IDG News Service reports that Compaq has released enhanced products and new services
for businesses that use Unix servers.

“Enhancements to Tru64 Unix and TruCluster Server will include
extended clustering and performance powers, along with Internet and
management capabilities.”

From IDG News Service: “The Italian state administration is excessively
dependent on Microsoft’s software and the country
could achieve significant budget savings if it switched
to open source software, according to an open letter
which a group of information technology professionals
is preparing to deliver to Public Administration
Minister Franco Bassanini.”

Here’s a quote from the story at eWeek: “”The view that all open-source software is vulnerable and that the open-source movement can only benefit by paying more attention to security is incorrect.” Huh? Read more, it might make sense.

Business Wire reports,
today, SuSE Linux, the
international technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source operating system software, announced the general
availability of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390. SuSE’s Linux distribution for the mainframe allows enterprise customers
to scale Linux from PC clients to host systems.

Months after launching a radio show for “computer
dummies” talk radio personality Chris Pirillo has
taken his audio ramblings online, reports Internet Wire.

A bugfix release of kpackage is avaiable, reports Linux Today. It fixes a segmentation fault when choosing “file list” and when installing
or uninstalling a package.

Biotech startups the wave of the future? Electronic
communications networks pushing out the Nasdaq?
Red Herring’s editors come through with the key
influences, from computing to venture capital, that
will shape 2001.

This Salon article responds to a number of comments concerning a speculative piece wondering whether “free-software hackers” could have been involved in cracking Microsoft’s internal network.

Bloomberg on USA Today: Microsoft and three other companies
were sued by a Mexican firm, which claimed it was wrongfully targeted in a
1998 raid aimed at finding pirated software products.

The Duke of URL reviews Pogo Linux’s AMD Thunderbird Gigahertz system, dubbed Altura.