The database managers compared here are free or cheap to license, and they run on all levels of Linux systems, from the lowest-end hardware to high-end multiple-CPU servers. And they are widely used in production systems all over the world.

IBM released the new VAJ3.0 for linux before all others (win/os2/as400). You can download it from Visual Age Developer Domain It's not free, you must subscribe to VAD first ($149 now i think).

Major technology decisions will be made in Las Vegas next week, and professionals considering an enterprise investment in Linux will flock to the premiere of LINUX Business Expo. The show debuts at the Las Vegas Hilton, alongside COMDEX/Fall '99, the world's largest and most influential IT event, November 15-19, 1999 in Las Vegas.

Creative Technology Ltd. announced that a driver for Sound Blaster Live! family of sound cards is now available to the Linux development community for open-source development under Gnu General Public License.

y concerns are for the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) as a whole and, as I feel that certain items are not in the justice of the LDP, I can and will speak my mind. Although I am not always successful, I try hard to present thoughtful arguments to ideas and develop each idea that is presented.

Samba is a SMB server, that provides Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print to SMB clients such as Windows 95. The Samba Team is pleased to announce Samba 2.0.6.

OSK, Inc. has developed a kind of LinuxCE for use with many devices, including 3Com Palm.

Eric S. Raymond -- In a November 10th Yahoo-UK story the government of Communist China is alleged to have said that Linux will be adopted by that country as its official OS and that "There is a strong identification between communist China and the open-source free OS" Authority for this statement is traced to a press release by GraphOn www.graphon.com.

While perusing the web for ideas about what would make a good set of Linux classes, I come across a disturbing trend, one that was once only an insignificant bother, but hath now become enough of a problem to warrant attention: Linux Over-Zealotry.

This is a piece about how Microsoft's once-impregnable marketing image has taken a battering in recent times. It will cover what the implications of this are and why the Linux and Open Source communities can take much of the credit for the current circumstances and trends.