Opinion

12800 reasons

* Cisco tops off high end . . . for now

Separate but equal?

* OPM struggles to create parity between teleworkers and in-office workers

What to do about scumware?

* Backspin columnist Mark Gibbs sings The Scumware Song

Expand Networks adds ExpandView to Accelerator gear

* New add-on lets users build self-healing apps traffic management system

Mailbag: Jumbo roadblocks

* Readers weigh in on Jumbo Frames

NetFlash: Vendors on holiday shopping spree

EMC buys VMWare for $635 million

Novell and Linux

* Novell plans to release Novell-style file management/file services on Linux

SMS: Cool, but cumbersome

* Pros and limitations of Short Message Service

This week on Network World Fusion, 12/15/03

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Catalysts for growth – and what’s missing

* What's possible in 2004?

Zen and the art of Cascading Style Sheets

* The Zen of the css Zen Garden

Preparing for life beyond VPNs

Shaping federation standards

Packeteer enables net execs to control music file-swapping services

* Packeteer aims to allow managers to limit bandwidth available for music downloads

Year-end reflections

2003: Spam, talking fish, spam, jiggling toilets, spam

* Year-end musings, 2003

A holiday gift from Microsoft?

* Microsoft declares December a patch-free month

Rejecting shopping accounts

DesktopX marks the spot

Operating system humor: No funny business

Looking back at our 2003 predictions

Convergence: This time the hype was justified

Liberty Alliance members test for interoperability

* Which vendors were pronounced conformant to the Liberty Specification?

Emerging 802.21 standard to address inter-network handoffs

* New IEEE committee for inter-network handoffs to begin work in March

Novell continues to walk like a penguin, joining OSDL

* Novell joins Open Source Development Lab

Separate but equal?

PR on the cheap

An experiment in opting out

What to do about scumware?