Hardware manufacturer SGI furthered its commitment to the Linux operating system by announcing the availability of IBM's WebSphere Application Server on the SGI 1450 Linux-based server.

The supercomputer will start at a third of a trillion arithmetic operations per second before going upto about four TeraFLOPS of data or four trillion arithmetic computations per second by the final upgrade in 2002.

Much of the Internet is run on open-source platforms, including Linux. But bringing Linux over the divide to in-house corporate use still remains a problem.

The days of grossly over-inflated Linux stocks seem to be tapering off. Profitability and realistic plans are back in the rule book.

NETsilicon Inc., a provider of network-enabled, system-on-chip solutions for embedded systems became a member of the Embedded Linux Consortium to help drive the acceptance of Linux in embedded systems.

A Detroit law firm saved atleast $100,000 over and above system administration costs by moving to diskless Linux workstations.

The LPI organisation, a nonprofit organisation focussing on testing and certification, evolved from two seperate mailing lists and the Digital Metrics Linux community certification project.

Using API's 64-bit platform Linux, QSW can now offer customers high-performance scaleable supercomputers with the flexibility to support a wide range of parallel programming models on the Linux platform.

1stUP.com has implemented over 50 high-density VA Linux servers to power its application server infrastructure as well as its Oracle 8i(R) database, now supporting 3.5 million registered subscribers.

Linux, which saw a boost in customers last year as Microsoft kept delaying the Windows 2000 launch, seems to be holding its own four months after the Microsoft operating system shipped.