Project Monterey, IBM's next-generation Unix operating system, which supports Linux applications and runs on Intel's 64bit processors, will be released this year under the name AIX 5L.

The reason we are so excited about Linux is we believe Linux can do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

Companies attending the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo are portraying the open-source movement as the great equalizer, capable of reducing giants to dwarfs and

making paupers patrons as new electronic applications begin to flow freely and fast.

The acquisition of SCO's Unix software and services will help Caldera address weaknesses that have kept Linux from mainstream use according to Caldera chief executive Ransom Love.

We're not concerned with the GNOME Foundation announcements. It won't change any of our plans for the future.

The best place to see the Linux fan following is at the LinuxWorld. People from all over the world were here in the San Jose Convention Center to attend this mega event. Some of us (that includes me too) traveled thousands of miles to get here. The entire town had Linux painted on it, the hotels were full, parking lots were getting filled up faster than before and generally the buzz words were Linux, Linux and Linux.

Mainsoft, the leader in common code-base cross-platform solutions for the enterprise, announced that Microsoft has signed a contract with Mainsoft securing Mainsoft's Professional Services and the right to use MainWin to port Internet Explorer and potentially other technologies to UNIX platforms.

Dell will spend $750m this year on Linux research and development, according to the company's chairman and chief executive Michael Dell during a keynote speech at this week's LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, California.

TurboLinux, one of the leaders in Linux clustering, and Red Hat, one of the most widely ported Linux distributions made announcements recently that would seem more likely to have come from the other vendor. TurboLinux ported to the 64-bit Alpha processor, and Red Hat announced its first clustering product.

Microsoft is working closely with a company called Mainsoft to port its Windows applications to open source operating system Linux and, possibly, other versions of Unix.