There’s always something new going on in Linux, reports Maximim Linux, while here at the Annual Linux Showcase in Atlanta, Maximum Linux decided to find out
how some of the visitors feel about a few of the
newest news breaks in the Linux industry.

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Connex, a developer of Storage Area Network (SAN) and
Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, today announced
a free trial of its SANavigator(TM) software,
reports PRNewswire, specific instructions for Windows, UNIX or Linux installations
are available on the web site and in the SANavigator ZIP file.

BusinessWire: Sphera Corporation, a pioneer in service automation for the Web hosting industry, today
announced the availability of Sphera HostingDirector 3.0, the first open and extensible software
platform to address the mission-critical IT needs of the hosting provider industry.

In her keynote speech at researcher Gartner’s
Symposium/ITxpo in Florida, Fiorina said: “The open source
movement is natural, inevitable and creates huge benefits.
It’s part of the next wave of computing, and that will involve
participants and users within the industry in open source.”, from vnunet News.

Reuters reports, 3Com Corp.
on Tuesday unveiled a home Internet appliance
named Audrey that provides electronic mail, Web
access, a calendar, address book and synchronization
capability for personal digital assistants.

Handspring, the developer of Palm OS-based Visor devices, would present
an even greater threat to Palm Pilots if it decided to create Linux-based, Palm-compatible appliances, suggests this article from All Linux Devices.

vnunet News reports, Unix and Linux will fight each other for supremacy over the
next 18 months but only one can survive, according to
Caldera Systems.

Linux Interactive article asks, and answers “Why is AOL at a Linux show (4th annual Atlanta Linux Showcase)?”

Chaired by VA Linux Systems UK country manager Ed Cole, the conference will focus on
the factors driving the increasing share of Linux in the corporate technology mix – and cut
through the hype to examine how you can exploit Linux to operational and competitive
advantage, from LinuxUser.com. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)