Is having the Win32 API (Application Programming Interface) available on Linux a good thing?

Perhaps in ten years this will no longer be an issue, but right now the answer is "you bet".

The NetWinder OfficeServer Rebel.com weighs two pounds, is two by 9.5 by six inches, but serves 100 people. It ships with Red Hat Linux pre-installed but you hardly need to know Linux to configure and use it.

Shares in VA Linux Systems, Red Hat and Corel have plunged more than 70 per

cent this year even as rival Microsoft grapples with a government plan that could

force a break-up.

Intrinsyc's latest product, the new CerfBoard, a reference platform for the

imbedded market, comes pre-equipped with Linux and is a mere 2 inches square.

Michael Tiemann talks about Red Hat's current intentions for eCos, an open source embedded OS. The status of EL/IX, a Red Hat proposal for an embedded Linux version of the POSIX API and the progress of the Linux Standards Base.

Taiwan's IT powerhouses are boosting their R&D efforts for software and hardware that support the popular Linux system, trying to cash in on Red Hat's growing appeal.

These are the "big iron" machines that have been running for years within Fortune 500 companies who don't just let any operating system run on them. IBM placed the code for download on the website and not long after, 2,000 copies had been downloaded.

His company's wildly successful IPO kicked off the market's Open Source infatuation. So what's on Bob Young's mind these days?

Once you give up trying to make money off the software, you turn to service and expertise as your main source of money

Lernout & Hauspie showed its prototype speech recognition engine

for handheld devices. The device is built around the Linux operating system and uses a

StrongArm CPU.