LinuxWorld press release summary [LWN.net]

Here's a selection from the LinuxWorld press release flood.

Novell has five releases; these discuss the SUSE EAL3 certification, the availability of Red Carpet Enterprise for IBM zSeries servers, Novell exteNd 5 (a secure web services platform), an open beta of GroupWise 6.5 for Linux, and finally, Novell is joining Eclipse.
JBoss has proclaimed a major increase in JBoss server usage and announced the availability of the "Nukes" content management system.
LynuxWorks has announced the general availability of BlueCat Linux 5.0, which includes a 2.6 kernel.
Predixis has announced the availability of "MusicMagic Mixer," a tool for organizing digital music files.
RealNetworks has announced five recipients of funds from the "Helix Community Grant Program." Supported work includes multicast functionality, Ogg codec integration, and three other projects.
Sun has announced a cheaper version of the Java Desktop for schools. Also announced is a new Java Desktop release, a Linux-based "Java Enterprise System" server offering, a preview of an upcoming developer-oriented desktop system, and a new community site for Linux Java developers.
SYS-CON Media announces the winners of the LinuxWorld magazine Readers' Choice awards. LinuxWorld readers apparently have a strong fondness for proprietary applications.
Tadpole Computer now offers a notebook running Sun's Java Desktop.

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LinuxWorld Magazine "Readers"

Posted Jan 21, 2004 20:42 UTC (Wed) by remijnj (guest, #5838) [Link] (1 responses)

Best Linux Programming Environment
Winner
IBM WebSphere Studio Workbench
IBM
www.ibm.com

I can't imagine most programmers will favor this over vi/gcc. So the following questions come to mind.

How many readers does Linuxworld Magazine have and how many voted for these awards?

I myself have never seen this magazine (i don't live in the US so maybe this is a local thing).
Just found their website and on their website i see it's only published twice a year. What a joke.

LinuxWorld Magazine "Readers"

Posted Jan 22, 2004 11:51 UTC (Thu) by ayeomans (guest, #1848) [Link]

In similar surveys elsewhere, it costs money to nominate a product into the voting list. I don't know if this was the case for Sys-Con, but if so it would explain a bias against free products.