* For Ebbers, Oakdale is no place like home * Microsoft to offer no-strings attached access to Windows Datacenter Server * Why you need to buy a .mobi name * Ecora giving away system audit tool * Overcoming hurdles to open source adoption * Hot Seat: Desktop support without a client * Buzzblog: Here's what HP should have done - and why * Today on Layer 8
For Ebbers, Oakdale is no place like home
Oakdale, La., population 8,137, is a small town where residents say everyone knows everyone else. Though it’s unlikely most of them will ever get to meet one of their newest and most famous neighbors: Disgraced telecom tycoon Bernard Ebbers. Click here for more.
Microsoft to offer no-strings attached access to Windows Datacenter Server
Microsoft for the first time will begin selling directly to volume licensing customers the Datacenter version of its Windows server and also offer those users the right to run an unlimited number of virtualized servers. Click here for more.
Why you need to buy a .mobi name
In a crowded field of domain-name extensions, new .mobi names are proving popular among multinational corporations looking for ways to exploit the popularity of cell phones that can access Web content. Click here for more.
Ecora giving away system audit tool
Configuration-management vendor Ecora this summer quietly made a scaled-down version of its enterprise Auditor Professional software, called Auditor Lite, available at no cost from its Web site. The company next week plans to announce it has extended the availability of the free version through year-end. Click here for more.
Overcoming hurdles to open source adoption
As open source applications become increasingly stable, companies must learn to view the software as just another piece in a comprehensive application architecture that will include open source as well as closed source components. Click here for more.
Hot Seat: Desktop support without a client
Most remote support products are delivered through an ASP model or require a desktop client, but NetworkStreaming felt an appliance approach was a better option. Founder Joel Bomgaars explains the benefits on this week’s Network World Hot Seat. Watch now.
Buzzblog: Here’s what HP should have done – and why
They should have given every director this choice: Take a polygraph or take a hike. The option was reportedly bandied about among those charged with finding the rat, but then summarily dismissed… for reasons that seem mystifying in hindsight. Click here for more.
Today on Layer 8, where we’re easy like Sunday morning:
Annoying billionaire: Only a ‘moron’ would buy YouTube; Google buys historic landmark; Sony recalls all laptop batteries on Earth; and the winner of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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