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'Net Insider by Scott Bradner Microsoft: Invisible patents as a uniform
Fortune magazine thought the story was important enough to put above the magazine's name on the front cover of its May 28 ...

Op-ed A call to action against Microsoft's open source threats
Once again, Microsoft has hoisted the canard that there are 235 Microsoft patents that open source products, largely Linux ...

Dr. Internet by Steve Blass Database tricks
What commands would I use from the MySQL command line to recreate a large database table's structure without having to type ...

by Steve Blass Ask. Dr. Internet
I'm looking for a stripped-down Linux distribution to use on a specialized network server. What do you ...

Yankee Ingenuity by Howard Anderson A cynic rips open source
I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and ...

Strategy Session by Jeff Kaplan Automated network-management tools to the rescue
One of the fundamental challenges facing network professionals is balancing ongoing responsibilities with reacting to daily ...

Letters: There's no free (open source) lunch
The cost of software must include installation, configuration and maintenance, and depending on the particular software and ...

Letters: Cisco re-sellers fight back
Phil Hochmuth's story "Cisco looking to counter used gear competitors" doesn't mention that IBM, long a bellwether of ...

Dr. Internet by Steve Blass Looking for Windows troubleshooting tool
I'm looking for a Windows troubleshooting and monitoring tool that would act similar to a firewall at the process level to ...

Above the Cloud by James Kobielus Welcome to the appliance wars
Over the past few years, enterprise software vendors have ventured well beyond their traditional focus on licensed software ...

Cool Tools by Keith Shaw Verizon V-Cast needs some work
Verizon Wireless was nice (or smart) enough to hand out a bunch of mobile phones loaded with its V Cast Mobile TV service to ...

Telecom Catalyst by Daniel Briere Where have all the good phones gone?
In my office, I get to try out all sorts of new gear and technologies. And with all this testing come boxes full of gear ...

Tolly on Technology by Kevin Tolly Open source and secret sauce
 A few weeks back, one of The Tolly Group’s testing clients got a fair bit of press when it announced test results showing ...

Cool Tools by Keith Shaw Sony ships new VAIO
The arrival of spring brings rain showers, flower gardens and, of course, new colorful notebooks. Sony recently announced ...

Gearhead by Mark Gibbs Delivering audio
In the last two weeks we've cleaned up our MP3 collection, played with Wi-Fi, looked at the annoyingly high radio frequency ...

 

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