California-based Linux distribution publisher and software provider TurboLinux is laying off staff and announcing a management restructuring today. Jerry Greenberg, senior marketing v.p., says, "We built the company on the expectation of doubling every quarter. We're growing well, but not at that rate. We had to respond to it."

There is a growing body of work on how to effectively manage XML data in hierarchical, relational, and object databases. Hierarchical databases are often considered the most natural representation because XML itself is a hierarchy of elements and character data.

"I've laid off thirty of my best friends, said Wiegand. "That doesn't feel good. I was emotionally moved and this lady took advantage." He says hypothetical discussions with Linuxgram about technology waves were "wilfully misinterpreted as comments about Linux and SuSE respectively.

Compaq is planning a series of acquisitions to boost its enterprise software and services capability - but chief executive Michael Capellas rules out Linux playing a major part in the company's high-end strategy.

This three-part series on the Linux 2.4 Software RAID introduces the new technology that's used to increase disk performance and reliability by distributing data over multiple disks. This first installment covers Software RAID setup (kernel and tools installation) and shows you how to create linear and RAID-0 volumes.

IBM expects "a significant number" of Linux deployments over the course of 2001, and is boosting its Linux support offerings to try to overcome enterprise conservatism. The company says it will spend more than $300 million to develop services and support for Linux users.

The new device runs Linux, a 266 MHz Cyrix processor, 64 megabytes of memory, a CD ROM drive and a 56K modem. The device contains no hard disk and for $199 no monitor is included. It can be used on either an Ethernet local area network or be plugged into a phone jack.

"I'm not a Java fanatic, but I do like the language and I've used it extensively in the past, so I take a special interest in this situation ... As I see it, the reason Java's largely ignored in the Linux realm is one or more of the following factors: politics ... principles ... Java is slow."

Caldera and SCO have announced that they have amended the agreement to purchase the SCO Server Software and Professional Services divisions by Caldera Systems. Under the terms of the new agreement, the SCO OpenServer product line will be included as part of the proposed SCO Server Software Division acquisition, giving Caldera complete ownership of SCO's operating system products.

IBM Japan Ltd. started to strongly promote a wide range of Linux applications for clients. It will launch notebook PCs equipped with Linux through a Linux distributor in March. "There is a need for Linux on notebook PCs among users in universities and research institutes. I will make 2001 the first year of Linux for clients," said Kazufu Hotta, managing director of IBM Japan.