Red Hat has take some hard knocks on Slashdot (and elsewhere) recently, so Bob Young wrote an open letter to Slashdot readers telling his side of a lot of the talk surrounding problems with the recent RH 7.0 release.

Atipa Corporation, an end-to-end
provider of Open Source and Linux solutions, announced today at the Linux
Atlanta Showcase the rollout of a new product line of Beowulf computational
clusters, the Ascendance series, from PRNewswire.

Demonstrating its considerable
clout, ZDNet eWeek reports, Intel Corp. is bringing together the leaders of
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo
Inc. for an invitation-only “e-business summit” this week
to discuss its call for open standards, greater industry
cooperation and other critical issues — such as its
Itanium processor.

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.