Linux was never meant to be commercial. Linux was not supposed to be running nuclear simulations or decoding what makes our very being. But Linux is commercial and Linux is doing nuclear testing and Linux was used to map the human genome.

MainSoft and Microsoft have offically denied all involvement with a Windows - to - Unix port of Microsoft's Office and Outlook products. I don't think the world will ever see Office in any incarnation on Linux.

IBM will be boosting its support of the embedded Linux platform with Linux middleware for Bluetooth-enabled devices.

Wall Street is not buying the Linux pitch. Professional money managers have done little beyond pocketing quick gains after the gold rush last year of initial public offerings.

But a new OS, will mix Monterey with Linux.

Big Blue is expected to announce today that it will begin loading and shipping SuSE Linux 7.0 on three models of its Netfinity server.

Major corporations joining the Linux love feast this week managed to quietly support their own agendas while boosting the operating system and its open-source contributors.

Informix announced the availability of Informix Dynamic Server.2000 for Linux on Compaq's 64-bit Alpha. This new release of IDS.2000 is the result of a three-way relationship between Informix, Compaq, and SuSE to bring the power and memory capacity of Compaq's 64-bit Alpha system to the Linux market place.

Microsoft has disputed a report that it has been working to port its Office productivity applications suite and other Windows applications to the open-source Linux platform.

What makes open source really tick? And, more importantly, how long can it keep ticking before some kind of time bomb explodes?