According to Latest Nielsen//NetRatings’ @Plan Results - Leading Technology Network Outpaces Competition in Delivering Technology Business Purchasers and Influencers

OSDN (a subsidiary of VA Software Corp., NASDAQ: LNUX) retains its leadership ranking over comparable technology networks, particularly in business and technology categories, according to the latest Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan report. For the seventh-consecutive quarter, OSDN has been named the Number One network for delivering visitors who look for technology news online and for delivering visitors who make software purchases online.

Leading Linux news site emphasizes business, advocacy, and migration strategies December 3, 2003—Fremont, CA—OSDN (a subsidiary of VA Software Corp., NASDAQ:LNUX) has relaunched Linux.com, the premier Open Source/Linux-focused Web site, with renewed emphasis on business-level editorial, community-based involvement, advocacy and resources, and improved user navigation.

Using Open Source and Proprietary Platforms ITManagersJournal.com focuses on migration strategies and operations challenges facing senior-IT managers today.

OSDN's Slashdot (www.slashdot.org), the leading technology news and discussion site, today announced the launch of Slashdot Games, a new information section of the site aimed at serving the needs of the fast-growing gaming community. The new site provides Slashdot-style editorial to console and PC gamers, developers and designers.

New CD Featuring More Than 500 Microsoft(R) PowerPoint(R) Presentation Templates and Design-Studio-Quality Animations Enables Users to Create Powerful Presentations Faster

Animation Factory (www.animationfactory.com), the leading image-content Web site for business, education, and consumer users, today unveiled the Templates to Go CD-ROM, delivering an unparalleled collection of more than 500 high-quality presentation templates for Microsoft(R) PowerPoint(R) users. Many of the presentation templates include 3D animations featuring the design-studio quality and style that has made Animation Factory a popular Internet resource for graphic artists and designers.

With the recent addition of a dedicated section for Mac OS X software, freshmeat.net complements its portfolio of the latest and greatest projects in the software world, both free and non-free. Developers are encouraged to also post their software announcements on the freshmeat.net Mac OS X section now as freshmeat.net provides its users and visitors with a unique feature set to tailor the user experience exactly to his and her needs.

Visit http://osx.freshmeat.net/

Forbes.com has rated Slashdot as the Number 1 Technology Blog, based on a recent article. With ratings of fours and fives (on a scale of five) across the board for presentation, relevance, quality and reputation, Slashdot has been recognized as the place to go by both Forbes.com and Forbes readers. A poll taken of Forbes readers shows they approve of Slashdot over five of the other big Technology Blog sites by a margin of five to one over its nearest competitor.

In the latest release from Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan service, OSDN remained number one across all networks in over forty categories! Key among these were the following:

• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who have shopped for or purchased computer hardware or software online
• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who look for any news online
• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who look for technology news online
• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who purchase home electronics online
• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who have broadband access
• #1 across all networks for delivering visitors who have purchased developer tools

SourceForge.net makes it easier to stay up-to-date. The site recently implemented new RSS feeds that are accessible to all projects and developers to aid in the publishing of information and project status to other sites. Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at:

https://SourceForge.net

A download mirror for sourceforge.net, the development hub for nearly 60,000 open source projects, was launched in Sydney two weeks ago, symbolising the world’s recognition of Australia’s open source capability.