From Business Wire: Bluepoint Linux Software Corp. announced that it has signed a
strategic alliance agreement with Guangdong Shijilong Holding Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Guangdong Telecom. The
agreement calls for Bluepoint to work with Shijilong to develop Internet Data Centers. Most of the Chinese companies have their Internet
servers hosted in IDCs operated by Telecom companies. Besides server hosting, IDCs also provides data space and other value added services.

From CNet: “French computer maker Bull has invested in Linux server maker Penguin Computing, and the companies
agreed to tackle the European Linux market together.
Under the agreement , Bull will sell Penguin Computing servers packaged with its own services in Europe, the companies said.
The alliance elevates the Linux prospects of two companies striving to deal with
larger or better-known competitors. San Francisco-based Penguin Computing
plays second fiddle to Linux specialist VA Linux Systems, and Penguin
Computing and Bull both face competition from big-name companies such as
IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer and Dell Computer.” (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

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The Associated Press reports: “As more individuals build their own Web sites, some privacy advocates now question requirements that site owners disclose their personal contact information.
Names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers for more than 24 million domain names are stored in
databases called Whois. The information is available to anyone with an Internet connection.”

From Internet Wire:
Advanced Systems
Concepts, Inc., a developer of strategic system software solutions that
enhance Windows 2000/NT, UNIX and OpenVMS systems, has announced the
availability of ActiveBatch version 3. ActiveBatch is an affordable Enterprise Job
Scheduling and Management system, which was designed for Windows 2000/NT
and supports the reliable execution of jobs and programs on multiple operating systems including various Unix
platforms as well as OpenVMS. The product can be downloaded from the Advanced Systems Concepts web site
at www.advsyscon.com.

Internet Wire has this press release: Merilus Technologies has introduced the first firewall on a PCI Card. FireCard is the
first use of the Transmeta Crusoe Microprocessor in an embedded application.
FireCard’s innovative design transforms any PC into a secure Internet computer
capable of withstanding digital security threats.

From the humor site Segfault: “After nearly 32 months of waiting, Netscape Communications has
released version 6 of its Netscape web browser. The release confirms earlier reports that Netscape 6,
does indeed, suck.”

From Internet Wire: Mailshell.com,
the free guide to thousands of free email/web services along with free
protection from junk email and spam, today unveiled the world’s first free,
single, simple, spam-free email address for life. Internet users can now simply type nojunk@mailshell.com in lieu of
their real email address whenever they want to submit or request information from any web site, thereby
eliminating the fear of unleashing waves of junk email in return.

Users can currently access this feature through Mailshell’s proxy server, and the company plans to make the
feature widely available through open-source code.

From LinuxPR: After 5 years of internal use, Turner
Consulting Group has open sourced its Web application server
software Steelblue, aCold Fusion-like language that many users have stated
is easier to use than PHP.
SteelBlue provides a true extension of HTML, automatic security enforcement
and special abilities granted to user groups. In addition, HTML generation, data
checking and resulting database interaction may be combined in a single
SteelBlue script and more. The source is available at www.steelblue.com.

OReillynet.com features Ian Clarke, founder of the peer-to-peer file trading service Freenet. “Freenet is much more than an anonymity
system: Clarke has built into it the seeds of a radically new
Internet.”

Wired.com reports that bankrupt Scour Inc. says it will close its file-sharing exchange by Thursday as it prepares to sell its assets to the highest bidder. More from CNet.