Backers pour cash into Linux servers, Jun 28, 2002

Egenera, a maker of high-end specialized Linux servers, has received $44 million from earlier investors in a third round of funding.

Taking a cue from the go-go Internet bubble years, Egenera will use the funding for faster global expansion, said Debbie Miller, a computer industry veteran who became the company's new chief executive in April.

The words 'Microsoft' and 'trust' only really seem to fit together with the help of an 'anti' somewhere in the middle. I find it somewhat odd therefore, to find this particular company proposing the development of a 'trusted computer platform'.

People's reasons for attending the sessions were as diverse as the sessions. Some were self-professed Microsoft-haters driven to Linux because of Windows' instability. Some were already running Linux and wanted to learn more about it. Others went because they're looking for cheaper software that's free of Microsoft's licensing fees.

The City of Dortmund is providing its 600,000 citizens with rapid and easy access to government services with the new Linux- and Internet-based system, which is officially launched Wednesday by IBM and the City of Dortmund.

IBM has contributed two Web services technologies to the Apache Software Foundation to advance the development and adoption of Web services in the open source Latest News about open source community.

The new WebSphere Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Web Services will make it easier for developers to take advantage of the latest in Web services technology to design and create Web services for integrating companies, customers, suppliers and employees over the Internet in heterogeneous environments.

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