Several basic servers are common throughout the Internet. This article briefly cover three of the more common: http, ftp and telnet.

This year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo boasted a whole new crop of clustering products. Commercial clustering solutions are finally ready for harvest. No longer are we stuck in a relative wilderness of Beowulf-only clustering -- the focus of attention for most academic institutions and scientific applications.

IBM is expected to debut a component of its e-commerce WebSphere server that runs on Linux, continuing its effort to bring the operating system to more of its larger server systems.

In the wake of major deployment announcements and the introduction of new product lines involving Linux, Big Blue is now working the Linux side of the street in the appliance department as well.

While the numbers weren't exactly frightening, the mass defection of VA Linux investors during Monday trading was. By day's end, company share prices had fallen 42 percent.

Alpha Processor Inc has rebranded itself as API NetWorks, and expanded its product range to with two new high-density servers aimed at Web servers, render farms and the network infrastructure market. Both support Linux in firmware which boots directly at power on, along with dual on-board Ethernet controllers and remote administration.

Windows 2000 is not secure enough to use on internet connected servers, according to a senior security analyst at Gartner.

A handful of Federal government agencies have challenged major Linux vendors to

step up their efforts to promote the use of open-source software for government

accounts. But they are frustrated at the fact that this usage is not officially

sanctioned.

Today, I'm going to tell you a story. It's about a company called Borland,

now known as Inprise. But I prefer to call it Borland, since the name

brings back old memories.

In the 1970s, Philippe Kahn was working on the Pascal language in

Switzerland. In 1982, he came to the USA. In those days, Pascal compilers

were very expensive and cost a few thousand dollars. They were available

only for mainframes. That made Philippe Kahn think back and write a Pascal

VA Linux Systems' stock price fell nearly 40 percent Monday following an announcement regarding disappointing first-quarter revenues. VA Linux attributed the revenue loss to lower-than-expected sales growth from new customers in the dot-com sector as well as increased spending on higher revenue expectations.