NetFlash: Someone has to do it

Network World Associate Online News Editor Linda Leung drew the short straw, but she bravely entered the wilds of Websense, an Internet filtering company where employees are paid to view content judged naughty, obscene or just plain un-business-worthy. What resulted is this week’s A Wider Net story, a fascinating look at how difficult it can be to classify what is Good, what is Bad, and what is simply a Cultural Difference. Someone has to do it http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126widernetporn.html?net

Network World Associate Online News Editor Linda Leung drew the short straw, but she bravely entered the wilds of Websense, an Internet filtering company where employees are paid to view content judged naughty, obscene or just plain un-business-worthy. What resulted is this week’s A Wider Net story, a fascinating look at how difficult it can be to classify what is Good, what is Bad, and what is simply a Cultural Difference.

Someone has to do it

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126widernetporn.html?net

HP eyes Opteron

It would appear AMD really struck a chord with server buyers in its Opteron processor. The chip provides an interim step between the 32-bit world and the 64-bit world, something Intel didn’t really provide. Now HP is considering a jump on the bandwagon.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0127hpopt.html?net

Q&A: Lotus GM discusses past, present and future developments

IBM Lotus is using its annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., to review the software it released in 2003 and to lay out how its platforms – Notes/Domino, Lotus Workplace and WebSphere – all lead to the same destination, a place Lotus calls organizational productivity. Ambuj Goyal, general manager of Lotus Software, sat down with Network World Senior Editor John Fontana to talk about past, present and future developments.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0127goyal.html?net

Draft EU ruling finds Microsoft guilty

Microsoft’s chances of settling its European antitrust case are fading, as competition officials at the European Commission circulated a draft ruling to colleagues that finds the company guilty of abusing the monopoly power of its Windows operating system, people close to the Commission said Tuesday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0127msdraft.html?net

A call for ideas

We’re thinking about holding a contest, and I’d like to get your opinion about whether you’d be interested. The contest would be to invent a networking company that would solve a problem you’ve experienced in networks in the field. What would the products be? How would the company make money? That sort of thing. Entries would be judged by experts and venture capitalists.mailto:jcaruso@nww.com

What do you think? Let me know at