Macromedia has made the most significant product announcement in its history. The new Studio 8 software suite combines the latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper.  

The LinuxWorld Expo Conference and Exhibition opens today in San Francisco, with an estimated 11,000 developers expected to attend.

Novell will be open-sourcing its SuSE Linux. OpenSuSe, as it is called, is intended to push Linux into more mainstream usability, so it can be easily installed and deployed by "non-technical" users.

Novell has also announced the appointment of Susan Heystee as president, Novell North America.

Siebel Systems plans to join the Novell enterprise open-source bandwagon, announcing at LinuxWorld that it will port its business applications to Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9.