Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are bringing you a great show tonight. Are you ready to go?????

ALL News Tonight. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Microsoft, SCO, Hot products, Linux is GOVERNMENT business, plus a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Story Links

• Linux in Government: Federal Contracts, a New Era of Competition
• Red Hat CFO resigns in surprise move
• HP seals open-source e-mail deal
• Open source content management partnerships are a promising sign
• Norway's second city ditches Windows for Linux ZDNet UK News staff
• Leading Thin Client Vendor Responds to Booming Linux Demand LinuxDevices.com
• Microsoft's war on GPL dealt patent setback By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco - The Register
• Mondo Rescue LiveCD backup: a nugget of gold By Joe Barr - NewsForge
• Linux seen as secure option as banks replace mainframes with PC servers FinExtra.com
• Open source support site launches DesktopLinux.com
• Follow up on LXER Boycott

Segment Two- Linux in Government- with Tom Adelstein

We will be joined by Tom Adelstein tonight to discuss the changing landscape of Linux in government procurment.

Tom Adelstein works as a Linux consultant and specializes in identifying opportunities for open-source software in organizations. He's the coauthor of the upcoming book, Exploring Linux with the Java Desktop System, published by O'Reilly and Associates. He also works with the Open Source Software Institute. He recently published two articles in Forbes about open-source software and JBOSS. He also has written numerous articles as a guest editor for a variety of publications.

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