CodeWeavers, who provide support for the Wine project, has opened a Wine Application Database, where users can list and rate Win32 applications.

Analysts said Rogers Interactive TV, launched last November on Microsoft's WebTV software platform, may be upstaged by what appears to be a faster and more flexible service that's based on the rival Linux operating system. Rogers' decision to test out the Ucentric technology, first announced on May 10, is the latest sign that Microsoft may be losing support for its WebTV platform.

Gates observed that Microsoft routinely shares the source code for its Windows operating system with its partners. In addition, the company uses some open-source software in its Hotmail e-mail service. While he has no objection to open-source development efforts, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is concerned about the "Pac-Man-like nature" of the license that governs the distribution of such software.

Red Hat, Inc. the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source solutions, has reported revenue of $25.6 million for the first quarter ended May 31, 2001, an increase of 18% versus the $21.7 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 and a decrease of 5% over the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001.

Radical Net programmers are committed to building a wholly anonymous, virtually untraceable way of communicating and trading files online. Chief among these is Freenet, an open-source project viewed by many as the ultimate inheritor to Napster's original promise of free online file swapping. For the first time, the largely volunteer effort has hired a paid staffer, Swedish student Oskar Sandberg, who will get $2500 for two months of work, using funds from an online donation pool.

With this validation, SuSE Linux has broadened its enterprise directives to reach a wide audience of IT customers committed to deploying the extensive e-business infrastructure provided through Oracle9i Database. In addition, at Oracle OpenWorld in Berlin, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters running on SuSE Linux is being shown in Network Appliance's booth as well as in Intel's booth.

Compaq has affirmed its affinities with Linux by announcing a handful of new programs including a "Tru64 Affinity Program" that aims to provide application and management compatibility between machines running in a mixed Tru64/Linux environment, and by making its "single system image" technology (SSI) available to Linux under a "GPL-like" license.

GNOME 2.0 Release Manager Martin Baulig's resignation from his position was part of a broader, more extended conflict within the GNOME developer community. Havoc Pennington has written a document, currently under discussion, that addresses the dynamics that caused the conflict to become so protracted and proposes ways to mend them. Entitled `GNOME Enhancement Procedure,' the document is centered around "recommendations for how to review changes within modules. It covers changes to libraries and APIs, and also major UI changes and the like," writes Pennington in the document's introduction.

The first release of Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT for Beta 2 of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET are solutions that allow developers to edit, debug and run programs written in Perl, Python and XSLT in the Visual Studio.NET IDE.

This release has an experimental all-in-one-tarball feature. The gtk+-all-1.3.6.tar.gz/ file contains all four GTK+ libraries (GLib, Pango, Atk, GTK+) and can be compiled with a single

"configure; make; make install" sequence.