Network Computing Report #385
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Monday, January 17, 2005

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In This Issue:
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1)  Managing Offshore
    - Market Analysis: NWC Inc. Ventures Offshore
    - Product Analysis: Imported Java
    - Managing Offshore/Outsourcing Special
2)  Reviews and How-Tos
    - Quick Review: Motorola's MPx220
    - Sneak Preview: Novell's Linux Desktop 9
    - Sneak Preview: Reactivity's 2400 Series Gateway and Manager with
       XOS 4.1
    - Workshop: What is ITIL?
    - Secure Enterprise: Deployment Guide: Using AD for Linux
       Authentication
3)  Reader Reverb
    - Last Mile: Admin Training Course From Hell
    - Top 11: End Zone Celebration
    - Affordable IT Archive
    - Letters
    - Managing Content Newsletter
    - Subscribe Today!
4)  Calling All Readers
    - IT Exam: The Command Center
    - IT Exam: Application Security
    - Call for Entries: 2005 Predictions
    - Call for Votes: Best Top 11 Vote
    - Network Magazine's Innovation Awards
5)  The Daily Blog
    - I Was Wrong
    - Active Defense
    - Cisco, Smart on Dumb Airespace?
6)  Opinion
    - BuzzCut: Oracle Sets New Staff, Direction for PeopleSoft
    - BuzzCut: Symantec-Veritas Deal Paves Integration Path
    - Reality IT: No Profit in a Fast Employee Axe
    - Secure Enterprise: Fundamentals: Must-Read Security Books
7)  Your Monday IT Briefing
    - The Silver Lining in SOX
    - Extreme Networks Debuts Architecture for Converged Networks, VoIP
    - The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
    - Firefox 1.0: The New Champ?
    - IBM: The Transformer
8)  Coming Events
    - Deploying Performance Management to Drive Efficiencies & Lower
       Costs
    - Gain Maximum Business Value From Your Outsourcing Relationship
    - Wily J2EE Application Performance Series 2005, Part 1:
       Understanding the Application Crisis Lifecycle
    - VoIP: Implementation Strategies for the Corporate Enterprise
9)  CMP MarketPlace

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on Monday,
January 24, 2005.


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1) Managing Offshore
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a) Market Analysis: NWC Inc. Ventures Offshore
By Don MacVittie
We take an inside look at the controversial trend of offshore
application development. No matter how you perceive outsourcing, it's a
sure bet that it will affect your business. Find out how.
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b) Product Analysis: Imported Java
By Don MacVittie
We contracted with a well-known Indian outsourcer to develop an
application for our fictional NWC Inc. What we learned will help you
decide if offshore is right for your enterprise.
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c) Managing Offshore/Outsourcing Special
In conjunction with Don MacVittie's Managing Offshore/Outsourcing cover
package, where he completed a full outsourcing project with business
process outsourcing provider Patni Computer Systems, we're pleased to
bring you these online-only specials:

NWC's Requirement Document.
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Patni's Full RFP Response.
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Functional Spec Created by Patni.
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Also, be sure to listen in to our exclusive interviews with Don
MacVittie for a behind-the-scenes look at his analysis of Patni and his
take on the future of application development.
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2) Reviews and How-Tos
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a) Quick Review: Motorola's MPx220
By Michael Brandenburg
Here's a quick look at Motorola's new MPx220. Find out how it makes
global connectivity easier and more flexible than ever.
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b) Sneak Preview: Novell's Linux Desktop 9
By Michael J. DeMaria
Improvements to SuSE put NDL 9 in the ballpark, but missing bits keep 
it
out of the championships.
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c) Sneak Preview: Reactivity's 2400 Series Gateway and Manager with XOS 
4.1
By Lori MacVittie
This appliance provides security that is anything but reactive.
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d) Workshop: IT Best Practices With ITIL
By Bruce Boardman
We give you the lowdown on the IT Infrastructure Library. This IT
best-practices model is grabbing the attention of enterprises,
especially those under regulatory pressures.
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e) Secure Enterprise: Deployment Guide: Using AD for Linux
Authentication
By Jonathan Feldman
Linux and Windows can be friends, at least enough to share a common
directory. The magic of LDAP combined with the crunchy security 
goodness
of SSL make for a duo that combines the stability of Linux with the
pervasiveness of Redmond.
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3) Reader Reverb
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a) Last Mile: Admin Training Course From Hell
By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
This edition: Signs you're attending a bad Windows admin training
course, the difference between soap and SOAP, and passive-aggressive
punctuation.
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b) Top 11: End Zone Celebration
This issue, we're looking for the "Top 11 ways Larry Ellison secretly
celebrated the successful acquisition of PeopleSoft." Make us chuckle,
and we'll publish your entry in print and online. Here are a couple of
ideas to get you started.
--Gave gardener the day off and used a samurai sword to personally 
groom
the shrubs.
--Hired sky writers to emblazon San Francisco sky with the words, "I
Rock!"
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c) Affordable IT Archive
We've recently created a new article index for all our Affordable IT
coverage. Help stay in-line with your 2005 IT budget with our handy
archive of how-tos, reviews and pointers on the products and practices
that will save you money.
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d) Letters
Thanks to all those readers who submitted letters in response to Rob
Preston's recent "Down to Business: Offshore Outsourcing Prevention
Starts at Home" column. Check out what your fellow readers had to say.
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Got more to say! Send your letters to Rob here:
(mailto:editor@nwc.com)

