Linux users are lucky and have a wealth of choices and options in being able to prepare and managing XML data through availability of tools. With an ever-increasing demand for standardisation and data exchange and with a need for seamless integration with disparate database structures, can Linux capitalise on the growing corporate marketplace, or is it too late?

"Open source databases can't compete with the commercial databases in all categories," said Michael "Monty" Widenius, co-founder and main author of MySQL. "We do, however, compete in many of the strategic categories and, as the products expand, we will start to compete in the categories that have traditionally been reserved for the commercial databases," he said.

"This document provides some background on the way we have developed GNOME in the past, the integration work that lies ahead and outlines the problems that we might run into if we are not careful with the goals we set for GNOME 2.0."

The Linux kernel is the center of every Linux distribution. The source code which goes into it is very special -- any bugs it has will affect every part of the system, perhaps even destroying the work of the user. How do changes happen inside of it? How are decisions made about the direction that the kernel will take?

"The Internet and a program called Linux changed the rules of the game ? and gave IBM a new set of rules to master. In this game, keeping secrets is forbidden and winning means helping the competition."

The IBM S/390 has received the most attention from the Linux community, after it was announced that David Boyes at Dimension Enterprises had run 41,400 separate instances of Linux simultaneously on one mainframe machine before it ran out of resources.

"Linux represents the next step in this e-business evolution. Linux will do for software what the Internet did for networks. Linux is all about application connectivity. And this is why we say Linux is for real and Linux is ready for real business."

"Like LPI, Sair divides the mastery of Linux into three levels. To become certified at each level, you must pass four exams (available through Prometric testing centers). As of this writing, only the first level--"Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator" (LCA)--is available."

There is a growing body of work on how to effectively manage XML data in hierarchical, relational, and object databases. Hierarchical databases are often considered the most natural representation because XML itself is a hierarchy of elements and character data.

Welcome to New York, financial capital of the world. Linux isn't here to run some little web server--banks and other financial institutions are one good proposal and a couple of meetings away from rolling it out in their data centers.