Corel Corp. has struck a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. that will see the global software giant invest $135 million US in the troubled Ottawa software

company.

If the analysts at Meta Group are correct, Sun Microsystem's expensive acquisition of Cobalt Networks may be a further step in a sophisticated play that both neutralises Linux as a direct threat and increases pressure on Microsoft.

You're an open source programmer, or you want to be. You're looking for a project that'll bring you some combination of education, good times, and money. How do you find it?

When the SPARC is already strongly supported by its creator, Sun Microsystems, and there already exists an operating system optimised for it which does the job, where does Linux belong? Would someone choose SuSE Linux over Sun Solaris on SPARC in a commercial environment?

Linux has been missing personal finance manager applications - but no longer. The rush for commercial standard apps has bred some high quality, robust programs

for the Linux community.

Irving Wladawksy-Berger says that Open Source is as important as the Internet to IBM.

Blind computers users had more difficulty than most people when they made the transition from DOS to Windows. Would a switch to Linux be as great a problem? Here's someone who thinks it would instead make their computing experience easier and richer.

Taming the complexity of your system and figuring out how to get the most out of it is an ongoing adventure. Here is Linuxmag's first annual all-tips article, to help you find the most direct path possible from what you want to do to how to do it with Linux.

In the long run, Cobalt helps Sun hedge its bets against the probability that its Solaris- and Sparc-based systems will not forever hold the lead in the high-end Internet server space.

Now that the Linux operating system is being embraced by the likes of IBM and Dell Computer, the darling of hobbyists is positioned to challenge Windows on several fronts.