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Aladdin Enterprises
develops the Aladdin version of Ghostscript (a freely-distributable
PostScript and PDF interpreter similar to GNU GhostScript). Contact
L. Peter Deutsch, Aladdin Enterprises, 203 Santa Margarita Ave.,
Menlo Park. (650) 322-0103 (AM only), or (650) 322-1734 fax. (Please
note that these are not support contacts.)
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ASA Computers, Inc.
will build what look to be high-quality Linux systems, in several
configurations. 2354 Calle Del Mundo, Santa Clara. (800) REAL-PCs,
or (408) 654-2900, or (408) 654-2910 fax.
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ASL [Advanced System Lab],
Inc.
sells Linux-based laptops, desktop PCs, servers, peripherals,
network hardware, and software. 1757 Houret Court, Milpitas. (408)
941-2070 voice, (408) 941-2071 fax, (877) ASL-3535 (toll-free
sales).
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California
Digital Corporation
builds and sells the Linux-based server and cluster hardware
formerly sold by VA Linux Systems, Inc., plus has an active
professional services division. 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont.
(888) LINUX-4U (toll-free), (510) 651-8811.
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Casey-Dakota
does design/construction of regular and secure-transaction Web
sites, C and Oracle programming, Oracle on Linux. 260 Endoda Road,
Boulder Creek. (888) KCD-WEBB (toll-free), (408) 316-6770.
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Central Computer
Systems,
in San Francisco Santa Clara, and Newark has a decent selection of
Linux CD-ROM sets. 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd. @ San Tomas, Santa
Clara; 837 Howard Street @ 4th Street, San Francisco; 5990 Mowry
Avenue @ Cedar Blvd. All are open M-F 9-7:30pm, Sa/Su/holidays
10:30-6. (415) 495-5888 voice / (415) 896-5888 fax for San
Francisco. (408) 248-5888 voice / (408) 241-0390 fax for Santa
Clara. (510) 793-555 voice / (510) 795-7888 fax for Newark.
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Cheap*Bytes
isn't quite in the Bay Area, but the prices!
They sell all popular distributions -- for as little as $1.99 -- and
a large variety of good books, plus a few applications (ApplixWare,
SWiM Motif, CDE). P.O. Box 2714, Lodi. (209) 367-8518 fax (no voice
'phone).
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Cobalt Networks, Inc.,
a division of Sun Microsystems, manufactures the Qube and RaQ series
of zero-administration "server appliances", based on Linux
and MIPS RISC processors. 555 Ellis Street, Mountain View. (650)
623-2500 voice, (650) 623-2501 fax.
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Herlein Engineering,
Inc.
does technical consulting and software development, specialising in
"networking and communication software and system development,
as well as network design, deployment and security/protection".
San Francisco. (415) 441-5609, or (415) 440-9015 fax.
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Infoflex, Inc.
publishes SQLFLEX, an inexpensive Informix-clone SQL database for
Linux, related reporting tools, and ACCOUNTFLEX, a full-featured
accounting system. 840 Hinckley Road, Suite 107, Burlingame, (650)
697-6045.
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iXsystems, Inc.,
formerly part of BSDi, formerly Telenet System Solutions, in San
Jose, sells Linux and BSD-based Intel servers, workstations, and
RAID subsystems. 2480 Kruse Drive, San Jose. (408) 383-0334, or
(408) 383-0335 fax.
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Just Computers
retails a wide range of Linux distributions, books and other
products. (Information on their Web page is extremely sketchy, as
they're rebuilding it on another machine. Best to call them.) P.O.
Box 751414, Petaluma. (707) 773-3250, (707) 765-1431 fax.
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KrystalBox
Technologies, Inc.
is a "Web application development and system design firm
specializing in open source software technologies" on Linux and
FreeBSD. PO Box 428, Palo Alto. (650) 327-8929, (650) 327-8949 fax.
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Linuxcare, Inc.
will "set up, configure, maintain, or expand your Linux
installation", and has a range of support/system-administration
packages for different needs. 650 Townsend Street, San Francisco.
(415) 354-4878 or (888) LIN-GURU aka (888) 546-4878 (toll-free), or
(415) 831-9763 fax.
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Linux
Consulting, Inc.
"builds, configures, tests, and sells" Linux PCs, does
standard Web hosting, virtual hosting, Web/CGI programming and
setup/maintenance/design of Web pages and servers, custom Internet
access and connectivity and custom Internet servers". Can do
migrations of company data (e.g., product information) to
Web-accessible formats. Offers offsite data storage, remote
administration, custom maintenance. Contact Alvin Oga, 3777 Stevens
Creek Blvd, #360 (Central Computer Bldg.), Santa Clara. (408)
98-Linux, or (408) 985-4688 fax.
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LinuxIS (formerly
Virtual Estate Internet)
does installation and support of Internet software on Linux and
similar systems, along with Web hosting and server co-location.
