posted 04 July 2000 02:22 PM               

Wednesday, June 14, 2000

THE LATEST IN LINUX FROM INFOWORLD:

* Putting IA-64 Linux to the test
* IBM further boosts Linux
* eBuilder takes one great step for e-commerce on Linux

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PUTTING IA-64 LINUX TO THE TEST

Posted at Jun 13, 2000 07:25 AM Pacific

IN THE LATEST industry embrace of open-source advocates, Hewlett-Packard and Intel on Tuesday released a free IA-64 developers kit that allows the Linux community to develop, test, debug, and run IA-64 applications for Intel's upcoming Itanium processor-based servers and workstations.

The Itanium-based systems will support Linux and other operating systems, according to Mike Balma, director of marketing for HP's open-source and Linux operations.

For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/06/13/000613hnlinuxtest.xml?0614weli

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IBM FURTHER BOOSTS LINUX

Posted at Jun 12, 2000 10:55 AM Pacific

A GREATER NUMBER of IBM's servers, laptops, and desktops will now come with the Linux operating system, company officials said Monday.

"There appears to be enormous demand in the marketplace [for Linux]," said Buell Duncan, general manager of IBM global business partners. "It comes back to e-business. As e-business is taking off, much of the application development is being done on Linux. We want to be there early and stronger than anyone else."

For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/06/12/000612hnibmlinux.xml?0614weli

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EBUILDER TAKES ONE GREAT STEP FOR E-COMMERCE ON LINUX

Posted at June 9, 2000 01:01 PM Pacific

DESPITE THE GREAT inroads Linux has made toward enterprise deployment, leveraging business resources on Linux in a full-blown, scalable e-commerce solution typically has required a slew of third-party tools or custom-developed applications. Although Linux is fast becoming a stable back-end workhorse, it is still developing its enterprise-worthy ecommerce chops.

Because of limited e-commerce software, mediocre technical support, and nongraphical user tools, businesses have shied away from adapting Linux as a viable, enterprise-worthy e-commerce deployment platform on a large scale.

For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/mt/xml/00/06/12/000612mtopen.xml?0614weli

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Taxing and regulating Internet telephony is not only bad for consumers, it stifles competitiveness and endangers the continued development of a vital and growing industry."

--Bruce Crair, president and COO of eVoice.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/06/09/000609hntax.xml

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