Number of major presidential Web sites running on a Linux platform: 1 (Gore)

An initial public offering by Caldera Systems Inc., which develops software based on the Linux operating system, was set at 5 million common shares that may sell for $7-9 apiece, the company said on Friday.

At the CeBIT 2000 conference, the world's largest information technology exhibition, SGI and SuSE Linux AG announced the initiation of a joint engineering project to bring IRIS FailSafe, SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating system. The two companies announced their plans to develop a version of IRIS FailSafe for high-availability applications in Linux environments.

Bang!inux a Linux Developers Conference being held at the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore Started off today with a Keynote Address from Michael Burghart of SuSe(Platinum Sponsor), who welcomed the delegates to the conference and hinted about having a SuSe Office/Development center in India@Bangalore.

Epoc and Windows CE are not the only operating systems for wireless handhelds. Geoworks, for example, was one of the first companies to produce software for wireless e-commerce and information services. Nokia's famous 9110 communicator and Hewlett Packard's OmniGo both run on Geoworks' Geos operating system. Phone.com, NetBSD and Linux are other potential competitors.

The notion that Microsoft might develop a port of Office for Linux has been rumbling around for several years, but the rumours have been picking up pace recently. At CeBIT this week, LinuxCare executive Arthur Tyde told reporters that he had heard that 34 developers were working on the project, which has given rise to a fresh round of speculation.

Michael Tiemann's early work with GNU software created world-leading technologies, becoming an inspiration to Linus Torvalds and an enabling technology for Linux in 1991.

While not a Linux-specific show, CEBIT is one of the best events to announce new products. Also, with Linux on the fringe and going for the mainstream, it is an excellent opportunity for Linux vendors to get an audience with the rest of the computing crowd. Which provides an excellent opportunity for me to see what the Linux community is doing to pitch to that crowd.

The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.'s (SCO) UnixWare 7 is the operating system squeezed in the middle between Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 and Linux on the low end of the server market, and by Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. on the high end.

Linux users will soon find another big friend: Novell Inc. After nearly two years of talk, the Provo, Utah, company plans to pull the trigger on a broad Linux strategy at its BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City next month.