Linux,led by VA-Linux(LNUX)is gaining momentum........
Linux Lines Up More Support From Open
Source Crowd
By Barbara Darrow, Computer Reseller News
Boston
5:20 PM EST Tues., Jan. 04, 2000
Linux, the open-source operating system, got more
support Tuesday.
VA Linux Systems Inc., the Wall Street darling that
specializes in building industry-standard computers and
servers for Linux, unveiled SourceForge, an online
repository for open-source projects that would
theoretically ease collaboration by software developers
at different locations.
The SourceForge initiative already houses more than 700
projects, according to VA Linux, Sunnyvale, Calif.
During seven weeks of testing, more than 3,000
developers from 76 countries registered for the site,
which offers software development and management
tools, VA Linux said. Projects are not limited to the Linux
world. Developers have registered projects for Linux,
BSD, BeOS, Palm OS, and Microsoft Windows.
"VA Linux, in combination with Red Hat, has done a lot
to further the idea of open source with virtual seminars,
giving machines to people," said Dan Kusnetzky,
program director for International Data Corp.,
Framingham, Mass. "This sounds like just another step
in the process."
VA Linux also named Bob Russo, a former executive at
Cray Research, as general manager and executive vice
president of worldwide operations.
In other Linux news, SuSE Inc. said Tuesday it is offering a beta version of SuSE Linux
6.3 available for the Macintosh PowerPC. A free CD with Linux and some applications is
available directly from SuSE, based in Nurnburg, Germany, with North American offices
in Oakland, Calif.
Linux has caught the imagination of many software programmers and other technofiles
but it is unclear how successful it has been in mainstream corporate computing, some
observers said.
But Kusnetzky said IDC market statistics for 1999 to be released later this month show
real growth for the open-source code operating system, not only at the server level but
on the client level as well.
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