Sprint Nextel ready to pull plug on legacy nets; Open-source community scoffs at Microsoft threats

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft Don't Waste IT Staff A hosted messaging solution lets you free up your staff for projects that provide a competitive advantage for your enterprise. Click here to download this whitepaper from Osterman Research and learn how hosted messaging meets all your needs for less than an in-house solution. Get facts on ROI and more. Network World Daily News: PM, 05/15/07 Sprint Nextel getting ready to pull plug on legacy nets Sprint’s legacy data networks are on life support. Frame relay and ATM customers need to make migration plans now. Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats Open-source supporters are thumbing their noses at Microsoft Corp.'s claim that it will seek royalties from users and distributors on 235 patents it holds for technologies in Linux and open-source software, saying they are not worried about ... Microsoft patent claims hint at internal issues Microsoft Corp.'s aim to seek patent royalties from open-source distributors and users may be an attempt to use legal threats to deflect attention from larger questions surrounding its business, including lack of interest in new versions of core ... Data Center Power & Cooling Options Tune into this webcast on Data Center Power and Cooling Options for tips and advice on how to prepare your data center for the future. Network World's Editor-in-Chief John Dix discusses current data center challenges and how to overcome them with data center expert Robert McFarlane of Shen, Milson & Wilke. Click to watch today! U.S. senators take outsourcing firms to woodshed over H-1B use Two U.S. senators - a Democrat and a Republican - are taking aim at nine prominent outsourcing companies demanding that they explain their use of the H-1B program. IBM wires telemedicine network for military hospitals IBM and healthcare technology vendor VISICU are wiring a telemedicine network that will provide remote critical-care support to military hospitals along the Pacific Rim, the companies announced this week. U.S. ISPs slam into wiretap deadline U.S. broadband and VoIP providers on Monday hit a deadline to prove they could accommodate law-enforcement wiretaps. How satisfied are Microsoft customers? Making customers happy, some experts say, is the fine art of balancing experience and expectation. Based on that, the feeling of Microsoft Corp. customers is starting to edge ever so slightly towards the disappointment end of the spectrum, according ... Funambol upgrades open source BlackBerry rival Funambol is offering a new version of its open source software for delivering push e-mail, address book and calendar functions similar to those available on BlackBerry devices.

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