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Red Hat today announced that it has expanded its agreement with IBM to allow Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3 to be ordered concurrent with the order of IBM eServer(TM) POWER(TM) hardware, as well as support options.

PolyServe Inc. announced Monday that its Matrix Server shared data clustering software supports Oracle's 10g database on Linux.

Protecting data is the top priority for enterprise level buyers of software, according to Peter Moore, Microsoft General Manager for Public Sector for Asia Pacific and Greater China, and price issues come second.

[Editor's note: Some things on this world are just a complete mystery. This is one of them.]

LinuxQuestions.org is pleased to announce the addition of a Linux Certification forum. The LinuxQuestions.org Linux Certification forum will have participation from three of the leading Linux certification bodies: Red Hat, The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and CompTIA.

Acknowledging, as he has done before - at for example Computer Associates' CA World event last year - that he is just a kernel guy, Linus Torvalds told CEO Jack Messman's Novell that its approach to getting ready a full suite of Linux apps for clients ranging from corporations to individual PC users may just be "the next big thing in Linux on a different scale."

Although the computer industry seems focused on the 64-bit battle between Intel's Itanium and AMD's Opteron, a more interesting 64-bit platform to watch is IBM's PowerPC. Of IBM's two PowerPC platforms, the pSeries and iSeries, the latter, formerly known as the AS/400, is the one to watch. The iSeries, in combination with Linux, can drive new levels of productivity for end users.

Open source is being used by Novell Inc to provide tight integration between Linux desktops and servers, turning one of Microsoft's own tactics against it. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), iFolder will allow desktop users to back-up, access and manage personal files to any designated machine.

As financial opportunities develop, so the follows "the legal gravy train." If there is money in it, it is worth litigating. So, it seems to be the case with free software. Free software has moved from the world of "the anarchist" to the commercial world. Litigation has raised its head at the same time as some members of the venture capital community are rushing to invest in open source software.

The mozilla.org staff meeting minutes for March 8th as well as March 15th are now online and available for reading.

I was trying to decide yesterday on what my next tutorial should be, and I realised I had never written about why I love Linux1 so much. Well, it's time to let the world know.

The latest newsletter covering the wonderful world of Gentoo is now available.

For experienced Linux users -- especially those moving from another distribution to Fedora -- Pocket Linux Guide is perfect. It can be read in a day or so, during which it will remind you of many useful tools that everyone can stand to be reminded of once in a while. It will also give you an idea about the idiosyncracies of a standard Fedora install.

The European Union's ruling Monday against Microsoft -- a fine of€497 million for antitrust violations -- is a joke. Even if Microsoft has to end up unbundling the audio and video from this version of Windows -- which is not a technical problem whatsoever -- the company will find a reason to put it all back together again the way it was planned in Longhorn (the next version of Windows, due out in 2006). It could also reassemble it in some other product. Alternatively, the company still could reach a compromise with the EU.

Schaeffer's Market Observations are market-based reports that provide insight and analysis from a unique and unbiased perspective...According to Hoover's, [Red Hat] dominates the Linux market, which is an open-source computer operating system. The firm's products also include database, content, and collaboration management applications; server and embedded operating systems; and software development tools.

While Novell remains completely committed to its flagship NetWare network operating system, that product will cease to exist as a standalone product offering from the end of this year.

Do you like playing detective and solving mysteries? Performance problems come in many guises, giving you ample opportunity to indulge your clue-hunting proclivities to identify and resolve them. The main man behind the MegaJogos multi-player game site and a member of the Java Games community, recently altered the application behind the site to use the NIO package to enhance its scalability.

Attendees at Novell Inc.'s BrainShare conference this week will hear more product announcements related to the company's Linux strategy, but the bigger news may be the smiling faces of Novell officials and many users.

Novell today announced Novell(R) Open Enterprise Server, a combined NetWare(R) and SUSE(R) LINUX product.

Linux& Open-Source Center Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols understands why people think Linux is an enteprise level operating system, but what is it with these folks who think Windows is a real enterpriuse system?