JBuilder Foundation is a comprehensive set of visual development tools for creating Pure Java, platform-independent business applications, applets, servlets, and JavaBeans for the Java 2 platform. It is available as a free download.

This is not just a Linux site. There are Linux tutorials and articles here. There are also good links here for PHP, MySQL and pointers to a lot of online resources.

Linux may be temporarily down, but it's far from out. That was the defiant message from Sam Ockman, CEO of Linux server company Penguin Computing, speaking at NetWorld+Interop 2000.

The Linux movement is expected to reach another milestone next month when Linus Torvalds officially sanctions the long-awaited Linux 2.4 kernel for commercial release.

Eazel proposes to radically change the way people buy and maintain software. Instead of going to stores to purchase software, a user can buy the software online. The program is then downloaded from the Internet and automatically installed. Alternatively, users can pay monthly subscription fees for access to the software they want, including all upgrades and patches.

There are a number of avenues and methods through which security of a network can be breached. Attacks from the Internet through the firewall are the ones that this article concentrates on.

If Sun wants the support of the Linux and Open Source communities, they might just want to consider the benefits of the GPL license -- they might also want to take a good close look at how the GPL helped KDE become a more widely accepted technology because of the actions of TrollTech.

What the company is trying to do -- make the open source Linux operating system an industry standard rather than a hacker's fantasy operating system -- fuels a kind of romantic aura that hard data doesn't stand a chance of defusing. Not to mention the whole knocking-Microsoft-off-its-perch thing.

IBM has just launched another major initiative that can be expected to increase Linux adoption in the enterprise. Bargain pricing on enterprise applications that its Small Business Server offers will give ISVs and VARs more incentive to support Linux in the small business market, while this IBM/Sendmail combination will do the same for Linux in larger businesses.

Although Linux was a pioneer OS for wireless applications, a combination of size, technical factors and marketing considerations have made it lag behind as wireless applications and hardware have exploded. However, that is rapidly changing

as Linux displays its flexibility and the advantages of the open systems model.