Sun’s recent $2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks immediately inflated market values for the sector’s Top 3 companies, reports Upside Today.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it will establish an
Accessibility Technologies Lab to work on technology development for people with disabilities, according to PRNewswire, the lab will work to develop an assistive technologies
framework for utilities, device drivers, and voice interaction capabilities
for the upcoming GNOME 2.0 — a free, open-source, and easy-to-use user
environment.

osOpinion article concludes, “your best bet to stay safe is sadly still to upgrade soon and often.”

According to this Linuxnewbie article, you don’t have to be a genius to figure out ways to circumvent Carnivore.

Investors and consumers alike are wondering what’s in store for the company’s next quarter century – and if its best days are behind it, from the Boston Globe on ComputerNewsDaily.

Story from The Wall Street Journal on MSNBC.com News proclaims, the latest creation of the 21-year-old programmer enables users of AOL’s wildly popular Instant Messenger to delete the ads from the online
chat program and what’s more, a Web site owned by Nullsoft — and ultimately AOL — has been giving away the software.

This article, from PHPBuilder.com, explains how it is possible to connect and query an MS SQL server (running under a Windows operating system) from php installed on a unix box.

Linux Weekly News announces, Debian is phasing out support for Debian 2.1.

Linux Programming reports, ActiveState, a leading supplier of products and services supporting open source infrastructure software, announced today the availability of a new version of the Perl Dev Kit.

The strengths and flaws of Sun’s Java IDE are evaluated in this review from Software Development Online.