I read Bob Lewis' recent opinion piece at InfoWorld that stated Microsoft's strategy of Windows everywhere would eventually not let them win anywhere. WinCE is a flop and the Web ensures that more and more people know that Windows New Technology isn't, really, even in the year 2000.

No significant AIX/Monterey road map changes will occur as a result of IBM's reorganization and Linux pronouncements through 1H01 (0.8 probability). By 2002, as vendor involvement in Linux increases, Linux will become increasingly proprietary on a solutions level even while the operating system and basic infrastructure remain controlled standards (0.8 probability) - Gartner.

The OS wars, at least in the Internet server market, seem to have three main players still standing: Solaris, GNU/Linux, and Windows. Which of the various companies pushing these alternatives will gain the upper hand in the near future? Admittedly the question is a simplistic and difficult to make concrete. My bet is that a simplistic but probably correct answer is: The first of SUN or Microsoft to completely abandon their proprietary OS and transition to GNU/Linux.

In the first few months after setting up its first European office, Linux vendor Red Hat has been able to attract the attention of some of Europe's largest enterprise customers. "In all of my twenty years in the IT industry, I have never seen a response from the enterprise world like we are getting now", says Colin Tenwick, vice president Europe, Middle East and Africa for Red Hat.

WordPerfect can be downloaded from the Internet without charge or purchased on CDROM from several Internet vendors. Resources below for a list of sources. The downloaded version must be registered at Corel's Linux Site to be functional after 30 days, but there is no charge for registration.

PHP is a free scripting language running on over 700,000 Web sites, and PHP's rapid ascent is reflected in its steadfast presence at the top of oreilly.com's search logs over the past year. An open-source, cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology, PHP scripts are embedded within a Web page along with HTML.

This how-to describes how to use Zope to generate WML pages for use by WAP browsers.

As part of a growing movement towards free software, Borland released its JBuilder 3 Foundation Java Integrated Development Environment--or IDE--for free to the Linux, Solaris and Windows worlds.

iPlanet shoots for the high-end market with its expensive but reliable servers. Steven Herbert, product manager for the iPlanet line, discusses corporate strategy with Joe Barr in this week's Version Control.

IBM's retooled supercomputers offer businesses -- and eventually Linux users -- megaprocessing power.