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Lotus announces that it will port Domino to Linux
The Debian Project begins to discuss a potato freeze, with an eye
toward a possible September release.
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Midgard 1.1 is released (announcement here).
The Conference of Australian Linux Users was held in Melbourne, Australia. "People came, they saw, they conquered ... Pizza. (with apologies to John "maddog" Hall). Australia's first ever national Linux conference has drawn to a close and well over two hundred Linux devotees from around Australia and the world have congregated, socialised, fraternised, lectured, listened, asked, answered and shared with their peers ... and munched through (literally) carloads of Pizza. "
Red Hat announces its community stock offering, whereby Linux
developers are given the opportunity to buy Red Hat stock at the IPO
price. Some denounce the offering as spam; others have numerous
difficulties in participating in the program. In the end, participation is
over 80%.
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Oracle releases Oracle8i for Linux, and cites a great deal of interest from the business community.
Caldera Thin Clients becomes Lineo; its emphasis starts to move away from DR-DOS and toward an embedded version of OpenLinux called "Embeddix."
Dataquest predicts that Linux will account for a quarter of all server appliance sales by 2003.
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Sure, the friction between individual companies will no doubt continue, and
the sniping may reach hitherto unimagined intensity as the dollar amounts
involved continue to rise; but again, that's only natural, and nothing to
be afraid of. There's always the safety of free software -- the first, last
and best weapon preventing any company in the Linux world from permanently
calling the tune to which everyone else dances.
Andrew Leonard, Salon |
The Netscape Application Server will not be available for Linux after all the Sun/Netscape alliance announces.
The Ottawa Linux Symposium is held in, surprisingly, Ottawa. (Summary report here).
IBM announces Linux support services, effectively ending the (already pointless) "no support" charges against Linux.
IBM released DB2 for Linux (Hype page here).
VA Linux Systems announces its support services.
TurboLinux claims to have outsold Windows in Japan - at least briefly.
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