Red Hat bought privately-held C2Net Software Inc. for about $42 million in stock. Commanding more than 30 percent of the Web server market C2Net's Stronghold server was a preferred choice for Red Hat to bolster their line of secure product

offerings.

VA plans to announce that it will offer software on a build-to-order model when

it sells its computer systems that are optimized to run Linux.

Dell is expected to demo an Intel Itanium-based server running Linux at the LinuxWorld Expo.

Red Flag Software is making expansion plans and aims to take its mainland China

developed Red Flag Linux software to the international market.

Linux is expected to receive another major boost this week when several key hardware vendors step up their support for the open-source operating system at the LinuxWorld conference in San Jose.

Unfortunately for Corel, Linux is not proving as successful in the markets. Investors' hunger for stocks associated with the operating system have so far been short lived.

IBM this fall will release AIX 5L, a freshly minted and renamed version of AIX,

combining extensive Linux support with performance-boosting features designed to appeal to IBM's more traditional high-end user base.

Due to stiff necks on both sides of the UNIX/Linux fence, and the Open Group's request to analysts that UNIX and Linux market share not be amalgamated in research reports, a major story goes unreported.

Things are going great for LPI right now. We're finishing up the Level 1 exams and starting to work on Level 2. The publicity we're getting has been great and people are commenting on the quality of what we're doing.

We think this is a breakthrough in Linux, getting Linux down into this size device. It's a good example of what we're trying to do, which is to see how broadly

we can use Linux, and to demonstrate our commitment to having open platforms.