A high-powered group of government, technology, nonprofit, and finance leaders wants to solve the digital divide in developing countries, but they apparently do not believe Linux is part of the solution.

For most open source projects, news of an overlooked security hole is simply part of the debugging process. But for the developers of OpenBSD, an operating system whose design motto is "secure by default," it's nothing short of an affront.

Linux hardware seller VA Linux has an interesting strategy, and its financial grounding in computer hardware sales makes it stand out among the pure Linux companies.

Caldera Systems announced that its network orientated Linux management solution is entering open beta. The solution, formerly known as Cosmos, remotely manages networked Linux systems, of any distribution.

SAP has announced that it will make the SAP DB database management system

available as open-source software under GNU General Public License. SAP will

host a community forum at http://www.sapdb.org to drive further development of

SAP DB.

IDC reported that Linux is going to overtake the Mac within two years. Linux's

client numbers are not to be ignored. It's currently just a single percentage

point behind the Mac in installed base, and that's just counting sales.

At the mainframe end, the z900 represents a totally new hardware architecture -- and IBM is pushing Linux as a core product to run on it.

Oracle announced the industry's first clustered database server on the Linux operating system, Oracle8i Parallel Server. Customers will be able to use the low-cost Linux operating system to deploy mission critical, highly available business applications or large-scale data warehouses.

I'd just finished speaking to an embedded developer who'd chosen Linux over QNX because the last thing QNX's Neutrino is is Free Software. For another, the folks behind QNX have made no bones about what they consider a key distinction between their product and Linux: that pesky GPL.

I think they?re (Microsoft) interested in Linux, says the analyst, who covers Linux company Red Hat. I think they?re going to have to make a move towards Linux or be left in the dust. I mean, absolutely left in the dust. I think they have finally figured that out.