EE Times reports that “Aldec Inc., a longtime provider of
FPGA design tools, will make its first foray into the ASIC
market this week with Riviera, a Linux-based
mixed-language simulator. Riviera simulates VHDL, Verilog
and EDIF and comes with an HDL editor and source-level
debugger.”

A press release is at LWN.net: REDSonic, Inc., a provider of real-time and embedded Linux solutions, today
announced the release of RED-Probe, a real-time system event viewer and
monitoring tool for REDICE-Linux.

RED-Probe is a graphical, real-time, monitoring and profiling tool and an
integral component of the REDICE-Linux development system.

ZD Net reports: Linux is still fighting its way into e-marketplaces, both as a platform and as a commodity. But at Comdex this week, software vendor Exterprise and marketing startup PartnerAxis will show off a Linux-based e-marketplace for Linux vendors and users.

Reuters reports that the world’s first cybercrime treaty is being hastily redrafted after Internet lobby groups assailed it as
a threat to human rights that could have “a chilling effect on the free flow of information and ideas.” The Council of Europe plans to issue a
new draft late this week to clarify passages that led to what it sees as “serious misunderstandings.” Slashdot readers discuss the new draft.

From LinuxPR: NuSphere, provider of NuSphere MySQL,
apackaged software product for the open source database marketplace, has
announced the addition of Paul DuBois to the NuSphere team. DuBois will work closely with
development to ensure that NuSphere code contributions, such as the upcoming project
Gemini, are presented to MySQL end users in an effective and compelling fashion.

EE Times previews the Linux Business Expo that’s part of Comdex Fall 2000, featuring recent announcements by IBM, SuSE, and Red Hat.

From LinuxPR: Epitera is carving out a brand new niche
in the Linux marketplace-mainstream consumer and corporate PC users. The
Israel-based company announced the launch of a new, easy-to-use
Linux desktop environment targeted at the PC and Internet appliance user.
The new desktop environment will include a complete set of pre-installed
applications, and it features automatic application downloads and updates as well
as remote-access customer support. The most visible example of the desktop’s
user-friendly approach is a genie named
Kandu, which the company says will provide the user with more intuitive and
proactive support than the assistant found on other operating systems.

The ZooLib Cross-Platform Application Framework has been released under the MIT License. You can read about in at
this article at
BeNews.ZooLib allows one to write a single set of C++ sources and compile to native executables for Mac OS, Windows, BeOS, and Posix flavors with X11 (such as Linux).– Submitted by Michael D. Crawford

ZD Net reports on Corel’s pitch at Comdex: The company says its “refocusing” its Linux plans after an investment deal with Microsoft. But the company is still cranking out Linux products, including WordPerfect Office and Corel Draw, according to CEO Derek Burney.

Teamware Group, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited,
announced that a 90-day evaluation version of Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux, a
ready-to-run groupware product with a customizable user interface and
state-of-the-art communications features, is available on the new release of
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 from MandrakeSoft, one of the most powerful and
easy-to-use operating systems with a choice of several powerful,
pre-configured graphic interfaces (notably the leaders KDE and GNOME), as
well as more than 2,300 applications including Netscape Communicator, the
StarOffice suite, and the Apache Web server. The
press release is at LinuxPR.