Anonymous Reader writes “Geeknews.org has an opinion piece up that asks the question: Is Microsoft a big basketcase? The opinion piece is inspired by the recent DNS problems faced by MS.”

ZDNET reports that IBM has ‘toppled’ former notebook dominator Toshiba, to gain the number one spot for laptop manufacturers.

An article at Infoworld says that, “despite the severity of the DDoS attacks that crippled Yahoo.com, eBay, and
Amazon.com at different times from Feb. 6 to Feb. 14, 2000, many companies still
are not devoting the necessary funds to the problem, analysts said, and some users
still have a lackadaisical attitude toward security.”

A free database “of the monopolies on programming problems, which the European Patent Office has granted against the letter and spirit of the existing
laws, and about which it is unsufficiently informing the public, delivering only chunks of graphical data hidden behind input masks. The FFII software
patent workgroup is trying to single out the software patents, make them better accessible and show their effects on software development.”

LinuxPlanet takes a good look at Win4Lin, including installation notes and opinions.

Fairfax IT reports that supercomputer maker Cray announced plans to offer an Alpha cluster combining problemsolving speed with powerful
technical data center features, price performance and the Linux operating system.

Trevor Warren writes “Intrusion Detection Systems for your network: Part I: Last week, FreeOS.com carried some news clips on security intrusions in the Open Source world. For those of you, whose business requires you to be connected to the Internet, we hope this series will help you field yourself against the imminent dangers that you will have to face when you decide to open up your business to the anarchy of the Internet.”

Bloomberg: “For server computers, particularly those that power Web sites, little doubt exists that Linux has
arrived. In 2000, unit shipments of Linux on servers grew an estimated 24 percent from 1999,
making it the fastest-growing server operating system, according to the market research firm IDC.
The rate beat Microsoft’s Windows NT and Windows 2000, which grew 20 percent.” Nevertheless, Gartner analysts are still not on the bandwagon.

CNET reports: “Under the deal, announced Monday, Red
Hat will build into its
future versions of Linux
Eazel’s Nautilus software
package, a recreation of
the Netscape vision of
having an Internet
browser replace the
desktop interface tasks
ordinarily handled by the
operating system.”

Slashdot posted a link to this article at CNBC which considers the possibility of AMD buying out ‘highflying, cash-burning’ Transmeta. Not very likely, CNBC says.