Edupage, August 04, 2004

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 04, 2004
  IBM Donates Software to Open-Source Group
  HP Tests Demand for Linux Notebook PC
  National Archives Chooses Design Finalists
  Phishers Target Presidential Campaign Contributors
  321 Studios Gives Up
  Singapore Plans Hacker Contest

IBM DONATES SOFTWARE TO OPEN-SOURCE GROUP
IBM will provide more than half a million lines of its software code
for the Cloudscape database to open-source software group the Apache
Software Foundation. The company's goal reportedly is to make it
easier for software developers to write applications in the Java
programming language. IBM is a leading supporter of Java, originally
developed by Sun Microsystems. The IBM software platform WebSphere runs
and manages such Java-based applications, competing with Microsoft's
Net platform, written in C++.
New York Times, 3 August 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/technology/03java.html

HP TESTS DEMAND FOR LINUX NOTEBOOK PC
Hewlett-Packard announced the test launch of a Linux-based notebook
computer to evaluate demand for products that come with the open-source
operating system. Key functionality, such as wireless networking, is