PlugSys's Max 2.0 Free Edition, the 32-bit Xbase compiler for Linux and Windows providing free registration to application developers worldwide, provides unlimited DBF access-at no cost to the developer or the organization using the application. To ensure scalability, Max also connects to all popular SQL databases.

Mundie questioned the wisdom of commercial and government entities embracing GPL'd software, claiming that by doing so, they could find their own intellectual property no longer protected by law. Caldera has some similar misgivings -- not about the GPL model being the optimal one for open-source development, but about how appropriate the GPL is for open-source software that is sold commercially. As a result, Caldera is seriously looking at and considering different models like BSD and others that would be truly open source but still allow folks to influence the (development) process.

Do you currently do any work in Linux or do you plan to do some work in the future?

At LightSurf for our ASP and MSP services to companies such as Kodak and others we actually use Linux extensively. We are the leaders for end-to-end infrastructure for Multimedia Wireless Communications.

What is your perception about Linux? What do you think Linux currently lacks technically that if added, can make it more successful then it already is?

Nessus is an extemely versatile and efficient application that not only identifies nasty vulnerabilities that could be exploited, but tells you how to prevent hackers from taking advantage of your system, and even gives you a risk level for each vulnerability it discovers. There are an infinite number of ways that it can be configured and utilized. Heres a quick and easy step-by-step guide to getting Nessus up and running on your system.

John Everitt has some questions about the "Shared Source" philosophy, like who owns the improvements you make, and how much you'll end up paying to take advantage of the corporate adherent's largesse when you set out to build that five inch orange zombie that repeatedly says "Where Do You Want To Go Today?" as it marches around the screen. He sums up saying shared source is rather like a salmon swimming up stream only to have its young sold back by a third party for profit,

A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager is available. There have been tons of improvements since Nautilus 1.0.2 was released including UI tweaks, and enhancements, and a modification necessary to allow the package to build against Mozilla 0.9.

This month in the SPECweb99 results, Windows 2000 Datacenter scored 8001 conforming connections compared to 7500 conforming connections using Red Hat Linux running the TUX 2.0 accellerated web server. These scores were achieved on nearly identical 8 CPU Dell PowerEdge 8450/700 servers. Linux has performed better than Windows NT for about a year now in the SPECweb99 results and even lead the whole pack for a while.

In this paper Waldo Bastian brings to attention an important performance bottleneck in the ld.so linker on GNU/Linux systems wrt C++ programs. He offers some suggestions for improvement and hopes that this paper will lead to a discussion in the GNU/Linux community that eventually will lead to

a solution that addresses this problem. According to him the problem is that ld.so wasn't designed for todays Linux Desktop.

RLX Technologies has joined the growing crowd of vendors making strides toward ultra-dense, power-efficient servers with the release of its RLX 324 Web server.RLX 324 is a turnkey solution designed to fit into an enterprise's established environment with minimal configuration. Enterprises have the option of configuring ServerBlades to work with Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux. Both are preloaded and carry a wide assortment of preloaded tools to simplify deployment and improve ease of use.

While Microsoft pours buckets of vitriol over open source, some of its most distinguished former executives are backing Linux. Eric Engstrom was one of a number of key management who departed as the MS anti-trust trial wore on. He started and led the Direct X project, was general manager at MSN, and testified on behalf of the Evil Empire in the trial. Now, with a group of former Redmond colleagues, he's backing Linux.