Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Taylor Dondich, senior developer at GroundWork Open Source, says open source management tools are enterprise ready
The combination worm/botnet, discovered by eEye Digital Security, can execute arbitrary code with system privileges on targeted machines
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski puts first year behind him, sizes up the next.
SEC extends Sarbox deadline for smaller companies to Dec. 15, 2007.
DNSstuff.com cites high number of misconfigured domains
University of Minnesota readies Web site for tracking, analyzing the Internet
Fidelity Investments and State Street Corp. are making the transition to SOA environments
Vendor execs, industry analysts share their thoughts -- and take shots
Online retailer works to avoid Web site downtime during the busy holiday shopping season.
A proposed kernel patch would honor the "undeletable" bit in the file attributes, by putting the file in a per-user trash instead of erasing it entirely.
IBM’s free OmniFind Yahoo Edition takes aim at Google, Microsoft offerings
ProSight and Pertmaster deals build out Primavera Systems’ project management offerings
Company reorganizes emerging technology efforts, geared toward internal start-ups
Clubs, social events, meetings all keep telecommuters in the corporate loop
Start-up Agito takes aim at easing on-site corporate workers mobility
Performance management vendor upgrades agentless monitoring software with dashboard, event monitor and enhanced reporting features
Sun surpassed HP and trails only IBM in Gabriel Consulting Group’s newly released Unix Vendor Preference Survey
Software upgrade lets PacketShapers monitor, control Flash.
And yes, the FCC chairman is a ringer for Harry Potter, according to face-recognition system
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