Caldera has posted an early version of its OpenLinux product designed for the Itanium chip, making it the fourth major Linux seller to do so.

IBM researchers have crammed Linux into a wristwatch to test the limits of the operating system and explore ways people can interact with tiny computing devices. In addition, the company is considering using Linux in its upcoming Blue Gene supercomputer.

Despite popular wisdom and the usually jubilant claims of open source folk, Linux and Apache do not dominate the Internet. In fact, they hold only a tenuous 1.67% market share lead over Windows-based web sites.

I think we should be thought of as the Linux for the People. Although a lot of people have said there's not really much of a market there, we've seen a good market there for ourselves up to this point and we've leveraged it into creating a good corporate product.

The marriage of SCO and Caldera breathes new life into the promise of open systems. The recent purchase by Linux distributor Caldera of SCO's Unix assets signifies, at the very least, a rebirth of Unix rather than a death.

Lineo announced that USE, the 100 percent Lineo-owned Japanese engineering subsidiary, has been reincorporated as Lineo Japan to provide the Japanese market with Lineo's full-service operations, including marketing, sales, training and technical support.

Ericsson will use Trolltech's Qt/Embedded as the graphical user interface solution for their upcoming cordless screen phone, the Linux-based HS210.

The Chinese government has put its stamp of approval on Linux. What if other parts of the world, soon follow suit? Think about what would happen if India, one of the largest markets for software development, also decided to back Linux.

IBM said that researchers are running the Linux operating system on a prototype

wristwatch device which will have the ability to view condensed e-mail messages

and directly receive pager-like messages.

Sybase will not be incorporating Linux into its internet application product range in a move that runs contrary to current industry trends and to the company's

overall strategy.