Linux is endangered by the popularity of the businesses formed to sell and service it. Red Hat, Caldera Systems, TurboLinux, and other Linux vendors can potentially stifle its development by packaging a single standard for the OS.

Forging its strongest ties yet with the open-source community, Novell said that Red Hat has adopted its NDS eDirectory and DirXML to power the directory services infrastructure of the leading Linux distributor's subscription service.

LynuxWorks has introduced VisualLynux, the first product to integrate the Microsoft Visual C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with development tools for the Linux operating system.

Speaking at the Networld + Interop trade show in Atlanta, Robert Young said the fast pace of change in the Linux world puts a lot of pressure on users to keep up to date with the latest releases, patches and updates.

Not sure if open source is the right choice for your online business? Perhaps you should take a look at News Interactive. The online arm of Murdoch's News Corporation in Australia has made a major commitment to the new software model.

Is Microsoft poised to sue a Noorda-funded company for intellectual property infringement? The latest round is all about Windows and Linux.

Red Hat announced that Samsung has awarded it a million dollar contract to port the Red Hat GNUpro embedded development tools to the Samsung CalmRISC line of low-power processors.

Will large-system vendors fork the Linux kernel?

From exploding multi-channel access and lucrative dotcom entrepreneurship

to complex cyberlaws and a troubling digital divide, the Internet has

grown so fast and so vast that fortunes and frustration seem to follow

side by side in its wake.

Delegates from over 150 countries gathered recently in Yokohama, Japan,

for INET 2000, the annual summit of the Internet Society (www.isoc.org),

a global organisation geared towards the worldwide promotion of the

Internet.

"The Net is truly going where no net has ever gone before," said Vint

Everything that is free has a catch. Maybe not this time. However, just to

give you the benefit of the doubt let's take a peek to get a fair

representation of Linux and how it compares as an operating system.

Computerization today is no more a luxury; it has become a way of life. It

increases efficiency, processes huge amounts of data and is an important

driving factor behind the economy of a country. Every organization has an

IT budget, whether it's large or small, commercial or non-commercial. Budgets