ZDNet has an article about the technology of the future. The article claims that paper will be around in twenty years while other technologies may come and go. After thousands of years of use, paper may yet prevail.

Intel, says NW Fusion, is releasing five new NetStructure products.

Slashdot has a discussion about a story on the rebuilding of the British code-breaking computer Colossus from World War II.

From PR Newswire: Southern Arkansas University has
chosen Prometheus, an Internet-based online course software product developed
at The George Washington University, to deliver online course management for
students, faculty and staff. Prometheus is a
scalable software based on proven technologies such as leading databases from
Oracle and Microsoft as well as an open source code application built with
Cold Fusion.

From the Meta Group (on CNet): “Linux hardware seller VA Linux has an interesting strategy, and its
financial grounding in computer hardware sales makes it stand out
among the pure Linux companies.

Whether VA can actually fulfill CEO Larry
Augustin’s promise of profits by the end of calendar 2001, however, is
doubtful, even if the economy stays strong.” (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Technocrat.net features some Open Soure projects that don’t have to do with software, including OpenLaw, “where the discussions and materials used to craft
legal arguments (in briefs, letters, etc) are provided along with the final
output of the deliberative process itself.”

From OSOpinion: “With the announcement this week of
Corel and Microsoft completing a $135
million dollar deal, it brings into question
the seriousness of the commitment Corel
has to Linux. The Microsoft deal is for
implementation of Corel products with
Visual Studio 7 (or as MS wants to call it
Visual Studio.net). This is in clear conflict
with the initiative started last year to
market WordPerfect Office on Linux and
issue a Linux Debian package under the
Corel logo. This monster deal entitles
Microsoft to a very large stake in Corel, 24 million non-voting shares
(a whopping 24 percent of the shares), which to some may border
on conspiratorial.”

From LinuxPR: Easy Software Products today
announced the release of ESP Print Pro v4.1.4, a complete printing solution
for UNIX. The product is based on the company’s Common UNIX
Printing System technology and supports Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX,
Linux, and Solaris.

LinuxPlanet follows up on a CNet report this week, saying that Red Hat officer Michael Tiemann claimed his company started the Open Source revolution. From LinuxPlanet: “To some in the community, the quote indicated the worst they’ve ever
suspected of Red Hat, revealing a ‘Microsoftian’ lapse into editing the
historical record. Others of a more charitable disposition decided to wait and
see what Tiemann had to say for himself.

‘I was a little bit disappointed [Shankland] took that tack, because I think
he was focusing on the wrong point,’ said Tiemann.

‘Red Hat, Inc. is the company that really did start the commercial open
source revolution.’ “

Impera Corporation announced it
will close its subsidiary known as LinuxComponents.com and will lay off its
staff of eight people.

All orders placed with the site before Oct. 3 will still be shipped. The press release is at LinuxPR.