Linux is not a serious threat to Windows and is unlikely to ever be a true competitor, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

The latest version of Cplant Antarctica, the upwardly mobile computer at Sandia, is expected by researchers to become the 20th fastest in the world after integrating, 1300 off-the-shelf computers recently arrived from Compaq.

Reports on developer newsgroups suggest that the latest chip stepping of Intel's Itanium processor is causing problems for Linux developers whose code worked fine with stepping A2.

Based on my experiences 'selling' Open Source the last few years, it's a simple

bullet list of do's & dont's that might be useful to people who have to present

Open Source solutions to customers or management.

KDE is not a problem now, but there are possible problems for some parts of KDE

in regard to use of the GPL. I believe these problems can be solved, and since I am not against KDE, I would like them to be solved.

Compaq still has a very close relationship with Microsoft. Indeed, Compaq is the PC maker Microsoft most frequently courts. So is the company speaking with forked tongue when it tries to woo Linux users?

Terra Soft, the company behind the Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux PowerPC distros has released a supercomputer cluster based on Apple's iMac.

IBM may be driving the new economy with its e-business efforts, but deep down it still acts like the old-economy Big Blue.

Caldera Systems' plan to purchase the server and services units of struggling Unix vendor SCO puts a new spin on the evolution of Linux. To succeed, however, Caldera must articulate a coherent road map for OpenLinux and SCO OpenServer.

Hitachi is to offer Linux on all of its major product lines, from mobile devices to mainframes, the company announced in Tokyo recently. Support will be available on its MP mainframe series; IA-64, 9000V Unix and HA8000 PC servers, the Flora PC series and its mobile products.