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According to the Guidelines to the Development of the Software Industry promulgated by the Ministry of Information Industry earlier this year, China will encourage innovations in integrated circuits and software, and focus on government procurement, property rights trade, software export, foreign investment attraction, embedded software certification and Chinese Linux platforms in 2004.

Spreadsheet development has more or less solidified over the past year -- the majority of the features that most people need are already there in long-established proprietary programs like Excel and Lotus 123 -- and that means that the door is open for smaller companies and free software projects to grab market share with capable, inexpensive products. That's probably the best way to describe SoftMaker's $49.95 PlanMaker 2004 for Linux, which was released earlier this month: capable, inexpensive, cross-platform competition for Microsoft Excel 2003. You won't find a more Excel-compatible spreadsheet on any operating system, but Microsoft compatibility is far from PlanMaker's only worthwhile feature.

Chris Dunphy wrote a nice four page KDE 3.2.1 Review in March which we obviously missed and which imo hasn't received the attention it deserves yet. On the other side we were notified by "illogic-al" that he has written a short "What's New, KDE 3.3 Preview" based on KDE 3.3 Alpha. The first KDE 3.3 Beta with more completed features is expected to be released in about one week.

A well-written guide that explains how Postfix's features reflect its design and what they can do for your system.

PHP 5 is a very popular point for discussion within the PHP community. With the third Release Candidate released on the 8th of June and the Zend PHP 5 Coding Contest, it is easy to see that the full stable release of PHP 5 is just around the corner. At this very late stage of development, I managed to obtain an interview with the two original creators of PHP and Zend - Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans - to find out more about their lives as developers of possibly the most popular Web programming language ever!

Linux company Red Hat has begun selling new software for creating a communal storage system that spans many devices in a network--part of its effort to expand beyond its core operating system business.

A US COMPANY has dreamed up a system that runs all those ancient Windows programs you might have lying around, but on a Linux machine. The downside is that it only runs the Windows 95, 98 and ME applications and it has to be done using some special kit.

South Africa's CSIR yesterday formally opened a new dedicated open source centre(OSC) at the Mogalakwena HP i-community centre in the Limpopo province in South Africa. The new centre, established by the CSIR's Meraka project, is intended to demonstrate how open source software can be used in rural and community environments.

As the founder of the free software movement, I would like to correct inaccuracies and confusions in your June 10 article about my speech at Portland State University.

By launching a "special microsite" called the Windows advantage pavilion, CMP has joined hands with Microsoft in their FUD campaign against Linux and free software.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce its fourth anniversary. The site's first post, a welcome message from the founder, was made on June 25th, 2000.

If KDE and GNOME work together on a number of desktop features, we could finally have a unified desktop environment based on an ideal set of specifications. Tim R. submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which lays out a plan for the two open source GUIs to work together while still allowing each of them to continue developing upon their unique strengths.

Do you want a Linux and Windows desktop all in one? That's exactly what Element Computer, a Linux hardware vendor, is claming it will provide July 1. The company says it will become the first to offer a Linux desktop that also runs almost all Windows 95, 98 and ME applications.

US software giants setting up regional centre to promote programming for the open-source rival to Microsoft's Windows operating system.

In the jungle, the mighty IT jungle, the Linux deer sleeps tonight - with the IBM elephant, the HP lion, the Sun tiger and now the Oracle gorilla. Poor deer, she couldn't say no; after all, she was born to be Open and Free.

Hewlett-Packard this week announced a breakthrough file sharing product that uses new Linux clustering technology to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than typical clusters. The new product, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), is a self-contained file server that enables bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of industry-standard server and storage components.

Red Hat, which is at the vanguard of the global open source movement, is floating a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary to step up mass localisation of Linux operating systems.

BEA Systems Inc.'s Project Beehive will get a boost next Monday when the company announces at JavaOne that the Eclipse organization is working on a"top level" project that will support the product, according to sources.

With IT biggies throwing their weight behind Linux– and a host of smaller players creating products and providing support services for this OS–SMBs may have found just what they were hankering after, says Srikanth R P