Our original interview with two SCO Presidents somehow turned into responses from just one,

returned long after they were promised. Anyway, here are answers to your questions about

SCO from David McCrabb, President of their Server Division.

"ProsoftTraining.com and GTSlearning (formerly Global

Training Solutions) today announced a partnership that

will allow GTSlearning to provide Certified Internet

Webmaster (CIW) curriculum to GTS Partner companies

throughout the world."

Oracle instructors will provide in-depth information on

using the Java, Linux and Extensible Mark-up Language

(XML) capabilities within Oracle's latest software --

Oracle8i(TM) Release 2, Oracle Application Server,

Oracle Portal Framework and Oracle Internet File

System (iFS)."

"MontaVista Software, supplier of Hard Hat Linux, said it

has the answer for one of the shortcomings of Linux as an

embedded system: a real-time scheduler for the Linux kernel."

"Citing the fact that Linuxcare is a private company,

a Linuxcare spokeswoman declined to say how many workers

were let go. She said that word of the employee reductions

got out because a disgruntled ex-employee talked to a

reporter."

I would like to stand in defense of the Linux kernel

development team and attempt to clear up some of the

misunderstandings surrounding the upcoming release and

make it clear to anyone who'll listen exactly what is

going on and why it's a "good thing."

The fear is that, with Linux stocks in the tank right now,

the likelihood of Red Hat (or other distributions) failing

or being swallowed up in a merger is high. My point is

simply that if Red Hat should stumble or fall, there are

others in line who would be willing and able to pick up

the slack. And there are others behind them. The failure

of a single distribution of Linux would not mean the death

of Linux as a whole.

Spending by the U.S. federal government on IT security

is expected to reach almost $1 billion by 2005." The

question to answer: where does Linux come into play?

FOSE is a trade show dedicated to informing government

IT professionals. The Northern Virginia Linux User's

Group brought the first Linux Pavilion to FOSE.

Why do we choose free/open source software? There are

many reasons for that, of course. Do these reasons apply

only for software? Here are a couple of projects coming

out of Japan which stretch the open source model beyond

the software world.

Never let it be said that followers of Open Source news

lack passion. In response to a story on France's legal

challenge to proprietary software (read Microsoft) by

ZDNet, readers chimed in opinions on topics ranging from

socialism to military secrets to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Oh, and Open Source came up, too.