[fdn-ann] Additional coverage

["Cecile Roux" <croux chenpr com>]

Hello,
Here is some additional coverage on the GNOME announcement.
Best,
-Cecile


Dow Jones News Service
"Gnome Foundation To Focus On Linux Availability"
August 15,
2000             
Jason Philyaw 
No URL available (see below for full
article)          
                    
Financial Post 
"Linux backers exclude Corel: Competing system: Heavyweights push
simplified method for PC owners" 
Simon Avery 
August 16, 2000 
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000816/371891.html

CNN
"LinuxWorld 2000: GNOME movement gains support"
George A. Chidi Jr.
August 16, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/16/gnome.support.idg/index.html


The Associated Pres
"Calif. Chinook Salmon Bountiful"
August 17, 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/f/AP-Linux-Ascendant.html

The Canadian Press 
"Desktop Gnome initiative boosts Corel stock on renewed Linux hopes"
August 14, 2000 
No URL available (see below for full article)    
             
Redherring.com
"Linux is looking good"
Paul Kapustka
August 16, 2000
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/0816/tech-linuxworld081600.html?id=yahoo

Internet.com
August 15, 2000
"Linux, Linux Everywhere"
Gavin McCormick
http://boston.internet.com/news/article/0,,2001_437721,00.html



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Dow Jones News Service 
"Gnome Foundation To Focus On Linux Availability"
August 15, 2000              
Jason Philyaw 

SAN JOSE -(Dow Jones)- The Gnome project formed the Gnome Foundation, which a board of directors elected by the volunteer developers who contribute to Gnome will govern.

In a press release Tuesday, the Gnome project, a group of Linux software develops and computer makers, said the foundation will help set the technical direction of the project, promote the broad adoption of Gnome on Linux and Unix desktops and offer a forum for industry leaders to contribute to Gnome .

The Gnome project also formed an advisory board for the foundation with members from Compaq Corp. (CPQ), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Red Hat Inc. (RHAT), Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW), Eazel Inc., Free Software Foundation, Gnumatic Inc., d, Helix Code, Henzai, Object Management Group, TurboLinux and VA Linux.

The Gnome project built a free and easy-to-use desktop environment and a powerful application framework for software developers on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, according to the Gnome project.

The foundation will provide organizational, financial and legal support to the project. The Gnome project said CollabNet, a collaborative software development services provider, agreed to help organize the foundation.

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The Canadian Press 
"Desktop Gnome initiative boosts Corel stock on renewed Linux hopes"
August 14, 2000 

OTTAWA (CP) _Corel Corp. and other Linux-driven stocks soared Monday when some big technology players signalled they will support Linux products aimed at attacking Microsoft's desktop empire.

International Business Machines, Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard were set to announce at a Linux industry conference in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday that they will support a new organization, the Gnome Foundation, to set common rules for Linux desktop products.

Corel stock rose 90 cents or 20 per cent to $5.35 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, after a long decline caused by serious financial problems triggered in part by low demand for Linux-based products.

Chief executive Michael Cowpland said the Gnome announcement shows ``we are moving into a big growth area for Linux products.''

Linux, an open-source operating system, has won support in the lucrative and booming market for corporate servers. But despite its flexibility and low cost, it has made only limited impact in the desktop market dominated by Microsoft.

The big computer makers' support of Gnome opens the way to standards for Linux-based word processing, spreadsheet and other software.

``The challenge they face is getting the most popular personal productivity software to run on Linux systems,'' said Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst at IDC, a research firm in Framingham, Mass.

``If the application (consumers) want isn't on Linux, they won't choose Linux.''

Microsoft last year held the lead in new server operating systems shipped last year, with 38 per cent running Windows, while Linux-based systems were second with 25 per cent, IDC says. But Microsoft's Windows runs 88 per cent of all personal computers, while only four per cent use Linux.

In another Linux development Monday, Nitrosoft Linux, a new division of 60-employee Nitrosoft Inc. of Ottawa, said Derick Belair, a former Corel executive, will head a new management-services operation using Linux for small and mid-size corporate systems.