e) Managing Content Newsletter
Tired of wrangling unstructured data? Let industry veteran Doug
Henschen, in his newly launched Managing Content newsletter, bring you
valuable insights, opinions and pointers on important objectives 
ranging
from content reuse and multichannel publishing to content-enabling
applications and business process management. Subscribe today!
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f) Subscribe Today!
Subscribe to the full print edition of Network Computing! Click below 
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4) Calling All Readers
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a) IT Exam: The Command Center
Do you know the main characteristics and goals of a Network Operations
Center (NOC) or Command Center? Does it focus on help desk issues or
does it consist solely of network and systems monitoring? Take our IT
Exam to find out if your company is fully and correctly using its
version of the Bat Cave.
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b) IT Exam: Application Security
Put your application security savvy to the test with our new IT Exam. 
Do
you know how many vulnerabilities lurk within 1,000 lines of code? Do
you know which application attack method is most common and most
effective? Let us rate your current readiness and know-how.
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c) Last Call for Entries: 2005 Predictions
Help us ring in the New Year with your most likely and unlikely
networking predictions for 2005. Tell us what will most certainly take
place in IT in 2005 as well as what you'd like to see happen if you had
your druthers.
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d) Last Call for Votes: Best Top 11 Vote
Now that 2004 has come to a close, we invite you to cast your vote for
the year's best Top 11 list. Was it Steve Balmer's secret iPod music
stash, the many ways a Roomba robotic vacuum could improve your IT
department or the best 'MacGyver Methods' for restoring power to the
server closet? Cast your vote today.
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e) Network Magazine's Innovation Awards
Vendors, now is the time to nominate your best products and
technological innovations from 2004. Our editors will then select the
Most Influential Innovation, Best Value and Most Visionary Innovation
across 10 technology categories. To nominate a product, product
enhancement, or technology demonstrated or released in 2004 for a
Network Innovation award, visit:
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5) The Daily Blog
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a) I Was Wrong
OK, so they got me. Only a couple of days ago I called up Airespace and
then wrote here that any merger was a way off. Little did I know that
the "way" was about 48 hours.
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b) Active Defense
A couple of days ago, I attended one day of the Department of Defense
Cyber Crime Conference 2005. I was only there one day because that was
the only day they had sessions that weren't classified. That I was 
there
at all, though, was a novelty, since this was the first time (in the
four years of the conference) that they've invited anyone from the
press.
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c) Cisco, Smart on Dumb Airespace?
The big news today is Cisco's bid to buy Airespace for $450 million.
Most of the pundits are on track with their remarks, but Frank 
Dzubeck's
comments in the Wall Street Journal about Cisco not having a "dumb
strategy" are absolutely hilarious. It is not so much because they are 
a
clever play on words, but more because it indicates how dumb the
industry's perception can be.
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Read more entries from The Daily Blog.
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6) Opinion
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a) BuzzCut: Oracle Sets New Staff, Direction for PeopleSoft
By Lori MacVittie
With Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft complete, big changes are bound to
be in store for the ERP technology--particularly at the app server and
RDBMS levels.
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b) BuzzCut: Symantec-Veritas Deal Paves Integration Path
By Curtis Franklin Jr.
It won't be long before the data center recognizes consolidation 
between
security technology and conventional network infrastructure technology.
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c) Reality IT: No Profit in a Fast Employee Axe
By Hunter Metatek
Before letting go of that challenging but potential-filled employee,
consider your options--including counseling and training.
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d) Secure Enterprise: Fundamentals: Must-Read Security Books 
By Mike Fratto
Information security is a knowledge war. The person who knows the most
wins. Plus, you must keep track of vulnerabilities and risks as well as
strategies and techniques to repel attacks. Here are the books to keep
close by.
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7) Your Monday IT Briefing
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Here are some of the must-read news stories we're following this week.

