Linux Gram articles from October 2001

Linux Gram archives from October 2001

Gateway Dumps Linux Internet Appliance.
October 1, 2001... Gateway, which has to pull in its horns big time, has quietly discarded its Transmeta-based Connected Touch Pad Internet appliance, which was supposed to let consumers access AOL's Internet service. The device, which was part of a deal that...

Penny Bid Stymies Mandrake Stock.
October 1, 2001... An apparent stock manipulator has effectively blocked all trading in MandrakeSoft stock since September 13. The company says the French authorities are investigating the matter. The unknown trader placed a bid of 0.01 Euros (one cent)...

Umm, Meet Charlie Northrup. Charlie Owns the Patent on Web Services And He Doesn't Even Work for Microsoft, IBM or Sun.
October 1, 2001... Here's the bottom line. Seems this guy in New Jersey may own the patent on web services. Yeah, really. He's modest, so he only claims that he may own the patent on a form of web services. But the patent is on software as a service over the...

Boscov's Plumps for Linux on Mainframe.
October 1, 2001... Boscov's, the department store chain, is consolidating its NT server farm on an IBM z900 mainframe running Linux to reduce the complexity of managing the thing and backing up data. Boscov's initially plans to move its print and file server...

Lineo Appoints Marketing Chief.(Ford Frost)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Embedded Linux vendor Lineo has named Ford Frost VP of marketing. Frost, who came to Lineo in January through its acquisition of real-time operating system specialist Embedded Power Corporation, was previously Lineo's regional VP of sales...

Alta Terra Debuts New Linux Hotsync Tools.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... Canadian Linux vendor Alta Terra Ventures has launched the BearOps Handheld Linx for Linux, a set of tools so users can transfer data from Palm and Handspring PDAs and Texas Instrument calculators to their Linux systems. Handheld Linx for...

Sun Wants To Stamp Passport "Canceled".(Sun's Liberty Alliance Project)
October 1, 2001... And so it came to pass pretty much as we said it would. Sun is trying in its own inimitable way to jam a stick into Passport's wheel. It's formed a counter-Passport coalition that has the distinct odor of being the Java Community Process...

Red Hat Validates Oracle9i Software.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Red Hat says it's validated Oracle9i Database and Application Server on Red Hat Linux 7.1 and expects to finish validating other versions of the Oracle software any second now.

Point Clark Debuts Vito.(Virtual Information Technology Officer for supporting remote server appliances)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Canadian Linux broadband gateway software vendor Point Clark Networks has launched a new service to manage Linux server appliances and Internet devices. Dubbed Vito, for Virtual Information Technology Officer, the new platform is...

Coventive Launches New Server Appliances.(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... Coventive Technologies, the Taiwanese Linux house with American ambitions, has introduced a new line of Linux appliances targeted at small and mid-sized enterprises and xSPs. They include a Blade Server, Multi-Function Server Appliance and...

IBM Sticks it to Sun.
October 8, 2001... IBM called up and offered to tell us a story rather than drone on in mind-numbing spec-speak. Well, you can imagine we were a bit leery considering the last time somebody offered to tell us a story we were permanently scarred by their...

Linuxcare Puts McKinsey Consultant in as CEO.(Avery Lyford)
October 8, 2001... Linuxcare has quietly gotten itself a new president and CEO, Avery Lyford, its fifth in its short lifetime. Lyford replaces co-founder Arthur Tyde, who reportedly stays on the board but apparently not on the management team. Lyford was...

SuSE Raises $13.9m but Will Fire Another 24%.(Company Operations)
October 8, 2001... SuSE Linux, which has been strapped for some time, has raised $13.9 million in third-round funding. e-millennium 1, a VC fund backed by a bunch of investors including Accenture, Beisheim Holdings, Deutsche Bank, La Caixa and SAP, took the...

Dell Hangs Tough.(Statistical Data Included)
October 8, 2001... Dell, in a conference call with Wall Street Thursday that replaced a face-to-face meeting because of travel fears, stuck by its guns and said it should hit its third-quarter numbers. In the run-up to the call, weak sisters on Wall Street...

