IBM Monday unveiled software to build Unix clusters out of its RS/6000 S80 servers.

The Blue Hammer clusters make use of IBM’s Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) to cluster up to 16 S80 Unix servers with a total of up to 384 processors. The software allows a single-control workstation to handle all administrative functions in the cluster. It also enables monitoring and control of hardware and enables scalability from two 12-way systems to 16 24-way systems. The followup

story is at CRN.com.

Plastic brick theme park Legoland has had its UK website defaced by a hacker who took advantage of an inadequately secured SQL server, reports VNUnet.

Over the long haul, it’s going to be a two-horse race in the Internet application development market. According to Gartner analysts, the thoroughbreds will be Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming .Net platform and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java. The story is at TechWeb.

LinuxWorld gives the scoop on Descent 3 for Linux.

A new vendor in the network-attached storage market is bringing the open-source software market into the NAS space. VA Linux Systems Inc.’s 9205 system is sure to shake up the NAS market, which, according to International Data Corp., will become a $6.57 billion market by 2003, reported Information Week. (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Linux NetworX, Inc., a provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and research fields, announced today that Rockwell Science Center will be using Linux NetworX clustering technology for simulating aerodynamic fluid flow in the analysis of aerospace systems. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

Linuxlab, Inc. announced Oracle 8i database and Java resources for its line of Linux
Web servers. More at LinuxPR.

Bill Bales would rather switch than fight.

The Napster co-founder’s second file-swapping start-up, AppleSoup, today said it will change its name
to “Flycode” following a complaint from Apple Computer.

The company received a cease-and-desist letter from Apple six weeks ago,
saying the name infringed its trademarks and demanding AppleSoup
discontinue the name and eventually hand the “applesoup.com” domain
name to the computer giant. The story is at CNet.

From a story at The Standard: “The announcement on Friday that the
federal government was joining the
defenders of copyright rather than the
“information wants to be free” crowd in the
Napster case was treated as just barely
news by the media. All the major outlets
and Net trades reported it, but in such
similar ways that they all could have run
AP copy and given their Net music
reporters Friday afternoon off.”

In an effort to bring the future of technology to your living room today, Nokia has announced the “Media
Terminal”, which will make your TV into a techno-geek’s wet dream. To add to the splendor, the whole
thing will be run on Linux using XFree86 and Mozilla. The update on an earlier story is at Maximum Linux.