Looking for a cheap Linux server? LWN.net has posted the latest press release from IBM, touting what that company calls “the industry’s first Linux-based integrated software solution for small businesses.” The server package includes IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application server, and Lotus Domino, sporting a suggested retail price of $499.

From a press release at LWN.net: Halcyon Software, Inc.
(http://www.halcyonsoft.com) announced today that it is making
its award-winning product, Instant ASP, available for
free to users of Intel-based Linux systems. iASP is a Java
implementation of the industry-standard Microsoft
Active Server Page (ASP) framework, and will allow businesses and
individuals an extremely

Interested in European patent law? Europa.eu.int has posted the study, “The Economic Impact of Patentability of Computer Programs,” which the European Commission will use later this year during a debate on whether to expand the European Union’s software patent laws.

Reuters reports that the chip maker and Linus employer has raised the projected price range of its planned
initial public offering to $16 to $18 per share from $11 to $13 a share. The new price could bring Transmeta $204 million in proceeds, up from the previous price of $144 million. Wired.com also previews the IPO.

The KDE Team at KDE.org needs your help with writing documentation for all of the great applications in KDE!
This is your opportunity to help KDE become useful to the users of KDE applications at any level.
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Compiling the Linux kernel could either be the coolest thing you’ve done
under Linux or the most frustrating. But it is also something any serious
Linux user cannot avoid. Newer kernels support the latest hardware. Bugs
will have been fixed and performance enhanced. From FreeOS.com.

From Linux.com: “During August 2000, I interviewed Cesar Miquel, Keith Clayton and Bruce Tenison by e-mail.
These interviews, obtained for the French magazine Linux Pratique, were supposed to be
background for an article on using the Rio500. For various reasons (including the installation of
dozens of Sun boxes in North England), publication didn’t occur. Cesar, Keith and Bruce are
programmers on the Rio500/Linux project.”

Oracle today rubbished rumours that its flamboyant founder Larry Ellison
was flying the coop.

The speculation that CEO Ellison and CFO Jeff Henley were leaving
apparently started hours before the software giant’s doors opened for
business at its California HQ this morning.

It helped drag Oracle’s share price down almost six dollars from its
opening price to just over $26. From The Register.

At a starting price of $970, IBM’s eServer x200 comes
with an Intel Celeron 667 MHz microprocessor but can
be equipped with a Pentium III. The x200 comes with
IBM’s Netfinity Director, which allows customers to
remotely manage and deploy server configurations for
important applications. It also comes with hard disk
predictive-failure analysis, a feature that allows the server
to monitor hard-disk performance and alert about
possible failures. From NetworkWorldFusion.

LinuxPR announces the industry’s first high-speed Internet Protocol
(IP) router reference design based completely on off-the-shelf network
processing hardware and open-source Linux-based software.