This week on Network World Fusion, 03/08/03

1) Showtime for Linux

1) Microsoft users decry no bang for big bucks

3) Bottom line alone isn’t selling VoIP

4) Wireless Wizards: Do you need four WEP keys per access point?

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Troubleshooting W2K login script problems

6) Review: Dell’s PowerConnect 6024 switch

7) More than just a modem man

8) XMPP transports presence data

9) Training on a shoestring budget

10) Moving Linux to the desktop

11) Microsoft’s long road to security

12) Porting wireless numbers could pay dividends

13) SIP catches on

14) Customers: Ebbers charges send a message

15) SCO takes Linux battle to users

16) Wireless LAN industry starts raising antennas over MIMO

17) IBM targets vertical markets, SMBs

18) Companies take cover as worm war breaks out

19) Linux to star at Novell conference

20) Dunn discusses comeback of Nortel

21) MCI offers DoS safety net

1) Microsoft users decry no bang for big bucks

A host of Microsoft users say they have received nothing in return for the tens of thousands of dollars spent on software maintenance contracts set to expire this summer.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308licensing.html

2) Inside the DoD’s crime lab

Whenever a U.S. government agency investigating a crime or a cybercrime has digital evidence that’s too difficult to analyze, they send it to the Department of Defense computer forensics lab.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0308dod.html

3) Bottom line alone isn’t selling VoIP

VoiceCon 2004 demonstrated that more businesses are seriously considering VoIP, but the benefits of the technology remain difficult to justify using just traditional bottom-line analysis.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308voicecon.html

4) Wireless Wizards: Do you need four WEP keys per access point?

A curious user asks the Wizards whether he should use all four of the possible WEP keys allowed in the setup of his access points.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0308wizards.html

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Troubleshooting W2K login script problems

Ron Nutter helps diagnose a problem on a network with three domain controllers – sometimes users report they can’t log onto the network.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0308nutter.html

6) Review: Dell’s PowerConnect 6024

Dell hits the price/performance mark with new Gigabit Ethernet switch.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0308rev.html

7) More than just a modem man

Maybe Brent Townshend would have wound up in court no matter what he invented. Since creating 56K bit/sec modem technology in the mid-1990s, the California engineer has spent a lot of time suing companies that don’t license it upfront and has amassed a fortune in the process.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308widernetmodem.html

8) XMPP transports presence data

Businesses increasingly require real-time interaction among people, applications and devices that span many networks. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol offers a way to route context-sensitive data among a complex interconnection of nodes.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0308techupdate.html

9) Training on a shoestring budget

IT executives share smart suggestions for boosting IT skills without breaking the bank.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0308man.html

10) Moving Linux to the desktop

Increasingly, businesses, government entities and schools are starting to look beyond Windows, which IDC says securely dominates the desktop market with a 94% market share. Instead they’re considering running Linux as their client operating environment. But the move is a slow one.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308desktop.html

11) Microsoft’s long road to security

Company makes progress, but experts and users say it still has a long way to go.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308microsoft.html

12) Porting wireless numbers could pay dividends

If you’re interested in significantly reducing your company’s wireless service expenses, it might be time to go shopping with your wireless phone numbers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308specialfocus.html

13) SIP catches on

Vendors at VoiceCon 2004 introduced support for Session Initiation Protocol that they say will lead to more efficient routing of IP traffic and enable presence-based applications.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308voiceconside.html

14) Customers: Ebbers charges send a message

News that former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers faces criminal charges for his role in the country’s worst accounting scandal is being cheered by customers and industry experts who see accountability as key to discouraging future shenanigans.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308ebbers.html

15) SCO takes Linux battle to users

The SCO Group has stepped up its campaign to protect its intellectual property rights by making good on a promise to take aim at end users, but despite the flurry of legal activity last week customers and industry observers remain steadfast in their support of Linux.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308sco.html

16) Wireless LAN industry starts raising antennas over MIMO

Wireless LANs soon will start doubling or more in throughput and range if a smart antenna technology dubbed MIMO pans out as its backers anticipate.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308mimo.html

17) IBM targets vertical markets, SMBs

Users can expect to see more products from IBM flavored with industry-specific capabilities and aimed at midsize companies. At least that’s the message from IBM’s most senior executives, who turned out last week to woo some of Big Blue’s 90,000 business partners – a lucrative sect responsible for $29 billion of IBM’s $89 billion 2003 revenue.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308ibmpartner.html

18) Companies take cover as worm war breaks out

An Internet gang war of sorts broke out last week as the creators of two mass-mailer computer worms battled to outdo each other by releasing a dozen variants of the worms, called Bagle and Netsky, in rapid-fire fashion.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308wormworld.html

19) Linux to star at Novell conference

Attendees heading to Novell’s annual BrainShare customer conference later this month should anticipate the company announcing a variety of products designed to flesh out its Linux strategy.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308brainshare.html

20) Dunn discusses comeback of Nortel

After free falling for three years, Nortel has stabilized, and landed some big deals, including a VoIP coup with Verizon. CEO Frank Dunn recently discussed the state of his company and the industry with Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix, Managing Editor of The Edge Jim Duffy and Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308carrnortelqa.html

21) MCI offers DoS safety net

MCI last week announced its first service-level agreement that covers response time for denial-of-service attacks directed at its customers.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308mcisla.html