Las Vegas, NV; Network-Interop — (press release excerpt) — QNX Software Systems and IP Infusion today announced an alliance that will enable networking OEMs to achieve unprecedented scalability and capacity in their products. The two companies have already begun to collaborate on integrating the ZebOS Advanced Routing Suite with the QNX real-time OS. (more…)

ZDNet columnist Leibovitch ponders Microsoft's recent “May Day Manifesto” — and wonders if anyone really cares what the software giant has to say on the subject of open source and the GPL . . . (more…)

New England startup Memora Corp. is attempting to create a new product category — the “personal server” — and hopes to thereby grab the leadership position in that niche. A name reminiscent of “personal computer,” the term “personal server” is meant to convey the idea of an appliance-like device that performs a range of useful services and can be easily installed and operated by nontechnical end users… (more…)

Not unexpectedly, the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today joined the chorus of reactions to Microsoft's recent critique of open source software. Here is the text of the ELC announcement . . . (more…)

Axis Communications has just released its version of Linux 2.4 for developers designing systems based on the company's newest system-on-chip (SOC) processor, the ETRAX 100LX. The new OS version includes all the standard enhancements resulting from the Linux 2.4 kernel; it also offers full support for new features within the ETRAX 100LX, such as the internal MMU (memory management unit) and USB ports. (more…)

Apex, NC — (press release excerpt) — Embedded development just got easier with the introduction of the new low power MZ104 from Tri-M systems and EMJ Embedded. The MZ104 is a 586 133MHz PC/104 single board computer (SBC) with extremely low power consumption. Its design provides for ease of integration and reliability, and it is ideally suited to applications where low power is required for long battery… (more…)

In response to statements delivered by Craig Mundie, Senior VP of Microsoft, to the Stern School of Business students at New York University, LynuxWorks has issued the following statement . . . (more…)

For the third year, LogOn Technology Transfer will be organizing a series of Linux events throughout Europe called [email protected] These 1-day, city-to-city events, will take place in several European venues in 2001:

[email protected] Oslo May 9, 2001
[email protected] Stockholm May 10, 2001
[email protected] Helsinki May 11, 2001
[email protected] Frankfurt May 15, 2001
[email protected] Zurich May 16, 2001
[email protected]… (more…)

Red Hat, Inc. today announced Red Hat TechWorld, a technical conference aimed at bringing Red Hat customers and open source developers and advocates together for a variety of educational and technical tracks. The first of these global events will be held at the Brussels Expo, in Brussels, Belgium on September 17 and 18, 2001. (more…)

Lineo, Inc. is delivering a series of technical courses on embedded Linux development at its recently-opened Embedded Systems Center in San Mateo, CA. Three courses will be delivered: Embedded Linux Programming with uClinux, Real-Time Programming in a Linux Environment, and Embedded Linux Programming with the Embedix SDK. (more…)

By Richard Shim; special to ZDNet . . .

Linux is finding another inroad into the computing world besides PCs and servers. (more…)

ZDNet columnist Stephan Somogyi wrote this lengthy and insightful commentary about the recent attack by Microsoft on open source software . . . (more…)

ZDNet UK's Will Knight writes . . .

Supporters of the open source movement are lining up to combat a campaign that Microsoft is expected to launch today rubbishing the idea of giving away and sharing computer code.

Senior vice president of Microsoft, Craig Mundie, is expected to launch the anti-open source campaign in a speech to be given… (more…)

Andrew Josey, Director of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, reports on the most recent session of the Forum . . . (more…)

In this essay, Bruce Perens, senior advisor for Hewlett-Packard and the primary author of the Open Source Definition, offers a perspective on software patents, the fundamental problems with them, and the hazard that they present to Free Software development. Also included, is a discussion on the upcoming summit meeting Perens has called on Free Software and The Law. (more…)