Search engine roulette; Microsoft interoperability team: Bring on Red Hat

Daily News: AM This newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft Big network, big savings In four case studies, learn how Microsoft System Center delivers cost savings, automation, management and monitoring to large enterprises with worldwide infrastructures. Go inside HSBC, Dell, Nissan and EDS to discover how they're easing massive management burdens and desktop support. Network World Daily News: AM, 06/18/07 Search engine roulette: sites rarely agree on top results The most popular Web search engines rarely deliver the same results when identical queries are performed on each site, and the disparity has increased over the past two years, new research has found. Microsoft interoperability team: Bring on Red Hat Leaders of Microsoft's strategy to make its products more interoperable with competitive technologies said the company still hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat similar to the partnerships it's forged with Linux vendors Novell, Xandros and Linspire. ColdSpark expands management, monitoring features of message control platform ColdSpark is packing policy, security, control and high-performance around the age-old message transport platform. Network World Storage Buyer's Guide If you're in the market for anything from a tape library to an on-line backup service to a complete, drop-it-in-place SAN Solution, check out this Buyer's Guide with close to 200 products divided among specific, storage market segments. Click Here Online crime group logs millionth complaint Online consumers in the U.S. have had a million things to complain about. Literally. Infor confirms layoffs at newly acquired vendors Applications vendor Infor Global Solutions has laid off employees at Hansen Information Technologies and Workbrain, two companies it recently acquired, Infor confirmed today. Open source software service touts simplified data integration Open source data integration vendor Talend is now delivering its product in a software-as-a-service model, the company said Monday. Start-up pledges to secure Oracle databases Start-up Sentrigo enters Oracle database-security market. What SMBs expect from backup software Small and midsize businesses would rather chew tin foil, an industry pundit says, than spend money on enterprise backup software that is little suited to their needs. Senior Editor Deni Connor recently talked to George Symons, CEO of Yosemite Technologies, about what SMBs really need in backup software. This is an edited transcript. EBay attempts to welcome back store owners EBay is wooing store owners after a series of decisions by the online retail giant frustrated some merchants. Blogs Buzzblog: Ancestry.com to offer DNA service Not recommended for those considering a career in crime. Today at Cisco Subnet We welcome back Routing TCP/IP author Jeff Doyle as a regular blogger to Cisco Subnet. In his return blog, he examines EIGRP vs. OSPF, and in future postings will discuss IP infrastructure best practices for current and future networks. Meanwhile, the Brad Reese on Cisco blog wonders whether Cisco certification candidates are forced to cheat as there appears to be a lack of training materials for certain Cisco exams; and Author Expert Denise Donohue wonders whether we'll be using all-VoIP in our homes in the future. Plus: Cisco has cash and services to give away; Cisco's end-to-end IPTV package for service providers impresses testers; and blogger Chris Kasten figures out how to get a Cisco VPN Concentrator to establish a LAN-to-LAN tunnel with a Symantec firewall - after working 7 hours on the problem. The beginning of the end of Windows? Microsoft’s patent licensing deals, such as the one signed with Linspire, could actually mean the end is in sight for Windows. Analyst Dennis Byron reasons that the software giant maybe preparing for a SaaS-y new direction. PowerShell: A Cinderella story PowerShell has been the secret princess of the development groups at Microsoft, says author expert Tyson Kopczynksi. He offers the inside skinny on how the Internet Information Services (IIS) group has whipped up loads of management functions with the super scripting language. Be an Enterprise All-Star Call for entries: Enterprise All-Star We're now accepting nominations for our third-annual Enterprise All-Star Award. The Enterprise All-Star Awards program honors user organizations that demonstrate exceptional use of network technology to further business objectives. Consider entering your great projects now. Find an entry form here.

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