This week on Network World Fusion, 01/19/03

1) Showtime for Linux

2) Microsoft seeks its next cash cow

3) Technology Insider: Linux in 2004

4) A Wider Net: Big Blue makes the most of its gray matter

5) Wireless Wizards: How can WPA be more secure than WEP?

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: How to migrate to new tape drive

7) Security Notes: The trouble with programming

8) Technology Update: SIMPLE aims for IM interoperability

9) Loss prevention: Or how to retain your staff

10) From Net.Worker: Home office highlights from CES

11) NetScaler beefs up Web switch

12) Configuration tools to ease management

13) Cisco launches metro Ethernet assault

14) Consolidation might be new wireless plan

15) Colubris: Who needs WLAN switches?

16) Flaw in standard puts VoIP gear at risk

17) ISS backs new IPS offering with cash-or-credit guarantee

18) Domino faithful feel back in the fold

19) IT spending on security, CRM to rise in 2004

1) Showtime for Linux

With The SCO Group’s licensing issues roiling in the background and Microsoft demonstrating a Linux alternative, IT professionals aren’t distracted and are expected to do more than just window-shop this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York. We’ll be posting the latest news from the show on a special LinuxWorld page (latest headlines)

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2) Microsoft seeks its next cash cow

Microsoft’s reputation is one of a moneymaker, but the fact is that four of its seven business units are in the red.

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3) Technology Insider: Linux in 2004

Its focus is shifting from technical advancement to building ISV support, to making inroads on the desktop and spreading to new types of devices.

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4) A Wider Net: Big Blue makes the most of its gray matter

From artificial eyes to Web advances, IBM keeps its patent machine cranking.

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5) Wireless Wizards: How can WPA be more secure than WEP?

The Wizards compare the two security methods.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0119wizards.html

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: How to migrate to new tape drive

Ron Nutter helps a user move to a new tape system.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0119nutter.html

7) Security Notes: The trouble with programming

Senior Editor Ellen Messmer talks application security with Bank One’s vice president and manager of information security, Matt Dokman, and Ian Rathie, the bank’s information systems director in charge of application security.

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8) Technology Update: SIMPLE aims for IM interoperability

SIMPLE is ideally suited for integrating IM/presence with voice, data-sharing, video and other real-time collaboration features.

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9) Loss prevention: Or how to retain your staff

Learn how to put in the time and effort to satisfy your IT staff and keep them from walking out the door.

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10) From Net.Worker: Home office highlights from CES

Details on the telework, home office and home network developments from the Consumer Electronics Show.

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11) NetScaler beefs up Web switch

NetScaler this week is set to launch two high-end versions of its Web switch/security gateway products that could help Web-based companies accelerate the processing, encryption and filtering of Web-based traffic for sites that receive millions of hits per day.

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12) Configuration tools to ease management

A slew of vendors in the coming weeks will make their network configuration management tools available to corporate customers looking to automate the tedious and error-prone job of configuring switches, routers and other devices – and then tracking those changes.

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13) Cisco launches metro Ethernet assault

Cisco this week is expected to unveil a series of new and enhanced products designed to let service providers offer a greater variety of metropolitan Ethernet services to their business customers.

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14) Consolidation might be new wireless plan

The wireless industry seems to be standing at the doorstep of consolidation, and last week speculation hit a fever pitch with carriers from Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Nextel Communications and NTT DoCoMo reportedly interested in acquiring AT&T Wireless.

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15) Colubris: Who needs WLAN switches?

Colubris Networks this week will unveil feature-packed wireless LAN access points that company officials say eliminate the need to extend wired networks with WLAN switches.

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16) Flaw in standard puts VoIP gear at risk

Voice over IP is making it easier to wage cyberwar, an analyst reported last week, just as flaws that make some VoIP products vulnerable were revealed.

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17) ISS backs new IPS offering with cash-or-credit guarantee

Internet Security Systems is so confident that the managed security offering it is announcing next week will automatically block certain network attacks that it pledges to pay customers thousands of dollars in credit or cash if the service fails.

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18) Domino faithful feel back in the fold

Lotus Domino is experiencing a revival within IBM, according to end users who say they couldn’t be happier about the development as the annual Lotusphere conference approaches later this month in Orlando.

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19) IT spending on security, CRM to rise in 2004

With overall IT budgets expected to increase this year, industry watchers are looking for customers to satisfy pent-up demand for software products, in particular those for securing networks and improving customer relations.

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