CNET reports that Microsoft employees say outgoing e-mail from company accounts took as long
as four days to reach recipients last week.

Anonymous Reader writes “An interesting commentary on the state of the media and on the future of Linux.

Take the Long View“

From CNET: “The Red Hat Network is more than a subscription system for keeping Linux
computers updated–it’s also a potential tool for enabling computer makers such as IBM to
resell Red Hat’s services.”

Wired.com reports: “The Linux OS is still in its adolescence, with so much promise but still a little too gangly to be gracefully accepted in the bigger world. So it is at LinuxWorld, a friendly — if somewhat awkward — place.”

From Wired.com: “At New York’s LinuxWorld, you’re either in or out, and if you’re out, well, in the rest of the world, you’re probably in. Surprise of surprises, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds was temporarily out, which didn’t really mean he was in.”

linuxnews.pl writes “Last night I was playing a bit with Kylix. Unfortunately, because of my poor experience with Pascal and tools like RAD, the game was rather short. But I can say, that with this tool, even a beginner programmer can prepare something what he wants. Unfortunately some part of Kylix functionality uses WINE libraries, so maybe it isn’t exactly a “pure linux application”, but probably that’s what gives Kylix a Windows-like look’n’feel. More (including screenshots) on LinuxNews.pl“

Russ Foster writes “SlashTCO is pleased to announce that Richard Morrell and Lawrence Manning, two of the leading figures in the UK Linux movement, are joining the staff of SlashTCO Limited. Full coverage at SlashTCO.com“

Russ Foster writes “Inpharmatica, a UK based bioinformatics company, is currently running Europe’s largest commercial bioinformatics supercomputer – and it runs on Linux. Pat Leach, the IT Director at Inpharmatica, had come from a commercial IT background and perspective. The SlashTCO team visited Leach, and his colleague Stuart Moodie, at Inpharmatica’s West London HQ to find out more about the company’s high-end Linux deployment. Full coverage can be found at SlashTCO.com“

linuxnews.pl writes “Agenda Hendheld Linux PC is now available to order. Agenda VR3 Developer Edition with 16MB Flash memory and 66MHz CPU costs US$ 179.00. More on LinuxNews.pl“ (Ed. note: This edition is for Agenda Developer
Program members only. It is not
feature-complete and is intended specifically for
software development use.)

Justin Mecham of JabberCentral writes ““A rose is a rose, by any other name.” But is the same true for a Jabber client? I don’t think so.”

“To answer this question, we first have to decide what a Jabber client is. To many, it is a program with which to chat with friends, and join in group discussions. On one level, of course it is. The current cluster of available Jabber clients are focused pretty much on the initial competency (there’s a reason why I’m not using the phrase ‘core competency’) of Jabber: Instant Messaging (IM)….”

“Jabber is an architecture, a way of thinking, a set of protocols, just as much as it is an actual implementation in the form of a server and clients. And this architecture lends itself to much more than the
exchange of gossip between friends, or the hosting of WAMs (Wide Area Meetings 😉 in group chat. It can be injected easily into the virtual routes between systems and users, acting as “message plasma” to bind those entities taking part in conversations as equal partners, and to provide them with a space and time structure in which to engage in those conversations.”

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