IBM deal looks to ensure service with a smile

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Big Blue has formed a partnership with Kana
Communications to integrate Kana’s software with IBM’s hardware, middleware
and services and to jointly market and sell the combined products. From CNet.com.

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Open Source

IBM to ship SuSE on Netfinity servers

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

For German SuSE, the IBM deal is the latest to strengthen its foothold in the US, where rival Red Hat holds a greater market share, says eWeek.

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Open Source

The suck factor: Leibovitch on Linux

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“How do you tell the useful criticism from the useless, as tempers heat up in the summer sun? It doesn’t really matter,” says ZDNet.

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Linux

Opinion: was MS right about Linux after all? USED TUES, GG

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet’s Charles Cooper talks about the possible results of the Microsoft antitrust trial.

Interview with Red Hat Chairman Bob Young

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The San Francisco Chronicle talks to Bob Young about the enthusiastic growth of Linux.

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Linux

Opinion: Linux stocks bring value

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Now that Linux stocks are affordable again, it’s
time to reassess the Linux market as a whole, says Sam Jaffe of Business Week Online.

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Linux

Myplay toys with ad-based anti-piracy tool

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

EverAd has designed an encryption technology that places restrictions on the use of
downloaded music files so they can be played only when people accept banner
advertising. From CNet.com.

Experts corroborate Windows, IE security hole

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Certain configurations of Microsoft’s
Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer Web browser are open
to a potentially dangerous vulnerability allowing a malicious programmer to
take over a computer through local and remote folders, says CNet.com.

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Linux

Gnome brings unity to LinuxWorld

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Gnome took
center stage at the LinuxWorld Conference & Exposition on Tuesday as Sun
Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and other industry leaders agreed to make it
the unifying desktop for the Linux and Unix communities. From MacWeek.com.

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Linux

Little kids click on banner ads twice as much

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August 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

In June 2000
kids 11-years-old and younger clicked on 0.87 percent of banner ads that popped up on their computer
screens. That figure is nearly double the 0.45 percent average click rate for all U.S. Internet users.

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Linux