From ComputerWorld: “The impending exit of both of IBM’s plug-compatible
mainframe rivals from the mainframe market focuses more attention on
the real battle for the high-end server market: the one between IBM
and Unix server vendors, analysts and users said.”

ComputerWorld has a feature on BountyQuest, the Tim O’Reilly and Jeff Bezos-backed start-up that allows firms to offer cash bounties as a means of finding
information that could help prove or discredit patent applications.

Slashdot readers discuss an article about the Indrema gaming box, comparing it to the Xbox and Playstation 2.

Macro 4’s UniQPrint gives
users a single point of control for cross-platform enterprise printing from an S/390 platform running
Linux, from Enterprise Linux Today.

gnupg up to and including version 1.0.3 has a flaw in the signature checking code. All gnupg users should upgrade to the latest package, announced at Linux Today.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., the leader in Internet computing, today
announced the foundation for delivering advanced services over the wireless
Internet, reports PRNewswire. In front of media, analysts and customers at the company’s
headquarters in Santa Clara, Sun unveiled the strategy, products, programs and
services designed to leverage its expertise in the wired world of the Internet
into the rapidly growing wireless Web infrastructure.

A 100% Java-based rules engine,
iConfigurator combines many of the benefits from the world of artificial
intelligence with the simplicity of a point and click interface, reports Internet Wire. It is designed
for flexible, scalable, and quick deployment, and since it is written in Java
and JSP, iConfigurator is compatible with all major hardware and operating
systems.

Business Wire: David Winchell, Chief Technology Officer at Mission Critical Linux, Inc., will present a talk tomorrow afternoon at Software
Development East focusing on enterprise Linux technologies such as high-availability clusters and kernel crash dump analyzers.
The presentation will highlight the design, use, and implications of these cutting-edge technologies and how they enable Linux to
compete in the enterprise market.

Linux PR announces, in an unprecedented two week contribution period, users, programmers,
and companies involved with the Perl community raised enough funding to
grant Damian Conway the first-ever Perl Development Grant through the
Yet Another Society (http://yetanother.org).

Tamino is described as both an “information server” and a platform, reports Enterprise Linux Today. Now in version 2.1, the product
reflects Software AG’s recognition of the growing impact of XML and represents its move to break
away from the tethering proprietary standards it believes are becoming as legacy as the applications
and data they result in.