A look at how two companies are making money, in spite of the fact that they give away the source code to their software products. eGrail is doing it with a website content management application, while Zero-Knowledge is prospering with client-side Internet privacy software. And it's not all about selling services.

Five years ago, open source databases were not on most IT professionals' radar but today they are making enough blips to keep a full staff of flight controllers busy.

Even as Big Blue pushes Linux into the mainstream, some executives from major Linux companies are grumbling behind the scenes."Linux helps IBM sell things, but IBM doesn't really help the Linux companies," says a senior executive at one Linux firm.

"Red Hat is now targeting the key OEMs in this space to enable them to develop fully supported, robust, scalable and secure products on the Linux platform that will keep their product live and their brand strong. We are in a unique position to do this thanks to smart acquisitions and investments in the open source market."

This article will cover several major points related to an open source BIOS. What does the BIOS do? What's good or bad about an open source BIOS?

The latest DB2 Linux/mainframe announcements, combined with the Small Business Suite thrust, create a coherent marketing strategy designed to get businesses to start using Linux -- on the low end, the high end, and in the middle.

This article looks at some of the old windows managers -- mwm and olwm. Olwm has been around longer than mwm has but it has been replaced now by the latter and is not under development.

See if this article tempts you to try upgrading to NetBSD 1.5. The author lists the newly supported platforms and other update information, such as the over 1600 available packages, the latest changes and improvements to the filesystem, and much more!

This paper provides a short comparison and overview of six word

processor programs which run on Unix, specifically FreeBSD:

AbiWord, Applix Words, FrameMaker, KWord, StarWriter, and

WordPerfect. The goal is to save time for others looking for a word

processor by guiding them to the most likely preferred products

first.

Geez, can't anyone make money in Open Source? When enthusiasts like

LinuxWorld's Nick Petreley begin to wonder, then you know there's trouble

ahead. But people are making money in Open Source, investors are still wild

about some Open Source companies, and Open Source is winning some big

markets