Wired has an article today discussing Linux's recent gains against the Mac OS and Windows platforms, expected to widen with the release of Linux-loaded offerings from HP and Dell.

One real life example of a successful deployment of open source software can be found at the Weather Channel's web site, weather.com Today, millions of pages will be served to web surfers looking for their local forecast by open source solutions and the folks at the Weather Channel are seeing many benefits of their migration from proprietary solutions to open source solutions.  Computerworld today has an informative article on the Weather Channel's experience.

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today describing the savings that some organizations, including Electronic Arts, are realizing by migrating to Linux and other Open Source Software solutions: "Electronic Arts saved 35 percent on the cost of the computer servers it uses to host its online gaming site when it replaced 2,000 machines with 800 new ones that run on Linux."

In their heyday, Novell was the main competition to Microsoft's NT platform. Last week the company purchased SuSE Linux in what most see as an effort to regain the marketshare it lost against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

A visual history of Unix has been unleashed on an unsuspecting populace, thanks to Éric Lévénez; the way I see it, things started getting pretty crazy around 1977! And who knew Steve Jobs was so admired!

A new print magazine debuts today: LinuxWorld, as you might imagine, is "dedicated to explaining Linux and other open source solutions and helping IT/IS managers and business leaders chart their course toward open source as a cost-effective and secure addition to their present IT mix."