a) The Silver Lining in SOX
Use Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives to justify automation,
eliminate spreadsheets and get built-in process auditability and 
control. 
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b) Extreme Networks Debuts Architecture for Converged Networks, VoIP
The company claims its new architecture requires fewer network layers
and switching elements, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership.
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c) The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
What will 2005 bring for Linux and open-source software? We have no
idea, but we'll share our thoughts anyway, along with some of yours.
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d) Firefox 1.0: The New Champ?
A triumph of the alternative development model, Mozilla's new browser
can make believers out of even loyal Internet Explorer proponents.
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e) IBM: The Transformer
IBM's new strategy promises business-process innovation.
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You can find links to these and other breaking news stories organized 
by
technology via our handy NetNews Service.
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8) Coming Events
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a) Deploying Performance Management to Drive Efficiencies & Lower Costs
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
11:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM CST / 2:00 PM EST
Participants will learn how performance management methodologies and
solutions are helping insurers and other financial institutions improve
their performance and profitability while taking risk into 
consideration.
You will also gain insight into the power of integrating the general 
ledger, account,
transaction, customer and statistical analysis data together to
truly understand profitability across the enterprise.

Register now and learn more about how performance management can help
your organization improve the bottom line.
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b) An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast: Gain Maximum
Business Value From Your Outsourcing Relationship
Thursday, January 20, 2005
11:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM CST / 2:00 PM EST
Whether your company sees IT as a strategic weapon or simply as a
"business enabler" or cost center, the outsourcing model has tremendous
appeal. Yet along with the benefits of outsourcing come added 
complexity
and risk. The cost savings achieved from outsourcing can be more than
offset by the business cost of frustrated customers and end users as a
result of poor-quality applications. Register and receive guidance on
how to establish "strategic sourcing" relationships that deliver 
maximum
business value.
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c) An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast: Wily J2EE
Application Performance Series 2005, Part 1: Understanding the
Application Crisis Lifecycle
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
9:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM CST / 12:00 Noon EST
Managing critical Web applications can seem like an unpredictable 
series
of chaotic crises. However, Wily experts and customers have seen that 
to
manage application performance issues and maintain control demands that
you establish and follow a defined series of steps. Following the steps
can result in shorter downtime, more consistent application performance
and better utilization of your IT teams. In this TechWebCast, learn why
today's Web applications make the application crisis inevitable, the 
key
to faster problem resolution, why you cannot solve the problems alone
and how to engage the right resources to isolate and solve the problem.
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d) VoIP: Implementation Strategies for the Corporate Enterprise
Thursday, January 27, 2005
9:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM CST / 12:00 Noon EST
VoIP has long been on the list as a potential corporate cost-cutting
tool for technology executives. But the potential for VoIP goes well
beyond its ability to deliver savings on long distance charges. Many
companies are recognizing VoIP as a viable business proposition, with
significant cost reduction, improved productivity, increased innovation
and 24/7 access to corporate information as the most likely long-range
benefits. Still, despite these upsides, the quality of service, uptime
and potential security risks make IT managers apprehensive of
implementing enterprisewide VoIP. In this TechWebCast, editors from
InformationWeek, Network Computing and Network Magazine will discuss 
the
business drivers and network architectural requirements for 
implementing
corporate-wide VoIP.
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