Thanks to the following people for their corrections and additional info; any remaining errors are solely my fault: Jeffrey Chapman, Michael Cope, Michael Hicks, Dan Kaminsky, Ian Kluft, Anas Nashif, Brent J. Nordquist, Alexandre Petit-Bianco, Jason Riedy and David Sundqvist.
Taos Mountain's announcement:
http://www.teamtaos.com/events.linux/ (includes a streaming video of highlights)
SVLUG's summary/reviews page:
http://www.svlug.org/events/future-199807-reviews.shtml
EE Times' article:
http://eetimes.com/news/98/1017news/linux.html
Slashdot's discussion:
http://slashdot.org/articles/980717/2021236.shtml
InfoWorld's article:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980715.ehlinux.htm
Rafael Skodlar's report at the Tasty Bits archive:
http://www.tbtf.com/resource/skodlar.txt
Slashdot's discussion of this very report:
http://www.slashdot.org/articles/980719/1413242.shtml
Informix's Linux press release (Informix-SE and free developer's kit):
http://www.informix.com/informix/corpinfo/ifxnews/
press/1998/freelxpr.html
Oracle's Linux press release (Oracle8):
http://www.oracle.com/cgi-bin/press/
printpr.cgi?file=980721.26767.html
&mode=corp&td=1&tm=8&fd=1&fm=07&status
=Search&ty=98&limit=50&fy=98
Oracle's feature article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980721/ca_oracle__1.html
Netscape's Linux press release (Netscape Messaging Server and Netscape Directory Server):
http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease650.html
IBM's fast Java compiler (Jikes, just ported to Linux):
http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/Jikes/
Dean Olson's Slashdot article on Linux and Corporations:
http://www.slashdot.org/features/980722/0955225.shtml