Server and Lotus Domino. This offering is bundled
together to deliver the tools necessary to help customers with messaging and
collaboration, productivity, Web site creation and design, and data management.
IBM also includes a fully integrated install program that allows customers and
business partners to deploy, quickly and easily, the key software featured in the
suite on both servers and desktops.

Inter@ctive Week reports on Intel’s decision to provide $24 million in support to the Open Source Development Lab, “in a clear break of the tacit Intel/Microsoft alliance.”

Slashdot readers discuss reports that Sun has released Grid 5.2, a distributed processing engine that runs on
Solaris, and now Linux. Here’s the press release.

ApacheWeek has several items, including an annoucement that Apache 1.3.17 was released Jan. 26. “This release addresses minor bugs found in the 1.3.14 release, fixes mod_rewrite, and adds some minor features. Versions 1.3.15 and 1.3.16 were never released.”

ZDNet reports on Transmeta’s plans to release “Mobile Linux,” a “quasi-distribution” and embedded Linux developers toolkit that Linus Torvalds and others have been working on. More from TechWeb.

Slashdotters discuss the news (here from a press release at Ximian.com) that Ximian has partnered with Hewlett-Packard to put the Ximian Gnome desktop on HP-UX.