Gateway Quarter Sinks, Layoffs To Hit 25%.(Company Operations)(Statistical Data Included)
October 8, 2001... Blaming the drop in demand caused by September 11, Gateway Thursday warned that it would report a greater-than-anticipated Q3 loss of 14 cents-17cents, excluding special charges that could theoretically run sky high. The market was braced...

Judge Tells M'soft To Settle Antitrust Case.(Colleen Kollar-Kotelly)(Company Business and Marketing)
October 8, 2001... Last Friday, September 28, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the new district court judge on the Microsoft antitrust case ordered Microsoft, the Justice Department and the states to settle by November 2. She said "quick resolution" was "increasingly...

Unintended Help.(Intel SpeedStep CPU)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... According to one of the recent messages that flow between Linux kernel developers, "Intel 'SpeedStep' CPUs are completely broken under Linux, and real-time will advance at different speeds in DC and AC modes, because Intel actually changes the...

Odd Silence.
October 8, 2001... Insiders have drawn our attention to the fact that IBM, the great Linux router, has been strangely silent about open source for some months. The conclusion of course is that it has thought the better of being too madcap over it.

No, Virginia, There is No Free Lunch.
October 8, 2001... Ahh, the Free Lunch crowd, provoked by one of the rabble-rousers, has been dumping on W3C's newly articulated IPC policy (CSN No 416). They object to the very idea that an IP owner would actually want to ask reasonable and non-discriminatory...

Gnome Misses Solaris 9 Bus.(Gnome 2.0)
October 8, 2001... Sun has got a feature-incomplete beta of Solaris 9 available for download through the company's early access program, but it seems the promised open-source Gnome 2.0 won't be the thing's default because, as we've pointed out before, the Gnome...

Linux Developers Group, Global Retail in POS Venture.(set up a joint venture called OpenCheckout)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Global Retail Technology and the Linux Developers Group, creators of the GnuCash personal accounting software, have set up a joint venture called OpenCheckout to build point-of-sale products based on open source software. The venture's...

CNET Abandons Embedded Linux.(LinuxDevices.com sold to DeviceForge LLC)
October 8, 2001... CNET has given up on its attempt to cover embedded Linux. It's sold LinuxDevices.com, its embedded Linux portal, to DeviceForge LLC, a previously unknown outfit started by Rick Lehrbaum, who also started LinuxDevices. He later sold the web...

HP Phone Home.(NetServers running Linux donated to the SETI@Home project)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Hewlett-Packard, looking for a little publicity for its Linux efforts, says it's donated some Itanium-based NetServers running Linux to the SETI@Home project. The HP boxes are in place at the Aricebo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, where...

Turbo Gets New Marketing Veep.
October 8, 2001... Turbolinux has hired a new VP of marketing out of Hewlett-Packard to replace Jerry Greenberg who retired a couple of months ago. Dino Brusco was on the software side (read Java) of HP's Embedded & Personal System business, where it stores its...

Penguin Upgrades Intel Workstations.(Penguin Computing's Niveus 205 Pentium III-based system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 8, 2001... Penguin Computing has launched an upgrade to its Intel-based Niveus workstations. Dubbed Niveus 205, the new workstations incorporate dual-Pentium III processors of up to 1.26GHz, a 133MHz front-side bus and up to 1.5GB of PC133 RAM. They...

Gnome 2 Finally Emerges from Hiding.(pre-release version of the Gnome 2 desktop)
October 8, 2001... The Gnome Foundation on Tuesday posted its first pre-release version of the Gnome 2 desktop, warning folks that the code is a rough cut unfit for human consumption. Or as the Gnome folk more gently puts it, "This release does not include...

SuSE Readies New Cut.(SuSE Linux 7.3 operating system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 8, 2001... SuSE has set an October 22 release date for a new cut of its distribution that will be the first to market with the recently released Linux kernel 4.10, which saw light of day on September 23. What will be SuSE Linux 7.3 will come with both...

