The Associated Press on Canoe reports,
the 12,000-square-foot center will provide a demonstration
platform for companies trying to decide between Microsoft-Intel
offerings and competing strategies from Sun Microsystems,
Oracle and Linux.

IBM, Open Avenue, developerWorks, and Software Magazine are holding an Open Source Seminar in NYC on November 15, 2000 at the Hilton New York, announced on the Open Avenue News and Events web page.

Openoffice.org offers this open letter from Sun’s Group Product Manager for Webtop and Applications targeting release by tomorrow morning (presumably PST), meeting their target date for release of the StarOffice source code under GPL.

Linux Weekly News reports, 4.0.3 is mostly a security-oriented
maintenance release, therefore it’s strongly recommended for all users of
PHP to upgrade to it.

Sun yesterday released Java for Fridges – aka Java Embedded Server –
version 2.0 to loud hurrahs from no one in particular, from The Register.

Business Wire: Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of integrated system management software for Linux, Unix, and
Windows, announced that it will be exhibiting its award-winning EnlightenDSM software suite at
Booth 415 of the sold-out 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference being held at the Cobb Galleria
in Atlanta, October 12-14, 2000.

The National Post reports, Corel Corp. may be the tool Microsoft Corp. uses to ease itself into the open source
community, according to regulatory documents filed late yesterday.

Accelr8 Technology Corporation announced today the availability of its MIGR8 OpenVMS
conversion toolset on Linux, the increasingly popular low-cost alternative to
other more expensive operating platforms, from PRNewswire.

Trustix AS, a leading Internet
infrastructure software company that provides Internet software for
management of systems, software, security and information, today
announced it has successfully participated in a competition by hackers
and crackers who tried in vain to break into its secure operating
system – Trustix Secure Linux, from Linux Weekly News.

LinuxDevices.com offers the Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter for October 12, 2000.