Received large cash boost in private investment deal led by investment fund BayStar Capital, structured as private placement of non-voting Series A Convertible Preferred Shares, at fixed conversion price $16.93/share. [eWeek]

SCO CEO Darl McBride accuses president of Open Source Initiative, Eric Raymond, and open source community in general, of not doing enough to stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on SCO website. [eWeek]

Price no longer the best reason to try OSS?

Sun Microsystems redies AIX to Solaris Migration Program to harvest possible customers from looming battle between SCO and IBM over IBM AIX license, its Unix OS; mandated 100-day license notice period ends Friday. [eWeek]

The reviewer details some of the improvements and new features offered in this version.

Linux creator this week responded to range of allegations made by SCO at its SCO Forum 2003 conference, Las Vegas. Torvalds disputes what was shown as evidence of illegal Unix System V code in Linux. [eWeek]

Review by eWeek Labs of two products that provide high-level analysis and reporting but take very different approaches: WebTrends Reporting Center 5.0 and SiteCatalyst.

Far from moribund, Web analytics offerings provide a wide variety of analysis, reporting capabilities. eWeek.