Unfortunately, their Web page knowingly mischaracterises proprietary
software they offer (qmail, djbdns, Sun JDK) as "open
source" -- in my view, a serious disservice to customers. So
caveat emptor, as to the reliability of their consulting advice.
Based in Burlingame. Contact sales@linuxis.net (which appears to be
Adam McKenna).
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Mountain View
Data
was launched in late 2000 by TurboLinux founders Cliff and Iris
Miller and filesystem developer Peter Braam for commercial
deployment of the Intermezzo distributed filesystem and similar
Storage Area Network setups. 989 Market Street, San Francisco, (415)
243-0762, or (415) 243-0752 fax.
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Net Express
makes Linux and BSD workstations, servers, clusters, and RAID
arrays. 2415 Radley Ct #1, Hayward. (510) 887-4308, or (510)
887-4380 fax.
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Penguin Computing
builds Linux-based servers and workstations, plus doing training,
consulting, and custom programming. 965 Mission Street, Suite 600,
San Francisco. (415) 243-8100 or (888) 736-4846 (toll-free aka
888-PENGUIN), or (415) 243-8181 (fax).
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Red Hat Software, Inc.
has its CYGNUS division in Sunnyvale and its C2Net division in
Oakland.
| William
F. Rousseau
does "General computing consulting (Unix, Linux, network
configuring, software development)" and says he may give
discounts to individuals building/configuring their own Linux boxes
or for work benefitting the Linux community. 842 Lucille Street,
Livermore. (510) 455-8008 voice/fax.
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Sera Systems
makes Linux and BSD-based servers and workstations. 1793 Lafayette
Street #240, Santa Clara. (408) 557-6997 or (877) 737-2797.
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Softcraft Impresa
is publisher of the Generations Linux distribution, and does
consulting for "homogeneous and heterogeneous networks with
Linux/Unix and other TCP/IP-capable nodes", server-side
Java-CGI setups, NYS/DNS, and SAMBA servers. Contact Mauro DePalma,
2923 Cohansey Drive, San Jose. (408) 251-9820.
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Starshine Technical
Services
offers support and training for Linux and Unix system administrators
& technical staff, and provides remote off-site support
contracts (via voice telephone, dial-up, or Internet ssh or STEL
access). Contact Jim Dennis, proprietor, via e-mail at jim@starshine.org.
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SuSE, Inc.,
at 318 Harrison St., Suite 310, Oakland, is the American branch of
the German group publishing the extremely full-featured SuSE Linux
distribution. (888) 875-4689 (toll-free), or (510) 628-3380, or
(510) 628-3381 fax.
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TiVo, Inc.
in Alviso offers a service that automatically records television
from any source (antenna, cable, satellite) following criteria you
specify, and lets you play it back when and how you wish. It uses a
custom Linux-based box running on a PowerPC CPU to record and manage
the video content, digitally. 2160 Gold Street, Alviso. (408)
519-9100, (408) 519-5330 fax.
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Transmeta Corporation
in Santa Clara makes low-power-consumption, smart-design
microprocessor products for mobile computing, embedded applications,
and other roles. Its "Crusoe" chip family runs Linux, and
Linus Torvalds works for the company. 3940 Freedom Circle, Santa
Clara. (408) 919-6393, (408) 919-6540 fax.
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TurboLinux, Inc.
(formerly Pacific HiTech)
publishes the TurboLinux distribution for Intel IA32, Intel IA64,
IBM zSeries, IBM S/390, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries, and PowerPC
(available in English, Japanese, Chinese, or Korean), cluster
software, server applications, and numerous other titles on CD-ROM.
For Sales & Marketing, contact TurboLinux, Inc. (California)
8000 Marina Blvd., Brisbane. (650) 228-5000, (650) 228-5001 fax.
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VA Software Corporation
(formerly VA Linux Systems, Inc., formerly VA Research, formerly
Fintronics) used to be listed here, but in a July 2002 Forbes
article was quoted declaring itself "no
longer a Linux company". It runs the Open Source
Development Network Web sites, and develops a proprietary fork of
Tim Perdue's Sourceforge software suite.
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Vennerable
Consultants
works on "Linux, FreeBSD, X11 (servers and applications), C,
C++, Perl, tcl/tk, Java applications and FastCGI, Web support
services, secure Web servers, and distributed systems". Contact
Jason Venner, 1563 Solano Avenue Suite 516, Berkeley. (510) 528-8072
voice/fax.
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FreeBSD Mall
company a CD vendor
| Yggdrasil Computing,
Inc.
publishes The Linux Bible, Plug and Play Linux (a Linux
distribution), Linux Internet Archives (a CD-ROM set), the Linux -
Installation and Beyond videotape, and SWiM Motif. It also is
further developing the open-source Arena Web browser for the W3
Consortium. 4880 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 205, San Jose. (408)
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