thekompany.com releases Rekall, Oct 22, 2001

theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 0.6 release of Rekall , a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The objective of this release is to be feature complete prior to the conversion to Qt from KDE. We have also added an integrated debugger to the Python as well as fixing bugs. Our current timeline has a 1.0 release available in late November 2001.

Red Hat Inc.today announced that Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Linux Professional are now available in stores, through computer resellers and direct from Red Hat.

MandrakeSoft, the publisher of the powerful and user-friendly Mandrake Linux operating system, announces the immediate availability of boxed sets of Mandrake Linux Version 8.1 in retail outlets throughout the world and on www.mandrakestore.com.

As eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli has reported over the past several weeks, many IT administrators are either not planning to upgrade to the new Microsoft products or looking to switch to less expensive products—a direct result of the licensing plans, they said.

If new software is needed, but not the costs or headaches of dealing with the new Microsoft licenses, some are taking renewed looks at Linux and Sun's StarOffice desktop productivity suite. Sun notes that users downloaded the latest beta of StarOffice in record numbers since it debuted earlier this month.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc will launch a Linux-enabled version of its PlayStation 2 in the U.S. market, an executive from the company said Monday.

In the opening keynote at the Rambus Developer Forum here, Shin'ichi Okamoto, senior vice president and chief technical officer said that although he couldn't provide a U.S. release date yet, "we'll be able to announce it soon."

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