ZDNet News announces, the first version of Bluestone Software Inc.’s Java Transaction Service is now generally available, following
the company’s acquisition of the technology this summer.

The amount of data on the Internet will explode in coming years, but inexpensive storage systems soon will be available to handle all of the information, said Mike Ruettgers, chief executive officer of storage vendor EMC Corp. in a keynote speech Wednesday at Oracle Corp.’s Open World, from IDG News Service on IT World.

LinuxNews commentary on what is going to be the ultimate and supreme challenge to the continued existence and penetration of Open-Source into the world of enterprise computing.

Three days after the surprise announcement that Microsoft will acquire a 25 percent stake in erstwhile rival and current Linux vendor Corel, company outsiders are still speculating on what exactly the decision means for the open source community, reports Upside Today.

Red Hat Chief Technical Officer Michael Tiemann drew up his own points for rebuttal to a CNET article quoting him as giving credit to Red Hat for starting the “Open Source revolution”, Linux Today offers an
excerpt of the letter defending his position he sent to media outlets.

Today Impera Corporation announced it will close it’s subsidiary known as LinuxComponents.com and will lay off its staff of 8 people, Linux PR reports, all orders placed with the site before October 3rd will still be shipped.

Linux PR: Easy Software Products today
announced the 1.1.4 release of the Common UNIX Printing System
(“CUPS”), an IPP/1.1-based printing system for UNIX.

Linux Weekly News offers The LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Newsletter for October 5, 2000.

Today at Linux World, SAP AG announced it will make the SAP DB database management system available as open-source software under GNU General Public License, reports NewsAlert.

From a Boston Globe editorial: “Jack Valenti Believes in the unlimited right of movie studios to
control the distribution of their work. But professor Lawrence
Lessig says, ‘I believe in the right to hack,’ even if that
results in breaking codes that safeguard new movies on DVD discs.
Somewhere between those positions is a middle ground that fosters
the creation of new intellectual property, while protecting the
public’s fair use of older works.”