New Linux Kernel Crashes and Burns.(Linux kernel 2.11)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Linux kernel version 2.11 emerged on Wednesday and died within 24 hours, with no less a luminary than Linus Torvalds himself admitting that the code was a "sorry excuse for a kernel." No doubt the poor dear set a new record for lack of...

KDE 3.0 Alpha Released.(application programming interface)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... The KDE Project has released the first alpha cut of what will be the KDE 3.0 desktop. The new generation of KDE, which is scheduled to hit beta in December and final release in late February, is built using the beta 6 version of...

Free Jabber.(JCP Express)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 15, 2001... Jabber Inc has released a free limited version of its flagship Jabber instant messaging server, one that will support up to 100 users. Jabber is the company owned by Webb Interactive Services. It exists to commercialize the open source...

Aspre e-Biz Software Ported to Linux.(SPx e-business Support Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 15, 2001... Aspre Inc has ported its SPx e-business Support Software to Linux. Previously offered on Windows and Solaris, SPx synchronizes front- and back-office functions such as offer promotion, e-commerce, online reselling, instant and managed...

Workstation Readies Linux Cut of its Backup Kit.(Workstation Solutions' Quick Restore backup and recovery kit)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Workstation Solutions is working on adding Linux support to its Quick Restore backup and recovery kit. The company's kit, which now supports Windows and various species of Unix uses standard NDMP to do local or remote backup of network attached...

Bynari Tries To Hawk Orphaned NAS Software.(Insight NAS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 15, 2001... Bynari has released a software kit to build Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) widgetry. Bynari tells an elaborate story about enterprises switching to a "new model of distributed network services" as the reason for its kit. It...

Sun Readies Cobalt Server Appliance Management Kit.(Cobalt Control Station)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 15, 2001... Sun next month will come to market with a kit that can manage hundreds of its Cobalt RaQ and Qube server appliances. Called the Cobalt Control Station, the kit is scheduled to show up on November 20 and will let network managers monitor the...

TI Adds Linux Support to its Wireless Kit.(OMAP wireless architecture kit)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Texas Instruments has released a Linux version of its OMAP wireless architecture kit to build 2.5G and 3G mobile devices. TI, of course, doesn't care what software widget makers use as long as it's running on TI's digital signal processors...

Prepress Kit Gets New Graphic Support.(Helios Software's EtherShare OPI prepress server software)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... German software house Helios Software GmbH has gone into beta with a new version of its EtherShare OPI prepress server software that supports the PNG and Windows BMP graphic formats. EtherShare runs on Linux, various Unixes and Mac OS X.

Linux Finishes First at Finnish ISP.(Sonera Entrum installs IBM mainframes running Red Hat Linux)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Finnish broadband ISP Sonera Entrum has ripped out 60 NT and Unix servers and replaced them with one big IBM system running Linux. Reports out of Finland are sketchy, but it looks like the ISP is running Red Hat Linux on an IBM mainframe...

Transmeta's on the Ropes.(market cap is now a mere $170 million)(Company Financial Information)
October 15, 2001... Transmeta's getting killed. As bad as the second quarter was for the processor start-up, the third quarter's gonna be worse. It said Tuesday that Q3 revenues would only amount to $5 million, down to a pittance from the $18.6 million it...

CA Cuts Staff.
October 15, 2001... The axe has fallen at Computer Associates. The company is reducing its worldwide headcount by 5%, roughly 900 jobs, because of the economy. The layoffs will be across-the-board. They will hit North America primarily, CA said late Thursday,...

Euro Regulators May Whack Microsoft's Pocketbook.(European trustbusters to impose fine on Microsoft)(Government Activity)
October 15, 2001... Angry European trustbusters may seek to impose the heaviest fine they can on Microsoft and garnish 10% of its annual revenues, roughly $2.5 billion, because Microsoft allegedly misled and obstructed their investigation into its supposed...

Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft's Appeal.(Microsoft wanted all of the findings of fact and law made by District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson convicting it of antitrust violations overturned)(Government Activity)
October 15, 2001... This is the story that was flashed on Tuesday. The Supreme Court turned down Microsoft's appeal Tuesday morning. It gave no reason for its decision. Microsoft wanted all of the findings of fact and law made by District Court Judge...

Tarot Cards, Alchemy & Wall Street.(Linux will drive China towards becoming the next software export giant)(Industry Trend or Event)
October 15, 2001... "We believe Linux eventually will level the playing field in server hardware. As soon as Oracle Financials (as a prototypical application) runs as well on Linux as it does on Solaris, Sun has a pricing problem. The cost of switching from...

Raid Anyone?(Mozilla 9.5 browser beta)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 15, 2001... At press time the Mozilla 9.5 browser beta was scheduled to show up imminently. Nobody, however, was seriously expecting to see it arrive on time, even according to the latest much-delayed schedule which set today, Friday, as the release...

The Fight over Hearts & Minds.(IBM's developerWorks portal)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... IBM's developerWorks portal just turned two and IBM figures it might as well stop fooling around and actively position the thing against MSDN, Microsoft's redoubtable developer network. IBM wants to entice Microsoft's followers over to Linux...

Sun Claims Pent-up Demand.(200,000 downloads for StarOffice 6.0 on Linux, Windows and Solaris)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Sun is claiming 200,000 downloads of a week-old early edition of StarOffice 6.0 on Linux, Windows and Solaris. This is the stuff that uses XML as the default file format and launches one app at a time rather than the whole suite.

Penguin on Life Support, Management Wiped Out, Staff Decimated.
October 22, 2001... Sources say Linux systems vendor Penguin Computing, the one-time VA Linux Systems wannabe, is in tenuous circumstances after annihilating its top management and instituting a big round of layoffs. Except for the company's founder Sam...

Inside the Penguin Meltdown.
October 22, 2001... At press time, one of the executives who says he walked out of Penguin Computing because of the brouhaha going on over there e- mailed us what purports to be the inside story. You will see why he might want to keep his name out of it. He...

AMD Adds Server Chips.(Athlon MP 1500+, 1600+ and 1800+)(Product Announcement)
October 22, 2001... There are now three new server-oriented Athlon MP chips in the world and they borrow from AMD's tortured new stylization and shy away from any association with garden-variety clock rates. Like the company's new desktop-bound Athlon XPs that...

Caldera To Dump Tarantella Bundle.
October 22, 2001... Caldera is on the verge of dumping its OpenLinux Application Server- Tarantella bundle. The offering existed because of an alliance between Caldera and Tarantella last year and the alliance existed because Caldera took the old SCO...

Bankrupt Ebiz CEO Quits.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Dave Shaw, the would-be king of online Linux sales, has resigned as CEO of Ebiz, which is operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Shaw will stay on the Ebiz board. He gave up the CEO's post "to concentrate on his other duties with...

Ximian Nets Kapor.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... My, my, my, my. The redoubtable Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus and designer of 1-2-3, has joined the board of Ximian, the start-up commercializing the Gnome open source desktop and leading the Mono Project to Linux-ize Microsoft's C#...

RealScale Touts Beowulf Blades.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... French blade house RealScale Technologies says it has tested its i- Cluster blade widgetry running as a Beowulf cluster and "validated" it as a Beowulf platform. While others in the infant blade industry might be able to run Beowulf,...

Oh Look, Apache Has Security Holes Too.(Apache Web server software security problems fixed)
October 22, 2001... The Apache Software Foundation has plugged three security holes in its flagship Apache 1.3.x open source HTTP server with a point upgrade. All of the security problems were known to exist since July; Apache users were left to patch them...

A Little Something for SourceForge.(VA Linux Systems's collaborative development platform)
October 22, 2001... VA Linux Systems, now reduced by the economic stress and strain from a high-flying hardware OEM to a much soberer software peddler, has hired in Colin Bodell as senior VP of product development for VA's SourceForge collaborative development...

