Big Blue is expected to announce today that it will begin loading and shipping SuSE Linux 7.0 on three models of its Netfinity server.

Major corporations joining the Linux love feast this week managed to quietly support their own agendas while boosting the operating system and its open-source contributors.

Informix announced the availability of Informix Dynamic Server.2000 for Linux on Compaq's 64-bit Alpha. This new release of IDS.2000 is the result of a three-way relationship between Informix, Compaq, and SuSE to bring the power and memory capacity of Compaq's 64-bit Alpha system to the Linux market place.

Microsoft has disputed a report that it has been working to port its Office productivity applications suite and other Windows applications to the open-source Linux platform.

What makes open source really tick? And, more importantly, how long can it keep ticking before some kind of time bomb explodes?

Project Monterey, IBM's next-generation Unix operating system, which supports Linux applications and runs on Intel's 64bit processors, will be released this year under the name AIX 5L.

The reason we are so excited about Linux is we believe Linux can do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

Companies attending the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo are portraying the open-source movement as the great equalizer, capable of reducing giants to dwarfs and

making paupers patrons as new electronic applications begin to flow freely and fast.

The acquisition of SCO's Unix software and services will help Caldera address weaknesses that have kept Linux from mainstream use according to Caldera chief executive Ransom Love.

We're not concerned with the GNOME Foundation announcements. It won't change any of our plans for the future.