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	Do We Need Another Browser? Does RockMelt? I am writing this post via the web, inside of RockMelt, the new browser financed by Netscape co-founder Mark Andreessen and built by some of his old colleagues. For those of you who are not familiar with RockMelt, it is built on the Chromium open source code, just as Google's Chrome is. In fact saying it is built on it does not do it justice. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Collecting Compliance Evidence: The Role of Event Logs This Quest Software white paper discusses how to maximize the power of event logs. You'll learn about recent regulation changes, how your company can best prepare for an audit and the solution you need to address these issues. Read More In this Issue Best Networking Tweaks for Windows Server, Vista and XP Why Canonical should buy System76 'We've seen this movie before' Apache to Oracle: We're leaving the Java Community Process Cisco's CleanAir - My Hands-On Review WHITE PAPER: IBM Top 5 IT Budget Killers For businesses to be competitive today, they need to cut costs and improve their products and services. But how can businesses do more with less? This IBM® ebook introduces you to the 5 biggest IT budget killers: Storage expansion, system complexity, hardware sprawl, reliability and scalability. And reveals how you can eliminate them. Read Now Best Networking Tweaks for Windows Server, Vista and XP Like most Sys Admins, my job includes managing both Linux and Windows machines. This is the start of a two-part series regarding tweaks I have found for networking in each type of system. First up: Windows. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Cloud –Inspired Data Center Transformation In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO and Computerworld present the latest thinking and explore the latest trends on how data centers are evolving toward the cloud ideal. Read now! Why Canonical should buy System76 Canonical seems to be pursuing a very Apple-like strategy with Ubuntu. This might be a winning strategy, but the company is missing one major piece: Its own hardware. Canonical needs to stop waiting on mainstream OEMs to get excited about Linux on the desktop and buy its own OEM, like System76. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Fostering IT Efficiency Trading Floor Electronic trading floors are among the most volatile, demanding business IT environments. And they are sorely in need for a technological overhaul in today's global markets. Read on to find out how the trader desktop can be simplified with back-racking computer power and lead to an energy-efficient trading environment. Learn More Today! 'We've seen this movie before' I worked for a newspaper a decade ago where a reporter, of his own volition, set up a wi-fi network in the newsroom. We loved it but when corporate found out about it, they shut it off, believing our competitors would park outside our office and see what stories we were working on. Sigh. Read More Apache to Oracle: We're leaving the Java Community Process The Apache Software Foundation is usually a nice, quiet organization that supports the development of quite a lot of open source software. Unlike the Free Software Foundation, it doesn't usually get political or controversial. But the ASF is calling Oracle out over its handling of the Java Community Process (JCP). Read More Cisco's CleanAir - My Hands-On Review Spectral assurance in WLAN infrastructure is going to become a key requirement in enterprise wireless LANs. Cisco got there first, and my testing of their ClearAir technology shows that it works as advertised. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES FTC appoints cool hacker as first chief technologist Amazon regains senses, pulls pedophile how-to book Microsoft opens new front with cloud-based Windows Server Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Virus infecting phones in China costs you $300,000 a day Google, Facebook duke it out over user data Windows 7 upgrades stalled by IE6 holdouts 12 amazing productivity boosters
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