Qt Upgrade Released.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 22, 2001... Trolltech has gone into final release with the new version of its Qt C++ cross-platform GUI development kit, the stuff behind the KDE desktop. Qt 3.0, which was released to public preview in April, is already behind a scattering of...

OnCore Offers Windows Kit for Embedded Linux Development.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 22, 2001... OnCore Systems Corporation has released a Win2K/NT version of its C/C++ development kit to build embedded Linux applications for its OnCore OS running on PowerPC and x86. The development of a Windows version of OnCore's kit is pragmatic....

Is There an Energizer Bunny in the House?(IBM develops smart wristwatch)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Remember that little Linux-powered "smart" wristwatch that IBM researchers cooked up as a dazzling technology demo about a year ago? Well, it turns out that Blue may actually try to turn the thing into a product. It's working with...

UK Open Source Advocate Renews Linux Virus Challenge.
October 22, 2001... Eddie Bleasdale, the director of UK open source consultancy NetProject, has reiterated his two-year-old challenge to hackers to try to infect his Linux PC with a virus. He promises 10,000 pounds sterling ($14,474) to the first person to be...

Mediator Brought into Settlement Talks.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... This is pretty much the same story flashed on Monday. As widely foreseen, Microsoft, the Justice Department and the states didn't work out a settlement in their two weeks of intense, court- imposed negotiations. So now the court, as it...

Transmeta Gets Adult Supervision.
October 22, 2001... Transmeta offered up a living sacrifice Tuesday to appease angry investors and replaced its CEO of seven months Mark Allen with its chairman Murray Goldman, a former Motorola Semiconductor big shot. It also moved another director, Hugh Barnes,...

New Blood for SGI Board.(Silicon Graphics elects Arthur Money to its board of directors)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... SGI has put former assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence and the DOD's CIO Arthur Money on its board. What with the war going on and intelligence collection a priority, the company expects to make...

Progeny Ditches Progeny Debian.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Progeny Linux Systems, the outfit started by Debian founder Ian Murdock, has stopped developing Progeny Debian, its shrinkwrap version of the Debian distro, to focus on consulting and professional services. It says it wants to converge...

Security House Puts Firewall on the "Wrong" Side To Protect against DDoS.(Product Announcement)
October 22, 2001... Attacks Security house Cs3 has come up with a novel idea to protect against denial of service (DDoS) attacks - it's built a Linux-based "reverse firewall" that sits on the opposite side of a network's contact point with the Internet from where...

Intel Has AMD Hurting.
October 22, 2001... AMD CEO Jerry Sanders said during his conference call with Wall Street the other that Intel's "desire to cut off our air supply is not painless to them." Be that as it may, he lost $97.424 million in the third quarter, the equivalent of 28...

OSDL Adds Testing Tool.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 22, 2001... The Open Source Development Lab has created a so-called Scaleable Test Platform (STP) so developers can test Linux kernel enhancements. The new tool is supposed to let developers select from a variety of tests, kernel trees and server...

Under the Hammer.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... AMD picked up its skirts and showed a little of Hammer's legs at the Microprocessor Forum this week. Hammer, of course, is its rebuttal to Intel's redoubtable 64-bit Itanium chip, but since AMD can't afford the king's ransom in R&D that...

Transmeta, in Crisis Mode, Gets New Sales Chief.
October 22, 2001... Transmeta called it right on the nose last week when it slashed its Q3 guidance and reduced anticipated revenues to an anorexic $5 million. That's exactly what it came in with Thursday when it reported. It lost $29.6 million net, 22 cents a...

PC Slump Chips Away at Intel's Sales & Profits.
October 22, 2001... What with PC sales in a nosedive nobody was really expecting sterling financials out of Intel for the September quarter and Intel obliged, just meeting or slightly beating what Wall Street had expected, with profits down 77%, or 95% if you take...

CA Reports Big Loss, Posts Pro Forma Profits.
October 22, 2001... Computer Associates lost $291 million, or 50 cents a share, on revenues of $734 million in its fiscal Q2, which ended September 30. A year ago, the company earned $138 million, or 23 cents a share, on revenues that totaled $1.54 billion....

