Red Hat sets buyback program, Sep 17, 2001

Red Hat joins dozens of U.S. companies initiating or increasing repurchase programs in the aftermath of last week's attacks in New York and Washington. The company's shares were off 19 cents, or 6.1 percent, at $2.93. Earlier, it set a fresh year low at $2.40.

The just-completed worldwide survey of Linux developers shows a high commitment to the Web Services concept and implementation of Web Services. Web Services are Internet applications designed to interoperate across the Web with other Internet applications. These applications are modular and can be combined to provide unique functionality.

The world's biggest semiconductor company Intel Corp. will supply 250,000 Web access devices that Spain's biggest bank, Banco Santander Central Hispano , is set to offer to clients with America Online Inc. , which Intel and others hope could jump-start the nascent industry.

The Dot.Station runs the Linux operating system and uses a Mozilla Web browser.

IBM today announced major Linux initiatives aimed at speeding the ability of Asia Pacific customers and key software vendors to increase productivity within the Linux operating environment.

IDG World Expo has announced that Debian is the recipient of the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award. Linus Torvalds and Charlie Greco, president and CEO of IDG World Expo will present the $25,000 award at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, following Michael Dell's keynote address on Tuesday, August 15

Bluepoint Linux Software Corp. has announced that it has successfully developed "Bluepoint Embedded", the embedded solution for Internet appliances.

MySQL has been re-licensed under the GNU General Public License