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This CNET article, found at the new and itchin'-for-eyeballs AlphaNews site run by the AlphaLinux folks, says that Alpha Processor International (API) will be producing specialty boxes delivering streaming audio and video starting this Fall. "Alpha Processor's new machine will consist of a collection of smaller, two-processor Alpha computers, each running its own copy of Linux but the whole system acting essentially as a single large server," says the article, pointing out too that there already are Alpha-based dedicated streaming boxes from Network Appliances. Anything that increases Alpha production seems good to me, if it drives down the price of being 64-bit. Wonder what distro all those CPUs will be running ...

xose writes "A source inside Compaq has revealed to alphalinux.org that Oracle is porting its Oracle 8 database to AlphaLinux., with an expected release data in Q1,1999. So we now have the commitment or a major database vendor to AlphaLinux. This source has also told us that several other 1st tier ISV now consider AlphaLinux to be a strategic platform."

Rich Payne writes "In what could be one of the biggest AlphaLinux news items of the year, PATMOS and the AlphaLinux community are working together to build a 256 node AlphaLinux Cluster. More information will be made available at the PATMOS and alphalinux.org websites. If you are interested in helping build the worlds largest AlphaLinux cluster you can send amail to either myself or to Bill Anderson. A few pictures of the incoming hardware are available at the PATMOS website."

Rich Payne writes "In what could be one of the biggest AlphaLinux news items of the year, PATMOS and the AlphaLinux community are working together to build a 256 node AlphaLinux Cluster. More information will be made available at the PATMOS and alphalinux.org websites. If you are interested in helping build the worlds largest AlphaLinux cluster you can send amail to either myself or to Bill Anderson. A few pictures of the incoming hardware are available at the PATMOS website."

Barrett Lyon writes "The new and improved Alpha Linux web site is now up. This site replaces the original on Azstarnet, left behind by David Mosberger-Tang and Bob Cauthorn. The site promotes Linux on Alpha architecture and also holds archives of AXP Linux Documents, Mailing Lists, Software, Hardware, Howto Docs, and Links. Oh, and of course the site is hosted on a Alpha Linux machine ;) " And it looks awesome.

Rich Payne writes " Alphalinux.org is now open. The hope of this site is to provide a comprehensive resource for the Alpha-Linux community. " Nuts, with a URL like that, I was hoping it was a dairy products distributor or something. *grin*.