Mozilla Becalmed; Desperate Team Pleads for Help.(Netscape browser development delayed)
October 22, 2001... Told ya so. The Mozilla team has finally admitted that there's no way in hell they're going to get the browser out this year. We've said so for months. Up until now the open source response has been to vilify anyone daring to say...

Intel Puts Nocona on the Map.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Intel has traced out, albeit it ever so vaguely, the future of its 32-bit NetBurst architecture. The new Foster will give way to Prestonia - probably in Q1 - which in turn will give way to the so- called third-generation shrink Nocona likely to...

Schools Study Alternative to Microsoft.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... The Microsoft licensing rumpus that's had large accounts claiming they'll be paying even more through the nose than they already do reportedly has some people searching out alternatives. The University of California at Los Angeles and its mate...

Ex-SuSE CTO Finds a Home.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... The former CTO of SuSE and president of tiny SuSE America Dirk Hohndel, who bolted right before the Labor Day weekend after a company reorg that cost co-founder and CEO Roland Dryoff his epaulets, has turned up working for Intel in Germany in...

Atipa, SearchHound Strike Deal.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Atipa Technologies and the pay-per-click search engine SearchHound have allied, creating a web presence for Atipa to peddle its wares and a traditional brick-and-mortar sales channel for SearchHound. SearchHound will manage Atipa's online...

Block & Tackle.(Transmeta not a significant player, says AMD's Jerry Sanders)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... "Transmeta is not relevant. Intel has kept it out of the market." - AMD CEO Jerry Sanders when asked about the chip start-up as a competitor

Combat Zone.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Security is reportedly going to be tight at Comdex next month. Among the many unsubstantiated rumors floating around is one that claims Comdex could be a terrorist target - the rumors even give the alleged date of an attack and how two...

Many an America Dream.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... An exec who walked out of Penguin Computing amid the implosion going on there tells a story at the expense of Penguin's kid founder Sam Ockman. "Apparently," he says, "someone that Sam fired told him that 'You can't just piss on...

New Wine Ready To Decant.(TransGaming Technologies' Wine file format conversion software)(Product Announcement)
October 29, 2001... A new version of Wine, one that allegedly works, has emerged from what at first blush is one of the most unlikely of places - a 10-man Canadian games start-up. Wine is the open source Windows apps migration project that's been around so...

New M'soft Rival Surfaces.(Lindows)
October 29, 2001... The thirtysomething founder of MP3.com, using the rallying cry "Bring choice to your computer!," has put together a company called Lindows that he imagines can take on Microsoft and Windows with - ready for this - Linux on the desktop coupled...

eGenera To Resell Turbo's Cockpit.
October 29, 2001... Start-up Linux blade house eGenera is teaming up with Turbolinux to resell Turbo's newfangled PowerCockpit management software with its BladeFrame hardware worldwide. The pair did not put a value on the licenses eGenera is buying. Several...

Red Hat Moves To Secure Red Hat Linux.
October 29, 2001... Red Hat expected to sew up two loopholes in its operating system that leave it open to predatory attacks by the perverse by early Wednesday afternoon. Historically the company has never signed with a GPG signature either the file that...

Archway Blade House is Reportedly Born with a Silver Spoon in its Mouth.
October 29, 2001... It was press time when we stumbled across the existence of another blade start-up, a semi-stealth outfit called Digital Archway Inc. So, time being at a premium, we weren't able to do the dental surgery necessary to get the thing's full...

Thailand Borrows Page from China's Book.
October 29, 2001... A published report says the Thai government, sounding a bit like some of China's ministers, is starting to actively encourage the development and bidding of open source software as a way to lessen the country's dependence on foreign software...

Borland Kit Builds Web Services on Linux.(Kylix 2.0)(Product Announcement)
October 29, 2001... Borland has put support for XML/SOAP-based web services in its Kylix rapid applications development (RAD) kit for Linux. Web services are all the rage and Borland says that apps built with what it calls BizSnap, a XML/SOAP RAD module in...