Hewlett-Packard announced that OpenMail for Linux has passed the 1 million user

mark after only 10 months of availability. OpenMail is one of the leading business-messaging and collaboration systems for the Linux operating system.

Sun Microsystems has tapped Linuxcare to create software to allow Linux computers to take advantage of Sun's new T3 data storage device.

Linux is moving in on everything Sun has worked so hard to establish. Is Sun preparing to battle? Are Solaris developers sharpening their swords, focusing their energies on wiping out the Linux community? Actually, they're not. Sun is helping Linux in a big way.

IBM has confirmed that it is considering repositioning its entire server line in a wide ranging initiative that analysts said would decide which platforms and architectures the company will invest in.

As of July 31, 2000, the PowerMac 5200/5300/6200/6300 family of computers, and their Performa equivalents, are officially supported in MkLinux.

NEC decided to join the IA-64 Linux Project led by Intel, making it the first Japanese server maker to do so. NEC's decision expresses its post-Windows strategy more distinctively than most Japanese server vendors, who have been sensitive to reaction of Microsoft.

Caldera's acquisition of SCO's Unix business would appear to mark the latest stage in the ongoing consolidation of the Unix industry and is likely to bring about one of the most radical shake-ups in the sector to date.

The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan recently introduced a clustered parallel supercomputer based on the Linux operating system. The introduced system uses the platform of Compaq Alpha Beowulf cluster.

The new version will be previewed along with a demonstration of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Linux at the three-day LinuxWorld convention in San Jose.

IBM plans to release open-source code for a Linux edition of its emerging Sash Weblications development environment from the www.gnome.org Web site, plus Weblication plug-ins that will include a Lotus Notes client.