When cash seems to be raining from the sky, it's hard to concentrate on the code. None of that will go away now, but perhaps we have at least seen the end of the idea that instant riches are a natural right of Linux companies. It is also true, though, that a difficult market will make life harder for Linux businesses. Businesses need to raise cash to grow, and that has gotten harder to do. Linux, however, remains as strong as ever.
Free software is a better way of doing things, regardless of what is going on in the stock market.
Linux deal-making proceeds , heedless of the movements of the markets. Oracle will take an equity position in TurboLinux and TurboLinux will make a version of its operating system optimized for Oracle8i. Expect to see dust puppies on the LinuxMall site shortly. Lineo has announced two separate acquisitions. The first announcement concerns INUP, a French company that deals with fault-tolerant, clustered embedded systems.