In a new ad campaign, the company has come up with a witty retort to the bullish Linux brigade. Instead of spending its time cowering in darkened rooms every time Linux notches up yet another success, it looks like the company is preparing for a battle of epic proportions.

Although the announcement of Oracle 9i got a lot more publicity, it looks like IBM will get to market first with DB2 7.1 Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) for Linux. EEE promises Linux an enterprise database platform that, like Oracle 9i, will catapult Linux into the enterprise.

A competitor of Red Hat says the Linux distributor is acting "proprietary" with its new Web-based support service, Red Hat Networks, but Red Hat says supporting its own software just makes business sense.

SUN Microsystems is moving toward making its Java technology fully open-source, a company executive said, addressing an audience of programmers at the ApacheCon Europe 2000.

Officially, the open-source OS is experimental in financial services firms, but it's starting to go into production.

Enterprise customers don't want to know about technology. They'd rather use pen and ink. They use technology because they can do things with it that they can't do with pen and ink. This is very specifically what the Red Hat Network is all about.

If there's one OS that's likely to avoid self-immolation via forking, it's Linux. Everyone of any importance or influence in the Linux development community whatsoever is painfully aware of how close UNIX came to making itself a historical footnote thanks to fragmentation. The Linux crowd just won't make UNIX's mistake.

Toyota perennially produces some of the world's most reliable cars. When the auto giant decided to create a comprehensive network to communicate with its 1,200 American car dealers, it wanted the same reliability in its operating system -- and chose Linux.

With KDE2 RC2 being used on thousands (maybe millions?) of desktop systems right now, and the final KDE2 code being shipped to packagers for release on the 22nd, I decided this would be a nice time to write a review on it.

Though not everyone is happy with this release of RedHat, it does contain some useful upgrades from the earlier 6.2 version. We can report on a number of significant changes, some pertinent warnings, and a few items that are not quite ready-for-prime-time.