Opinion

The Value of Solutions Vendors

Battle of the Brains

Yapping drivers can’t see either

Apple’s legendary flip flops

Cellphones: The new ninja weapon?

My Treo ate my appointment

Gaming prank draws bomb squad

And Dewey sank the winning shot

Making sure the apps your senior managers care about work well over the WAN

* Why benchmark your major new applications?

CLECs CTC Communications, Choice One and Conversent to combine their businesses

* Also, Nortel simplifies its professional services portfolio; and Verizon adds application awareness to VPN

Take responsibility

* Show your clients and fellow employees that you give a hoot

Mailbag: Readers love GroupWise but their bosses prefer Microsoft

* Microsoft elbows out Novell GroupWise

Verizon offers tuning tools for its VPN service

* Verizon adds prioritizing treatment to its Private IP VPN service

ICT releases enterprise acceleration tool

* AcceleNet 3.0 Enterprise

Novell loses another SuSE chief

* SuSE CTO leaves Novell

Time to bring Cisco, Microsoft and standards together for access control

* Cisco, Microsoft take different approaches to access control

The 2006 Enterprise All-Star Awards

* Nominations for Network World's 2006 Enterprise All-Star Awards being accepted now.

Is it time for a chief branch architect?

* Organizations need someone creating and coordinating a technology strategy for the branch office

Azul doubles up processors to accelerate Java apps

* Azul demonstrates a 48-core processor on a single chip

NetFlash: Microsoft makes Virtual Server 2005 R2 a free download

Microsoft makes Virtual Server 2005 R2 a free download

Alcatel, Lucent agree to merge

Start-up makes 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters available

* IBM and HP choose start-up NetXen's NIC technology

What’s happening with HP storage? Part 1

* Low down of storage at HP

Video fun with avatars and Skype; Getting the upper hand on your e-mail

He’ll never misplace his car keys

Readers gang up on columnist

Hot Seat: Taking on Google in the enterprise

New contest starts today

A gesture they can afford