In a conference call with analysts, VA chief executive Larry Augustin said his company expects that big-business enterprise customers will be a faster-growing segment than the company's traditional customer type, Internet companies.

The virtual x86 machine emulator 'plex86' now works on a second Open Source operating system. So far plex86 did only support

Linux as host platform, and thanks to Frank van der Linden of Wasabi Systems (http://www.wasabisystems.com/), it now also

works on the i386 port of the NetBSD multi-platform operating system.

QNXStart reports, QSSL has introduced

DAP

which is a cheap license for small companies and developers

that allows them to release commercial software for the

RTP. There is also a new article on the QDN called

Using Neutrino's devctl(). Also the folks at

QNX have just sent the

FreeAmp

team a QNX enabled PC to continue the QNX port of

FreeAmp.

Embedded Linux is starting to penetrate embedded computer

applications within the U.S. Military -- a phenomenon attributed

to the operating system's stability, real-time capabilities, and

open source license.

For the last few months of its existence, CMGI's iCast was the official home of the

colorfully named

Ogg Vorbis project, an attempt to create a digital music

compression format that would sound as good as or better

than the MP3 format but lack prohibitive license fees.

Shares of Linux operating system companies extended gains into a second session after IBM it will invest nearly US$1 billion in the open operating system next year. The IBM investment combined with Nasdaq's robust but short-lived rally and sentiment that the stocks have been pounded all boosted Linux companies, said an analyst at ABN Amro.

The system will be built as a package combining Oracle's Linux database option, for Oracle8I, "Oracle Parallel Server for Linux" (to be shipped beginning in April 2001), with NEC's cluster system "CLUSTERPRO for Linux."

1,100 Linux processor configuration combines unique software and operational IT techniques with world-leading science to accelerate drug discovery through the analysis of protein structures.

Red Hat shares rose 17 percent on investor optimism that the largest U.S. distributor of software based on the Linux operating system will meet or exceed financial forecasts, an analyst said.

If you want to use Linux for your brandnew, super-speed Pentium

4 CPU, just go ahead! SuSE has integrated backward-compatible Pentium

4 recognition in the standard Linux kernel 2.2.16 included in

SuSE Linux 7.0.