Music and entertainment store MVC has deployed over 900 Electronic Point of Sale devices in MVC stores operating across a network of IBM Netfinity servers running Linux.

Apache is still the most popular Web server on the Internet, powering 10,704,306 hostnames (the first time that Apache surged past the 10,000,000 mark), representing 62.53 percent of all Internet sites.

For the TM3120, Transmeta has created its own specially tuned distribution of Linux that it is shipping along with its microprocessor line. Mobile Linux has been optimized for power consumption and is small enough to fit on a ROM.

Although hundreds if not thousands of new online businesses are launched each

week, this one had a major difference, Sydneypix.com was built and is entirely hosted using Linux software.

Linux has to take the battle to the desktop. I'm not saying Linux has to be dominant on the desktop. An Apple-like market share of 5 to 10% will be enough to fly the flag and push Microsoft's focus back on to its home turf.

Because the real opportunity is still ahead of us, it is very difficult to say who is or will be the leader. However, this much I know, Caldera understands better than any other Linux company where Linux needs to go to be successful.

Don't tell the boss but the programmers' pet, Linux, is running the shop. And it seems Windows 2000 will be the loser.

Linux has found its place among those of us that went for the gold and now regret dancing with the devil. Now it's up to all the penguin headed programmers to bring it up to speed so that we can sell it to our companies.

Compaq's recent announcement of the Open Handheld Program marks an important step toward bringing open-source operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD to handheld devices, beginning with Compaq's recently released iPaq H3600.

Compaq sees Linux being very important in a number of markets. It is a key component for customers needing low cost but highly effective webservers. It is absolutely critical in the high performance technical computing arena, thanks to the

excellent price performance value of Beowulf clusters.