IBM Singapore has announced that two leading research organizations -- the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) will build two Linux clusters using a total of 100 IBM eServer xSeries servers. The system at SMA is expected to be among the largest in Asia and students in both Singapore and the United States will be allowed computing time on this cluster to bolster their knowledge of Linux-based systems.

This release adds support for the latest stable release of the linux kernel and fixes a couple of bugs too.

"Through 2005 and beyond, we believe OSDBs (Open source databases) will be a non-factor in the database management system (DBMS) market, relegated to non-critical tasks (such as clickstream logging and directories)... Open source database companies will not be able to compete with the price, performance, maturity, and functionality of the commercial vendors."

"Through 2005 and beyond, we believe OSDBs (Open source databases) will be a non-factor in the database management system (DBMS) market, relegated to non-critical tasks (such as clickstream logging and directories)... Open source database companies will not be able to compete with the price, performance, maturity, and functionality of the commercial vendors."

Microsoft's comments have branded open source as anti-American and destructive to intellectual property, but IBM, which has recently become an outspoken proponent of open source, says Microsoft is swimming against the tide.

Microsoft's comments have branded open source as anti-American and destructive to intellectual property, but IBM, which has recently become an outspoken proponent of open source, says Microsoft is swimming against the tide.

VM Resources and GlassHouse Systems announce availability of VM/LinMan 1.0.0, software that enables web management of hundreds of independent Linux systems inside a single IBM S/390 or zSeries mainframe running VM/ESA or its 64-bitsuccessor, z/VM.

Ximian, a Boston company that works on the Gnome user interface for Linux, is scheduled to announce Monday a software project called "Mono" intended to compete against Microsoft.Net, according to sources familiar with the plan.

A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager is available. There have been many improvements since Nautilus 1.0.3 was released, mostly speedups and bug fixes.

Ransom Love caused a stir recently after saying he was sympathetic to Microsoft's view that the licence that governs much open source development suffocates business growth.