Linux Lab Gets New Support, Two Projects, Jan 23, 2001

Two initial projects have been approved. One is dedicated to increasing Linux TCP/IP concurrent support from 20,000 to more than 40,000 connections. The second is focused on scaling Linux to support applications running on 16- and 64-way systems

The Open Source Development Laboratory has added six new members -- Computer Associates International Inc.; Fujitsu; Hitachi LTD ; Covalent Inc.; Mitsubishi Electric; and Miracle Linux.

Corel is not leaving Linux behind -- it plans to keep a financial interest in the company that eventually buys the spun-off business.

Corel Corp. is weeks away from selling its desktop Linux computer operating system business for $15 million to New York-based Linux Global Partners, a source close to the deal told Reuters on Tuesday.

Transvirtual Technologies has released its first version of Linux for handheld computers and other small devices

Driving this heightened interest in mainframe Linux are the spiraling costs associated with buying and managing the mushrooming number of departmental Unix-and Windows NT-based servers. During the past few years, these systems took over the running of key Web-based applications now central to corporate users' competitive strategies.

Herb Hinstorff currently heads Sun's program office for Linux and Open Source. In this interview he talks about what Sun is doing for Linux and the Open Source community. Also touched upon is the issue of Java being open-sourced and the release of Solaris code.

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