Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that their completed Reference Implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) has been accepted under the Java Community Process (JCP) and is now available for free download at the TimeSys website, here. (more…)

Stephen Shankland of CNET reports that IBM believes it has already nearly recouped the $1 billion it claims to have invested in Linux during 2001. Shankland writes . . . ” (more…)

[Updated Jan. 29, 2002] At this week's LinuxWorld in New York, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) unveiled a range of new Linux-based products and services targeting the Internet infrastructure, telecommunications, and network equipment provider markets. These include a family of Linux-based “carrier grade” servers and a developer's kit for HP Opencall software. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Today, eclipse.org made a fully functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment available for evaluation with the eclipse platform on Linux workstations. The C/C++ tools, which complement existing Java language support, make the eclipse platform the first full function, tightly integrated, multi-language tools environment available as open source. (more…)

New York and Paris; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced MontaVista Linux 2.1, the next generation of the company's classic embedded operating platform. The feature-rich release enables an even broader range of embedded applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation and… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Sun Microsystems, Inc. has signed an agreement with Lineo, Inc. to adapt and support Lineo's embedded Linux operating system products to run on UltraSPARC IIe-processor based end user-developed custom hardware. Lineo is working to create a full-featured UltraSPARC IIe processor-focused software development kit complete with the Lineo Embedix operating system. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — Recent analysis by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) confirms what telecommunications pundits have prophesized for years — network convergence is upon us. However, the research also suggests that the transition to packet telephony will be a lengthy and perpetual one. (more…)

Sharp's new Linux-based Zaurus PDA is expected to begin hitting retail shelves this March for a list price $549, a company source told LinuxDevices.com. The model name will be “Zaurus SL-5500”, and it will include 64MB of RAM memory and 16MB of built-in Flash storage memory (in contrast to pre-production devices… (more…)

CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports on Ximian's decision to change the license of Mono, the project to provide an open source alternative to Microsoft's .NET. Ximian, observes Shankland, appears to have made a philosophical shift, in moving from the GNU GPL to the less-restrictive MIT X11 open source license. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release excerpt) — TeraLogic, Inc. today announced the Cougar-L Linux Digital TV Platform, which is based on TeraLogic's TL851 Universal Decoder and TL811 “Gateway” PVR Controller chips. With Cougar-L, TeraLogic broadens the operating system options of its Cougar Platform, the most successful DTV platform ever launched, to include Linux. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Borland Software Corporation today unveiled its strategy to extend rapid application development (RAD) to the C++ language in 2002. Analyst firm IDC estimates there are more than 2.6 million C++ developers, making C++ the world's most widely used development language. (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release excerpt) — Ximian Inc. today announced a change in licensing by the Mono Project. With this change, the class libraries produced by Mono, an open source community initiative to deliver a Linux and UNIX compatible version of the Microsoft .NET development framework, will be released under the X11 software license, rather than the GNU General Public License (GPL). (more…)

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is holding a press conference at LinuxWorld in New York, next week. The lab issued a brief news advisory indicating that it will announce “new members and significant new activity in support of Carrier Grade and Data Center Linux”, and will be held at 11:00 a.m. (more…)

Monrovia, CA — (press release excerpt) — ParaSoft, a provider of error-prevention software tools, announced the release of C++Test v2.0, their automatic unit testing tool for C and C++ developers. C++Test assists developers in building reliable software by automating the difficult, tedious, and time-consuming unit testing process. (more…)

As if the Desktop Linux Revolution weren't enough, Wasabi Systems, Inc. (NY, NY) will unveil what is being described as the “first commercial NetBSD boxed set” at LinuxWorld next week. Wasabi's new product is called the NetBSD 1.5.2 Package Release for Desktops, and “comes ready to install, in a nice friendly box complete with CDs and a manual,” said Wasabi founder and CEO Perry Metzger. (more…)