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    Evolution's latest mutations

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:53 pm

    It's been a while since I've looked at Evolution, the GNOME project's answer to Microsoft Outlook. I wrote about Evolution 0.2 last summer, when it was barely out of the larval stage. While some serious progress has been made between 0.2 and the current 0.8 release, there is still work to be done before 1.0 goes out the door later this year.

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    Inside IBM's Linux Technology Center

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:24 pm

    When I first heard about IBM's Linux Technology Center, my ears pricked up because Austin, Texas, was regularly mentioned in conjunction with it. I pictured the LTC as part of IBM's complex of buildings on and around Braker Lane in north Austin. That impression was so firmly entrenched in my mind that I contacted IBM and asked about visiting the center and interviewing some of the company's top Linux geeks. Big Blue gently informed me that I was mistaken; the LTC is a virtual center, not a physical one. Still, my curiosity about the LTC remained high. This week, I'll present what I've learned about the LTC since then.

  • New 'Injustice' virus spreads political message

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:23 pm

    A new e-mail borne virus designed to spread a pro-Palestinian message is popping up in some North American mail systems, according to alerts from the major virus vendors.

  • Sharp, Sony develop optical IEEE1394 technology

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:12 pm

    Sharp and Sony have completed development of an IEEE1394-based optical-fiber home-networking system and will shortly begin licensing the technology.

  • Messman plans to implement Novell's one Net strategy

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:07 pm

    Jack Messman, soon to take over as CEO of Novell, said Monday that developers and customers will play an important role in moving with the networking software company as it evolves into a services-related provider.

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    Profiting on Linux

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 12:00 pm

    The Linux marketplace is a dichotomy if I've ever bumped my head on one. On the one hand you have the free software folk who brought us GNU and the GPL, and on the other you have, well, IBM for example. One side is altruistic and interested in sharing knowledge for the benefit of all. The other side is materialistic and motivated by profit. Between the two poles stand the open source crowd and the bulk of the Linux community. The most recognizable voice in the open source group belongs to Eric Raymond, who has brought us parables aplenty to explain the differences between the cathedral and the bazaar, and told us how to make money in a strange land with diametrically opposed interests (see Resources for a link).

  • Novell pushes one Net strategy at BrainShare

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:51 am

    NOVELL PLANS to demonstrate next week at its BrainShare conference that the company's strategy for delivering network services over a unified framework is ready for prime time. The Provo, Utah-based company added support for its "one Net" vision this week with the $266-million acquisition of management consulting vendor Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP).

  • Teacher in China jailed for Web posting

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:41 am

    A secondary-school teacher in China has been given a 2-year jail sentence for posting what Beijing considered to be an anti-government slur on an Internet bulletin board last August.

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    LinuxWorld Expo refutes the FUD

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:41 am

    If you've ever wondered how much truth there might be in Microsoft's FUD campaigns, like the one currently under way to convince us all that Linux is doomed, the answer is that there is always some truth in them. Ideally, from Microsoft's point of view, it will be the absolute minimum required to convince the unwary that they are speaking the whole truth. Because the rodents in Redmond can sound oh-so-sincere, it behooves us all to keep in mind that they are the same people who promised us that Windows 95 was an "all-new 32-bit operating system" that would run in 4 MB of memory.

  • Spectrum battle to be in spotlight at wireless conference

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:23 am

    A high-stakes battle for radio-frequency spectrum that pits companies looking to build high-speed mobile networks against fixed wireless carriers and other current spectrum occupants is expected to be a big topic of discussion at a wireless industry conference in Las Vegas.

  • BrainShare news

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:18 am

    More than snowy mountain peaks formed the backdrop to this year's Novell BrainShare user conference in Utah. Networking software stalwart Novell has just traded in a young, visionary leader for a seasoned corporate executive. On the heels of its purchase of Cambridge Technology Partners, the company is pledging to sharpen its focus on Web services, a promise which has been heard from Novell before. But this year's confab has a distinctly new tenor, as depicted in a number of stories from the ITworld.com network.

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    Linux predictions for 2001

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 10:54 am

    Happy New Year, everyone! I feel a little silly typing that greeting this morning, since it's still a couple of weeks before January, but not as silly as I do about writing the rest of the column. It must be a disease of some kind, or a rite of passage for journalists. What else could explain the strange notion that we must, in the last few harried weeks of the year, put on our turbans, hold an envelope over our third eye like Johnny Carson, and make predictions?

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    It's been a very good year

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 10:50 am

    What a year it's been. I've had much to be thankful for during this orbit of the sun, and since I didn't write a Thanksgiving piece, I thought it would be fitting as 2001 rolls in to recount a few of good things -- large and small -- that have come our way.

  • Surfing in Tongues

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 10:33 am

    WORLD WIDE WEB addresses were recently liberated from the tyranny of roman characters. This blow to the English language's hegemony came on Nov. 10, 2000, when Mountain View, Calif.-based domain name registrar VeriSign started registering Web addresses in Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters.

  • HailStorm of Microsoft Web services hits

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 7:29 am

    HailStorm is Microsoft's code name for a set of user-oriented Web services, including a new version of Microsoft's Passport authentication technology. On Monday, Microsoft demonstrated services running on a Palm PDA, a Sun Microsystems workstation running Sun's Solaris Unix and on a PC running Red Hat Linux.

  • IT Forecaster March 20, 2001 - No. 894 The War for IT Talent Is Over and the Talent Won

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 1:00 am

    * White Papers: Will IT Salaries Change?

  • Beam Me Up to The Enterprise

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 1:00 am

    * Taking a look at "enterprise computing" with Java. COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS * White Papers: Want to Obtain the Full Benefits of Java in Enterprise?

  • Computer makers launch 1-GHz notebooks

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 9:17 pm

    A phalanx of major computer manufacturers marched out notebook computers using Intel's newly released 1-GHz mobile processor Monday.

  • Italy issues first electronic identity card

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 9:09 pm

    Interior Minister Enzo Bianco on Saturday issued Italy's first electronic identity card, making the Mediterranean nation the world's second country, after Finland, to introduce the IT-friendly document.

  • Novell shows products, partnership at BrainShare

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 8:59 pm

    Rallying support from customers and partners, Novell Inc. on Monday here at its BrainShare user conference unveiled a partnership and slew of products and features designed to drive momentum behind its strategy for unified networks.

  • Microsoft preparing a Hailstorm of Web services

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 5:20 pm

    The company is expected to unveil a series of Web services -- code-named Hailstorm -- that will help define .Net, a plan to deliver software as a set of services available over the Internet.

  • Making Oracle applications easier

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 4:32 pm

    Faced with the prospect of maintaining diverging sets of application data, British Telecomm happened upon Crystallize, a new company whose software automates the process of merging different implementations of Oracle Applications, changing the underlying database fields and restructuring financial systems.

  • German official denies Microsoft software ban report

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 4:28 pm

    A report in German news magazine Der Spiegel that states that Germany's military will not use Microsoft software on computers in "sensitive areas" is wrong, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday.

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    Win4Lin vs. VMware

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 3:02 pm

    Shortly after I wrote about Win4Lin a few weeks ago, I was bombarded with questions from readers asking how it compares to VMware. Win4Lin is a product that allows you to install and run Windows 95 or Windows 98 under Linux. With VMware, you can also install and run various other versions of Windows under Linux. (See Resources for links to both.)

  • Acquisition, new CEO fan doubts about Novell

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 2:20 pm

    Beleaguered Novell heads into its annual BrainShare conference this week carrying a new leadership structure and a significant new acquisition that have customers and industry analysts questioning the wisdom of both.

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