In the wake of major deployment announcements and the introduction of new product lines involving Linux, Big Blue is now working the Linux side of the street in the appliance department as well.

While the numbers weren't exactly frightening, the mass defection of VA Linux investors during Monday trading was. By day's end, company share prices had fallen 42 percent.

Alpha Processor Inc has rebranded itself as API NetWorks, and expanded its product range to with two new high-density servers aimed at Web servers, render farms and the network infrastructure market. Both support Linux in firmware which boots directly at power on, along with dual on-board Ethernet controllers and remote administration.

Windows 2000 is not secure enough to use on internet connected servers, according to a senior security analyst at Gartner.

A handful of Federal government agencies have challenged major Linux vendors to

step up their efforts to promote the use of open-source software for government

accounts. But they are frustrated at the fact that this usage is not officially

sanctioned.

VA Linux Systems' stock price fell nearly 40 percent Monday following an announcement regarding disappointing first-quarter revenues. VA Linux attributed the revenue loss to lower-than-expected sales growth from new customers in the dot-com sector as well as increased spending on higher revenue expectations.

When India Inc. is grappling with `digital divide', Linux, the free operating systems which is giving sleepless nights to Microsoft, has come up with a solution.

Mission Critical Linux has tapped into old-guard talent, hiring Robert Tumanic away from corporate-computing veteran Unisys to become the start-up's chief operating officer.

Reflecting on his own recent promotion to CEO, Linuxcare co-founder, Tyde says the past two years have taught him much about the subtle difference between being a leader and being comfortable with being the leader.

SGI has installed one of the first Intel Itanium-based Linux clustered systems at the Ohio Supercomputer Center to test Linux clusters as a replacement for massively parallel processor systems.