IDC Japan released its year-2000 Japanese market forecast for server operating systems. The company estimates that a total of 531,300 server OS licenses will be shipped in Japan this year, representing an increase of 26.9 percent over 1999.

Trolltech, citing enhanced revenues from the release of QT/Unix under the GPL as well as a desire to promote open source programming communities, announced they will do the same with their Qt/Embedded toolkit.

Linux-Mandrake 7.2 is immediately available via different Internet servers through. With this new version, MandrakeSoft confirms its commitment to empowering people by releasing a fully-secured solution which is one of the most complete and easy-to-use operating systems ever.

If anything claiming to be illegally copied Microsoft source code shows up on the Net, do not download or read it. If you do, you will lose the right to work on free software.

Akopia announced the release of Interchange 4.6, software that increases efficiency, improves productivity and simplifies the management of e-commerce.

IBM has announced that its Application Solution Center here is currently performing 64-bit porting exercises to prepare for Intel's new Itanium processor, due later this year.

Linuxcare has closed European operations and returned its original chief executive to the top job after a months-long search for a new leader.

There are always two sides to every story. And nowhere is that more apparent than when it comes to the advantages and disadvantages of open source vs. proprietary software.

LynuxWorks has become the second embedded Linux company to file initial public offering plans, hoping to raise about $70 million for its effort to spread the operating system into non-PC computing devices.

The future has never looked better for commercial Unix systems. Far from being threatened by Linux, Unix vendors see it as a teammate pulling in the same direction.