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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   19 Jul 2001  16:52:57
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago: Bruce Perens [15]announced that the Debian Project and
    the FSF had patched up their differences and would resume cooperation
    - though there would be no further FSF sponsorship of Debian. To mark
    the new atmosphere, Debian once again started calling its distribution
    "GNU/Linux."
    
    Three years ago ([16]July 23, 1998 LWN): Oracle announced support for
    Linux. Computer Associates (Ingres) and Informix had announced Linux
    support earlier in the year. This [17]ZDNet article echoed some common
    sentiments:
    
      A Linux evangelist said a port of an enterprise-size database such
      as Oracle would help lend credibility to Linux in the eyes of
      business managers.
      
    Linus made clear his position that 4MB machines would no longer be a
    development priority or interest for the 2.1.X development tree.
    Nowadays, finding a PC with only 4MB of memory might be difficult.
    Even projects such as [18]TINY Linux, which is designed especially for
    old, recycled computers, requires at least 8MB (but still supports the
    i386 chip).
    
    The release of perl 5.005 was imminent. Perl 5.7.2 has just been
    released.
    
    Two years ago ([19]July 22, 1999 LWN): The biggest news was Red Hat's
    announcement of a community stock offering. Some viewed it with
    suspicion; an effort to get more people to buy stock and drive up the
    price or maybe just spam from an unexpected source. In addition, the
    list of people Red Hat put together accidently left off a lot of
    important contributors.
    
    Nonetheless, in the long run, a lot of people made a little bit of
    unexpected money as a result and the offering set a precedent for
    including the community that was later followed by the VA Linux and
    Caldera IPOs. None of them went perfectly or smoothly, but again, at
    least some people got an unexpected bonus for the work they had done
    gratis for so long.
    
    On a slightly different note, Red Hat unveiled more of its IPO plans,
    including a major investment in developing their 'web portal'. Plans
    included the hiring of over 20 people, setting up their own news
    service and much more. Of course, nowadays that has gone by the
    wayside and Red Hat is looking in much different fields (such as
    embedded Linux) for new revenue models.
    
    Caldera Thin Clients reinvented itself as Lineo.
    
    One year ago ([20]July 20, 2000 LWN): Miguel de Icaza gave his "Unix
    sucks" speech at the Ottawa Linux Symposium.
    
    Sun announced that StarOffice would be released under the GPL.
    
    SCO released flagging financial results, creating rumors of how Linux
    might save the failing UnixWare business. [21]Forbes noted that SCO
    had been selling support services for Caldera and TurboLinux, but
    inaccurately predicted that the company would strike a deal with
    MandrakeSoft. This [22]article in OSOpinion speculated:
    
      The most likely scenario seems to have SCO spinning off Tarantella
      (probably as an immediate acquisition target), and looking for a
      Linux vendor to merge with the rest. If they could find some more
      VC cash, I think that TurboLinux could be a fairly straightforward
      candidate, as they could hone their focus in on Linux clustering,
      already their strongest point and a very promising market niche.
      
    ZDNet had better inside information as [23]this article accurately
    predicted:
    
      Caldera Systems, a leading Linux distributor, is on the verge of
      buying SCO's Server--aka, Unix--division for a price expected to be
      north of $70 million in stock, according to multiple sources
      claiming familiarity with terms of the deal in progress.
      
    Section Editor: [24]Rebecca Sobol.
    July 19, 2001
    
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 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mjrauhal/linux/cola.archive/1996-07/cola.1996-07-24.
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   16. http://lwn.net/1998/0723/
   17. http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/news/0720/20morac.html
   18. http://tiny.seul.org/
   19. http://lwn.net/1999/0722/
   20. http://lwn.net/2000/0720/
   21. http://www.forbes.com/2000/07/12/mu3.html
   22. http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski7.html
   23. http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2605191,00.html
   24. mailto:lwn@lwn.net
   25. http://lwn.net/1999/features/1998timeline/
   26. http://lwn.net/1999/features/Timeline/
   27. http://lwn.net/2000/features/Timeline/
   28. http://lwn.net/2001/0719/letters.php3
   29. http://www.eklektix.com/
   30. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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