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Linux2order.com launches Priority Download

Author: JT Smith

Linux2order.com,
the Web-based
company that offers
the Internet’s largest selection of the most current Linux applications and
utilities, has launched Priority Download, designed to provide users with
access to all of its software, at download speeds up to 110Kbps, reports Internet Wire.

EFI announces Fiery X3 server

Author: JT Smith

The Linux-based Fiery X3 Pi5500 drives the Di550
and Di450 at their full-rated speeds for greater overall throughput. It also includes
NetWise(TM) 2, EFI’s networking architecture, to help to accelerate setup and ensure
seamless connectivity, from Business Wire on NewsAlert.

Lutris Technologies and NECSoft distribute Lutris Enhydra

Author: JT Smith

Lutris Technologies Inc., an Open Source enterprise software and services company, today announced an
agreement with NECSoft Ltd., a division of NEC Inc, to distribute Lutris Enhydra, the first commercially-supported Open
Source Application Server available to the Japanese and Asian markets.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif./TOKYO – October 31, 2000 – Lutris Technologies Inc., an Open Source enterprise software and services company, today announced an agreement with NECSoft Ltd., a division of NEC Inc, to distribute Lutris Enhydra, the first commercially-supported Open Source Application Server available to the Japanese and Asian markets. The companies will partner to deliver Lutris Enhydra as well as provide full support and training to its users as they create and deploy business applications to the desktop as well as any wireless devices.

Under the terms of the agreement, NECSoft has become an official distributor of Lutris Enhydra, the commercially supported Java™/ XML Open Source application server, within Japan. The relationship represents an important step in broadening Enhydra’s acceptance and use by Japanese developers and corporations, and creates a solid base from which additional penetration of the Asian market will take place. Additionally, NEC’s support of Lutris Enhydra and investment in Lutris is further validation of the role Open Source software will play in developing and deploying next-generation Internet applications, including those accessed by wireless devices.

“The agreement between NEC and Lutris to deliver Enhydra to these markets comes as a result of the ongoing desire of international IT departments to leverage Open Source software to gain a competitive advantage,†said Yancy Lind, president and CEO, Lutris Technologies. “The creation of Enhydra was a collaborative effort put forth by a worldwide community of talented developers, many of whom are based in the Pacific Rim. NEC’s distribution capabilities, support functions and solid reputation for top-notch service means companies in this area can quickly create and deliver innovative new business applications.â€

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In addition to distributing Lutris Enhydra in Japan, NEC will provide frontline customer support to companies building and deploying Enhydra applications, and will offer local training and certification programs. All of NEC’s efforts are fully supported by Lutris Technologies’ customer services and consulting divisions, including all required back-line support. Lutris Enhydra is currently available in an English language version, and NEC and Lutris are jointly developing a localized product including documentation and training programs. The companies anticipate that the Japanese language version will be available in the second quarter of 2001. The formal reseller agreement between Lutris and NEC follows participation by NEC in Lutris’ most recent round of funding announced in August 2000.

“NEC has long been an innovator in the information technology industry, and we view our relationship with Lutris as a natural progression in our support of new technologies as well as a competitive advantage,†said Takaaki Seki, president of NECSoft. “The unique architecture of the Enhydra application server, and its inherent capability to deliver content to all manner of devices, both wired and wireless, makes it a perfect fit for Japan’s exploding use of mobile devices. Japan has a long history of quickly adopting Open Source technologies, and we anticipate Lutris Enhydra to lead Internet development in this market. â€

About NEC

NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) (FTSE: 6701q.l) is a leading provider of Internet solutions, dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its customers in the key computer, network and electron device fields through its three market-focused in-house companies: NEC Solutions, NEC Networks and NEC Electron Devices. NEC Corporation, with its in-house companies, employs more than 150,000 people worldwide and saw net sales of 4,991 billion Yen (approx. US$48 billion) in fiscal year 1999-2000. For further information, please visit the NEC home page at: link
About Lutris Technologies
Lutris Technologies, a leading Open Source enterprise software and services company, is the original developer and primary sponsor of Enhydra, a leading Open Source Internet application server supporting Java, XML, and wireless technologies. Lutris offers a full range of support services and technical training to Lutris Enhydra customers and provides complete Internet consulting services, including strategy and development services, to the Enhydra community and to Internet-savvy businesses. Clients range from entrepreneurs and companies launching new Web ventures to Fortune 500 IT organizations growing their business with an online presence. Additional information about Lutris products and services is available at www.lutris.com.
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Bertelsmann forms alliance with Napster

Author: JT Smith

Info World reports, Bertelsman’s newly formed eCommerce Group, BeCG, and Napster have developed a membership-based service that will provide file-sharing capabilities that “perserve the Napster experience while at the same time providing payment to the rightsholders,” the company said in a statement. ZDNet reports that Napster will soon be charging fees. The Associated Press talks about how the deal could save Napster.

