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HP set to buy Neoware for $214 millionHP on Monday announced plans to acquire thin-client computing vendor Neoware for approximately $214 million in a deal HP says will enhance its personal systems technologies.
Duke, the iPhones and Cisco, oh my
With the Duke wireless flooding entering the consciousness of even non-networking types (it was a question on NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” quiz show this past weekend), there’s plenty of discussion on Network World about it: What could it be? – People try to guess the issue. Then folks discussed Duke’s statement on the Cisco angle (also here). The whole thing prompts one user to ask if anybody knows what it’s like to have a Cisco 1200 wireeless access point fall on your head. What do you think of it all?
In depth
Network-upgrade horror story
An IT executive learns key lessons during four-year effort to get network upgrade off the ground.
How to reduce hidden costs and find secret savings in a VoIP rollout
One of the key issues in implementing VoIP is cost. Savings exist, but so do additional costs, effectively negating any net savings for the first 12 to 18 months.
Defining the next paradigm of IT outsourcing
In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn explained that a paradigm is a worldview that is vulnerable to being displaced when new ideas render it obsolete.
From the blogs and forums
Say hello to Ken Presti, whose Channel Surfing blog will look at how products and services in the Cisco channel are sold. And say hi to Michael Morris, who will write about network architecture considerations on his From the Field blog.
Rand Morimoto looks under the hood of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Susan Hanley explains how to get the most out of SharePoint Search.
Greg Royal declares the failure of VoIP provider SunRocket was a failure of management. Brad Reese looks at the difference between Cisco WebVPN and Cisco SSL VPN Client 1.0.
Keith Shaw wonders if the Sprint Mogul could be the enterprise iPhone. Mark Gibbs discusses Sprint’s policies for cutting off subscribers. Paul McNamara (and wife) admit to having a cell phone go through the wash. Jeff Doyle explains setting up an IPv6 test lab. Paul McNamara reports how a credit-card-number thief who hit a Disney movie service may have also gotten away with numbers from Johnson & Johnson.
Users, meanwhile, get outraged by the theft of their banking information over at Certegy. Users discuss Sxip with Dave Kearns, author of our identity-management newsletter. E.D. Karthik seeks help in configuring QoS in a Cisco 2600 router. Meatpieandtatters grows weary of vendor-sponsored surveys that identify “new” security risks that could be blocked through simple, standard techniques rather than through the purchase of expensive new gear. Users consider the skills you most need to get a new job.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user decide the best way to cut off employee access to specific Web sites.
ITVideo
Logitech’s new (flying?) Air Mouse
Logitech’s new Air Mouse is great for those that need a mouse in the living room, but be careful it doesn’t become a projectile.
More news
Hogwarts’ ill-fated IT guy: Who was J.W. Coxrid?
Among the many mysteries, both great and small, surrounding the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the attempt to create a computer network in the mid-1990s.
BMC acquires RealOps
BMC Software acquires run-book automation vendor RealOps to add more capabilities around its business service management and IT-process automation product suites.
Microsoft plans to host services, not become integrator
Services based on mashups, composite applications along with the required customer service, uptime and service-level agreements will fall mostly to partners
Enterprise customer sees benefits in consolidating services under one platform
Switching from Oracle to SAP CRM gave Dow Corning the right tools to improve sales processes.
