SCO (Nasdaq:SCOC) and TurboLinux today announced a worldwide services initiative that will provide TurboLinux customers with Linux Professional Consulting Services from SCO.

TurboLinux, today announced an agreement with Linuxcare Inc. to partner on enterprise support, services, training, and hardware certification and testing for TurboLinux software, including TurboCluster Server.

Trend Micro, Inc., the leading provider of centrally managed Internet virus protection and content filtering products and services, today announced shipment of InterScan(R) VirusWall(R) 3.01, its Internet gateway virus scanning software solution designed specifically for the Red Hat 6.0 version of Linux.

Cobalt Networks, Inc., will announce tomorrow at ISPCON the RaQ 3i, their third-generation "server appliance" product, designed specifically to support high-traffic web portals, e-commerce, and application hosting.

Executive Director of Linux International -- and more importantly, someone who admits to wearing Linux underwear -- Jon "maddog" Hall is the official "Linux Evangelist" at VA Linux, and one of the community's most outspoken members.

Allaire is bringing its popular Web application platform to Linux. Developers will soon be able to use ColdFusion to build e-business solutions on the Linux operating environment.

As with productivity applications, like word processors and spreadsheets, the choice among network operating systems (NOSes) is smaller than before. Banyan Vines, Artisoft Lantastic, and IBM OS/2 still exist, but have ceased to be important in the small business market. Today there are three major choices: Microsoft Windows NT/2000, Novell NetWare, and Linux.

A friend of mine at work gave me a copy of "Armed Linux" the other day and asked me to figure it out for him. I took the CD home, unzipped the "ARMED.ZIP" file, read the README.TXT file, rebooted as instructed, and 10 minutes later I was net surfing.

Corel seems to understand exactly what is needed to make Linux palatable for the home user. And, based on the demonstrations at LinuxWorld Expo, it seemed like Corel was making remarkable progress.

the Linux Newbie Administrator Guide, has been significantly updated again. The goal is to help new Linux users who encounter problems while administrating their home computers or small networks, so that they don't have to start over from scratch. The guide is Red-Hat-centric.