Unfortunately for Corel, Linux is not proving as successful in the markets. Investors' hunger for stocks associated with the operating system have so far been short lived.

IBM this fall will release AIX 5L, a freshly minted and renamed version of AIX,

combining extensive Linux support with performance-boosting features designed to appeal to IBM's more traditional high-end user base.

Due to stiff necks on both sides of the UNIX/Linux fence, and the Open Group's request to analysts that UNIX and Linux market share not be amalgamated in research reports, a major story goes unreported.

Things are going great for LPI right now. We're finishing up the Level 1 exams and starting to work on Level 2. The publicity we're getting has been great and people are commenting on the quality of what we're doing.

We think this is a breakthrough in Linux, getting Linux down into this size device. It's a good example of what we're trying to do, which is to see how broadly

we can use Linux, and to demonstrate our commitment to having open platforms.

Two companies will attempt to change the face of Linux forever, or at least the

interface, at LinuxWorld in San Jose.

Trying to capitalize on what it sees as a growing trend among both small and large companies, IBM will unwrap its first set of prepackaged Linux clusters for use on its PC-based line of Netfinity servers.

Just a few weeks after Caldera Systems detailed plans to acquire the server software division and professional services arm of Unix vendor SCO, two other Unix operating system vendors are weighing in with Linux support.

Linuxcare has responded to its sea of troubles by sailing its way into an unexpected harbor of good business.

Computing giant Hewlett-Packard will designate Linux as one of its three strategic operating systems and add new products and services to support it.