High-speed Internet will not be coming to hundreds of rural and northern Ontario communities anytime soon as the Ontario government decided recently to scrap a $55-million program designed to help regions not covered by ISPs.
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), Novell Inc. and IBM Corp. are working to open source Xforms 1.0, a W3C standard for creating Web forms using Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Novell Inc. released the latest version of its enterprise Linux product, SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, which now includes the 2.6 Linux kernel.
Starting in September, about 4,500 Acadia University students and faculty will have the opportunity to use Xandros Inc.'s Linux desktop operating system.