NetFlash: Microsoft rolls out five-year server roadmap

Microsoft today is laying out a five-year plan for its servers – rather ambitious, given how often the software company adjusts its shipping dates. Still, it’s interesting to see where Microsoft sees its operating system going, and what kinds of features we should expect. Microsoft rolls out five-year server roadmap, pegs Longhorn Server http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0513msserver.html?net

Microsoft today is laying out a five-year plan for its servers – rather ambitious, given how often the software company adjusts its shipping dates. Still, it’s interesting to see where Microsoft sees its operating system going, and what kinds of features we should expect.

Microsoft rolls out five-year server roadmap, pegs Longhorn Server

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0513msserver.html?net

What’s the best way to add wireless LANs to your network?

Keerti Melkote insists that wireless LANs are a completely different animal from wired LANs – and any attempt to add wireless as simply a feature of a wired LAN is opening a security and management Pandora’s box. By contrast, Vipin Jain says the systems need to be united – also for security and management purposes. Who’s right? These two experts debate the topic in this week’s Face-off.

Melkote

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0510faceoffno.html?net

Jain

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0510faceoffyes.html?net

HP buys two service management firms

Continuing its acquisition spree, HP this week announced it is buying two companies that specialize in IT best practices.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0513hpbuy.html?net

Ethernet start-up Covaro launches products

Covaro Networks is rolling out gear that supports Ethernet services over a variety of access lines available between customers’ and service providers’ networks.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0512covaro.html?net

Antiquing, anyone?

Network World is working on our You Issue, our special annual report all about reader’s jobs, salary, future and – this is where you come in – free time. This year, we’re looking for IT/network professionals who spend their weekends rummaging through estate sales and flea markets or antique shops looking for pieces to add their collections. Maybe that’s a vintage Barbie or a Windsor chair – who knows! If you collect for a hobby or know a colleague who does, let us know by e-mailing Brett Cough at mailto:bcough@nww.com

Today on Layer 8, now with fewer carbs:

Baghdad blogger gets movie deal; using camera phones to cheat on tests; finally, video games as an official course of study; and share your IT nightmare, win a D-Link Wireless Access Point; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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