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To: Captain Jack who wrote (84190)	8/14/2000 10:03:56 AM
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Snippets of possible interest from a Research Report rec'd this am: LinuxWorld Conference and Expo will begin today in San Jose. The most significant announcement is likely to be the formation of the Gnome Foundation. The Gnome software has been gaining momentum as a desktop user interface similar to Windows and as a standard development environment. HP, IBM, and Sun are expected to support this initiative. Sun's Star Office desktop productivity software is to run on this platform, and Sun will reportedly adopt Gnome as its standard desktop user interface for its Solaris operating system. We believe the Gnome effort is an important consolidation effort that will begin to build competition on the desktop, but a steep climb against entrenched MSFT. The NY Times reports that IBM, Compaq, HP, Sun and several other major computer vendors will announce support tomorrow for the expected creation of the Gnome Foundation - consolidation of efforts among various Linux organizations around a common graphical user interface similar to Windows. The organization is expected to announce a set of initiatives and unified user interface and set of personal productivity programs intended to compete as a free alternative to Microsoft Windows and Office. Michael