Security dominates agenda at federal Linux conference

Author: JT Smith

With the news that the Microsoft Corp’s network had been breached, ZDNet eWEEK reports, security was a hot topic at Monday’s first-ever federal Linux user’s conference.

Category:

  • Linux

Information wants to be autarchic

Author: JT Smith

By Tina Gasperson
News Editor

In Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” playing cards and chessmen come alive, at least in the little girl’s imagination — or the writer’s delirium. In the world of technology, one guy and his band of merry men have personified software, imbuing it with the desire to be free. That guy is Richard Stallman, of course, and everyone knows the Free Software Foundation is full of merry men. The word free, as normally applied to inanimate objects, means without charge (as in beer). But Stallman says his software is free, as in “not subject to the control or domination of another,” or “not hampered or restricted in its normal operation.” That’s proven to be a difficult concept, even for technologically adept people. We hear free, we think “Duff,” to put it in Simpson-ese terms.

Not only that, but there isn’t a ZDNET reporter, dead or alive, who hasn’t called Richard Stallman a member of the Open Source movement — and that chaps his hide a bit, since according to Stallman, Open Source people simply do not see the issue of software free-ness as a matter of principle.

You can’t fault Stallman for expecting hackers to be intelligent enough to grasp the subtleties of the language. But let’s face it, the free moniker just isn’t working out. Perhaps the name needs to be changed. And since RMS is obviously too busy with public speaking engagements to take the time, we hauled out Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus for him.

The synonyms for free are much more descriptive and clear for the benefit of bonehead developers. We’re treated to terms like “autonomous,” “independent,” “separate,” “sovereign.” And then there are “unenslaved,” “delivered,” “emancipated,” “liberated.” Two of my favorites are “self-directing” and “self-governing.” Or, we could give software personality and call it “individualistic.”

Dramatically speaking, software could be “unbound,” “unchained,” “unfettered,” or “unshackled” — all these words are especially fit for an impassioned plea to the unwashed masses of disinterested Windows users.

But as I perused the pages of the mighty thesaurus, there was one word that struck me as particularly befitting the nature of freeness as it pertains to software, and that word is “autarchic.”

It means “self-governing,” but it wasn’t just the definition that spoke to me; it was the uniqueness of the word itself. It’s a distinctive word. It’s a cool word. Information wants to be autarchic, doesn’t it? Not only that, but studies have shown it is impossible to think about Duff and autarchy at the same time.

The foundation could even use the Autarchic Creed, a pagan sacred text, almost verbatim. The creed is too long to republish here, but a couple of grafs stand out as particularly applicable to the movement.

“But in this mortal life, greedy, trivial hierophants and mundane
rulers (corporate America?)have perpetrated a fraud upon humanity. They have purloined
for profit and temporal power, our legitimate heritage (source code?), and that of
all society, and have substituted for it shame, despair, and fear (EULAs?),
inventing evil deities (attorneys?) to terrify and to constrain mankind from the
exercise of his own native conscience.

“That is the apocryphal hell and the fabled satan (Bill Gates?); they are of mortal
creation; they are now, not in some remote bye-and-bye; and those who
choose to believe in them perpetuate them in this earth.”

What’d I tell you? It’s perfect.

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Category:

  • Management

Wind/U 4.4 update includes Windows 2000 source code

Author: JT Smith

Business Wire:This new version uses Microsoft Windows 2000 source code for
updated features such as Windows Common Controls. Important new COM features such as COM
Smart Interface Pointers are included, as well as updated ATL 3.0 and OpenGL 1.2.1.

IBM Japan to install 15,000 Linux servers in Lawson Stores

Author: JT Smith

IBM Japan Ltd. announced it will install its “e
server xSeries,” Linux-based servers, at outlets of major convenience store chain
operator Lawson Inc, reports AsiaBizTech.

Republic of Taiwan grants Xybernaut mobile computing patent

Author: JT Smith

Xybernaut Corporation announced today that the Republic of Taiwan has granted the company
its second patent in Taiwan for wearable computing and communications systems, from PRNewswire. The Xybernaut product line features the Mobile Assistant IV, which runs
all major PC operating systems, such as Windows 98/2000/NT, Linux and SCO
UNIX.

Tivoli, CA upgrade storage management

Author: JT Smith

Tivoli has started shipping the latest version of its Tivoli
Storage Network Manager, the first to incorporate the new ANSI T11 storage area networking (SAN) discovery
and management standards, and, reports CRN on TechWeb News, Computer Associates is now shipping
NetWare and Linux versions of its ARCserve 7.0
data-protection management suite.