Upside names its Upside Elite 100, a group of people who “emerged victorious after taking a gamble
on the technology industry in 2000.” From the Linus profile: “What started as an open
source project for Torvald’s throng of devotees has turned into a
centrifuge around which the tech-business world revolves. The Linux
wizard continues to develop his brainchild, and the system’s popularity
continues to skyrocket.”

From PR Newswire: Indrema Entertainment Systems, creator of the first open source game
console and home entertainment platform, and Metro Link, a leader in graphical display software for high performance
embedded Linux systems, have agreed to collaborate on the development of key open source technologies behind the
Indrema Entertainment System. Indrema also announced the Indrema Developer Network, according to a press release at LWN.net.

From LinuxPR: Mission Critical
Linux, a Linux services and products company, has
announced that Robert Tumanic will join the organization as chief operating
officer. Tumanic will replace Steve Ofsthun, who will take the new
position of senior vice president of engineering.

Seul.org has the report: “Brian Proffitt published a call for Linux advocacy in schools on LinuxPlanet recently. In it he made a
number of good points, not least of which is that local LUGs can be very influential in getting Linux into the schools by offering
to help any school interested in trying Linux. Read the article, then talk to your local user group about how you can do this!”

The Linux Seminar is intended to be a forum for IT managers and specialists
to gather information, and to discuss Linux-related issues, in order to
determine a strategy for Linux utilization in Vietnam. More information is in the press release at LinuxPR.

LinuxPlanet has a featureon GNOME, how to get it, and a “configuration trick that makes GNOME’s panels a little less obtrusive,
provides a handy way to save desktop space, and unclutters your panels of
all those app icons so you can save space for pagers and task lists.”

ActiveState, a provider of Internet programming software and
services, won the best programming tool award for ActivePerl 5.6 in the
annual WebTechniques Web Tools Award. ActivePerl is ActiveState’s free
binary distribution of Perl. WebTechniques’ readers were most impressed
with ActivePerl’s ability to develop within an ASP environment and still have
access to what made Perl popular in the first place: pattern matching and
regular expressions, the Perl built-in functions, and a vast library of free or
low-cost Perl modules to use in your code. The press release is from LinuxPR.

SF Gate features Transmeta as the company prepares for its IPO: “Now, 10 months later, Transmeta is going public,
and it’s happening again: Not since Palm went
public in March has an IPO attracted more advance
coverage.” A ZD Net column reviews the finances of the chip maker.

From eWeek: “A handful of Federal government agencies have challenged major Linux vendors to step up their efforts to promote the use of open-source software for government accounts.”

From LinuxPR: JBSi (Jones Business Systems, Incorporated) and Century Software, Inc.
announced that JBSi has become a nationwide distributor of Century’s
TinyTERM line of terminal emulation products.

Century Software’s TinyTERM suite of host-connectivity products delivers
scalable, convenient access to UNIX and Linux systems through the power
of Internet technology. TinyTERM provides access to legacy data and
applications through a Web-browser interface.