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Get Your Patch On: Patch Tuesday Yields Five Critical Patches
by Alex Woodie
The first Patch Tuesday in two months came and went yesterday, and we're now left with eight new patches to fix more than a dozen new vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Microsoft considers five of the patches to be "critical"--the most severe rating on the company's scale--and three of them to be "important." Windows server shops will be most concerned with critical vulnerabilities in the first release of Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2000 Service Pack (SP) 3 that could allow attackers to take over machines. READ MORE >
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What Does Microsoft's Latest Windows-Versus-Linux Test Show?
by Alex Woodie
Microsoft continues to add more material to its 'Get the Facts' Web site to bolster the case for Windows against Linux. The latest addition, which was posted last week, describes a series of tests that were structured to determine which production X86-server environment was easier to set up and run--the one running Windows Server 2003, or the one running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. We'll give you one try to guess who came out on top. (Here's a hint: It wasn't the Linux.) READ MORE >
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IBM Makes a NAS Play
by Alex Woodie
IBM signaled it's ready to grab its share of the network attached storage (NAS) market last week with the formation of an OEM partnership with Network Appliance, a key competitor to one of IBM's biggest rivals, EMC. Big Blue also unveiled the eServer Storage Server, its new line of Windows-based NAS devices with Intel-based xSeries servers running Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003. READ MORE >
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As I See It: The Next Job Wave
by Victor Rozek
There are always jobs available to people who don't care how they earn their money or what kind of world they are laboring to fashion. Pimps do OK, so do sweat shop owners, so do arms dealers. Conscience alone is an unreliable brake on the economic engine. So when George Carlin says it's about what you'll do for a dollar, and what you'll do with a dollar, he means that we make economic choices and that those choices have consequences. For IT professionals unconcerned with consequences, job opportunities abound in the great American surveillance society. READ MORE >
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2. The opportunity to be immersed in another culture while using your technical knowledge to assist emerging economies.
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But Wait, There's More
Microsoft to Pay Gateway $150 Million to Resolve Lingering Anti-Trust Claims . . . Free Support for Visual Basic 6.0 Ends . . . HPC Edition of Windows to Ship Next Year, Server Chief Says . . . New Program Helps ISVs With Development Issues . . . MSN Exits Contract with Major League Baseball . . . Microsoft Clears Last Minute Hurdle, Completes Groove Networks Acquisition . . . Gartner Says Midrange Companies Are Gun Shy About IT Investments . . . READ MORE >
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We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >
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Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
Timothy Prickett Morgan, Victor Rozek, Kevin Vandever, Hesh Wiener
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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