One band is taking a simulated-life game a little too far — they’re writing music in praise of The Sims, reports the Daily Radar. Electric Funstuff, a band based in New York City,
has released a new single called Sim-Hilarities. In the song,
the band analyzes The Sims, finding remarkable
parallels between life and game. Find the MP3 download
on Beatz 4 Geekz.

Joining a chorus of interested industry parties, another embedded real-time Linux company steps forward to rebut MontaVista’s claim, reports ZDNet.

Oracle says its net income for its first fiscal
quarter more than doubled from a year
ago, driven by sales of its database and
applications software products. The
company also announced a two-for-one
stock split, its second this year. The story is at The Standard.

Maximum Linux follows up on reports that some Debian users want KDE included in the package.

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VA Linux Systems has announced that the company has moved up in U.S.
and worldwide Linux server market share since Q4 1999, according to
International Data Corporation.

Based on Linux server statistics recently released by IDC’s Worldwide
Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2000 release, VA Linux now ranks second in
the US, ahead of Dell and IBM, and third worldwide in terms of factory
revenue. The press release is at LinuxPR. (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Quicknet
Technologies, Inc., a provider of low-density Internet Telephony
products, announced today the purchase of Australia-based Equivalence
Pty. Ltd., the creators of the OpenH323 project. The acquisition expands
Quicknet’s ability to supply custom interfaces between OpenH323 with
their hardware and software, according to a press release at LinuxPR.

The Slashdot community discusses an article that challenges the popular idea that Open Source projects manage themselves

Linux Journal Press, a partnership between Specialized
Systems Consultants, Inc. and No Starch Press, announces the
publication of its first book. “Linux Music & Sound” (
$39.95, 350 pp. w/CD-ROM, http://www.nostarch.com/?lms, October 2000) is
the first book to document recording, storing, playing, and editing music and
sound using the Linux operating system. Read more of the press release at LinuxPR.

The singer says Universal Music Group isn’t passing its windfall in its successful lawsuit against MP3.com along to the artists. She wants a cut, Upside.com
reports,