By Stephen Shankland, staff writer of CNET News.com reports that two Web sites for helping companies fund open-source programming projects launched their sites within two days of each other, this week. (more…)

The first Linux Investment Portal is now open for business. This portal is designed for the serious long term Linux investor. As the Wall Street buzz surrounding Linux continues to grow, it is critical that sound investing information concerning Linux/Open Source opportunities be made available. (more…)

Ronny Ko, in an article at 32BitsOnline.com, writes . . .

“Sun Microsystems today apologized to the Blackdown Open Source community that ported the Java SDK to Linux. 'Our stance is an apologetic one,' said Rick Schultz, Java 2 standard edition product manager at Sun.” (more…)

MARKHAM, ON — Unique Broadband Systems, Inc. today unveiled its development of “RealLinux”, a real-time open-source operating system based on Linux. Unique Broadband Systems' CEO, Alex Dolgonos, says “RealLinux is targeted to the global embedded hardware industry, and is especially focused on high speed 'industrial' processors such as Motorola's PowerPC and 68030, Intel's i960, and selected… (more…)

FREMONT, Calif. — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., maker of the popular DiskOnChip flash disk (used in many embedded Linux applications), today announced that DiskOnChip Millennium has been named as a top-performer in the EE Product News' 1999 Products of the Year competition published in the December 1999 issue. (more…)

Ashley Dunn, of the Los Angeles Times, has just published an interesting interview with Linux Torvalds . . . (more…)

New York, NY — Java Business Conference — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced its plans to ship a Linux version of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). The union of the Java 2 platform and Linux satisfies a growing desire among developers to utilize the power of the Java 2 platform with the popular open source Linux operating system. (more…)

Will Knight of ZDNet-UK writes: “Cambridge technology firm Amino Communications has developed what it claims is world's smallest ever Linux system, optimised to function in Internet enabled set-top boxes, Web phones, and other embedded devices.” (more…)

The recent Linux “acquisition feeding frenzy” continues, as Coollogic, Inc. (Dallas, TX) announces that it has acquired ON Channel, Inc. (Davis, Calif.), a leader in embedded Linux development, for an undisclosed sum. Both companies are privately held. ON Channel also is announcing today that it has released — and is actually shipping — one of the first commercial “real-world” embedded Linux… (more…)

Dave, of LinuxTopia.com writes . . . “Once people begin using home automation, they will begin to depend on it. There will be a need for newer products, and better services. This is a need that Linux can fill nicely. Microsoft does not have a product that can perform the same tasks for anywhere near the same price. (more…)

REDMOND, WA — Cosource.com, the Cooperative Marketplace for Open Source, today announced the official launch of their e-commerce site for users and developers of Open Source software. The launch comes at the end of their beta testing period, during which four separate projects were completed. (more…)

In response to a number of requests from leading companies in the embedded Linux market, Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com has put together a proposal for an Embedded Linux Consortium. The goal of the nonprofit multi-vendor organization, would be to proliferate the use of Linux in embedded applications as rapidly as possible. (more…)

The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) professional team has been founded. The team has two members: Jaroslav Kysela from Czech Republic, the ALSA team leader; and Abramo Bagnara from Italy. These members are employed by SuSE to work full-time on the ALSA project. (more…)

EE Times, in an story by Chappel Brown, reports that Endgate Corporation has developed a multi-processor system based on Linux, capable of dramatically reducing the time required to model complex analog systems such as optimal antenna shape designs. Predictions of antenna performance are based on highly complex multi-variable computations which can take weeks, even months, of computation using conventional… (more…)

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Cygnus Solutions, a leader in open source software, today announced the release of Source-Navigator version 4.5, an advanced source code
comprehension tool for software developers to understand, re-engineer, and migrate complex code faster. Cygnus, which recently announced a merger agreement with Red Hat, Inc., offers Source-Navigator 4.5 in two versions. (more…)