The business models that have been adopted so far have been: selling support, selling the software, selling documentation, or bundling with physical products. With a couple of financial quarters behind them, how are the Linux companies doing? Do the numbers show any model being clearly superior?

Alpha Processor, a company founded by Compaq Computer and Samsung in a bid to expand the market for high-performance Alpha chips, is rewriting its business model. Currently a seller of Alpha chips and associated electronics, Alpha Processor this fall will begin selling special-purpose Linux-based computers designed to pump out streams of multimedia content over the Internet.

Macromedia, Inc. announced Macromedia Generator 2 Enterprise Edition, the high performance, scalable solution that enables Global 2000 companies to quickly deliver high-impact, data-driven, visual Web content.

Lineo Inc., the embedded systems sister to Caldera Systems, filed for its initial public offering (IPO) of stock on May 18. It evidently plans to raise around $60 million; its planned stock symbol is LNEO. Lineo is the first real Linux company to file to go public since January.

Its CEO walked the plank. Employees are running for the lifeboats. And an initial public offering has been put on ice. What went wrong at Linuxcare?

Yet, according to many industry analysts, there is a significant development behind the hype. In a bid to shore up its cut of the e-business enabler market, IBM has strengthened its investment in Linux by adding support for the upstart OS to its monster S/390 mainframe computers.

Every now and then, industry observers have to stick their necks out and this is one of those occasions. No ifs, no buts - Project Monterey may be nearing its release date, but it will find that it has only a short life span.The answer is simple - Windows 2000 and Linux will make Monterey an irrelevance.

It's here, it's ready, and it has the long awaited 'Release' tag. The successor of PHP 3.0 has finally been released.

In this interview with Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum talks with Bryan about Lineo's perspective on the wide range of embedded Linux solution strategies.

With the recent hype surrounding open source software, an important project has gone unnoticed in the media. This project, FreeBSD, aims to create a rock-solid UNIX clone based on the 4BSD work from the University of California at Berkeley.