Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
* Vendors finally providing new technologies to the SMB market
* Intellectual-property pirates punished
Two industry experts debate the effect image spam has on networks.
* Patches from Apple, Debian, Gentoo, others * Patient data exposed in two separate security breaches, and other interesting reading
* Existing malware could affect Vista users, Sophos says * Vista blast–off * Top 10 tech leaders * Follow-up: Details of the Antikythera Mechanism mysteries unveiled * Round 2: Testing Firefox 2 against IE 7 * Cool Tools video: Palm's Treo 680 * Buzz
* IEEE has call for interest for energy-efficient Ethernet
Welcome to The Best of Network World. Here is this week's Readers' Choice, with the most-clicked stories of the week.
* 3Com buys out Huawei joint venture for $882 million * Ericsson to buy Entrisphere for about $290 million? * Intel to put pre-standard 802.11n in Centrino * For open source networking, no open source guru required, Vyatta execs say * Q&A: Novell CE
* IBM launches flexible learning systems
* Answers to what comes after the application that comes after VoIP
* Signing a longer-term contract may get you a better deal on IP VPN services
* The Microsoft-Novell deal is just weeks old, and already contentions public statements are flying
* The Virtual Hard Drive program
