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* Novell preps Linux Desktop 10 * Beyond the blog hype * Fast-forward learning with screencasting * Novell ZENworks 7 targets cross-platform management * Anatomy of an IT disaster: How the FBI blew it * Hosted apps vendors clash over the great ASP debate * Novell to add more open source to exteNd * Product Guide: GreenBorder Professional Edition 2.7.2 * Blogs: Hat tip to Jon Stewart

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NOVELL PREPS LINUX DESKTOP 10

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell's Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said here this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EBF:353CA35

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BEYOND THE BLOG HYPE

Without a doubt, 2004 was the breakthrough year for blogs. If my consumption of various media so far this year is any indication, journalists at traditional media organizations must now be having regular meetings to decide which one of them will create the "blog story" for the current deadline cycle. Whereas television network journalists used to interview actual people regularly, we now see anchors cutting over to correspondents staring at computer screens as props representing the expertise of the collective "blogosphere." Soon, we may reach the saturation point. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC0:353CA35

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FAST-FORWARD LEARNING WITH SCREENCASTING

As I continue to explore and develop screencasting, I'm finding new and unexpected uses for it. Here's one that took me completely by surprise. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC3:353CA35

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NOVELL ZENWORKS 7 TARGETS CROSS-PLATFORM MANAGEMENT

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Novell on Monday introduced a new version of its ZENworks systems management suite that is designed to offer full lifecycle management for Linux and Windows systems. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC5:353CA35

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ANATOMY OF AN IT DISASTER: HOW THE FBI BLEW IT

Some FBI agents ruefully refer to the trilogy project, a massive initiative to modernize the FBI's aging technology infrastructure, as the "Tragedy" project. It certainly has all the earmarks of tragedy: the best intentions, catastrophic miscommunication, staggering waste. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC6:353CA35

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HOSTED APPS VENDORS CLASH OVER THE GREAT ASP DEBATE

What started as a cute marketing slogan -- "Just say no to software" -- may turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The herd of CRM and ERP ASPs is growing stronger not only in services and features but also in number of customers. And as the herd grows stronger, it's fissuring over whether customers are best served by specialized, industry-specific applications or the tools to customize hosted services for their particular needs. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC2:353CA35

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NOVELL TO ADD MORE OPEN SOURCE TO EXTEND

SALT LAKE CITY - Novell and JBoss have tightened their relationship, the two companies announced on Monday at the BrainShare 2005 conference in Salt Lake City. Novell now plans to co-develop the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) of open source software and to ship a number of the suite's components in the next major release of its exteNd application suite, which is expected in 2006. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C65EC1:353CA35

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PRODUCT GUIDE: GREENBORDER PROFESSIONAL EDITION 2.7.2

GreenBorder works by running all IE and Outlook untrusted content inside a virtual environment. It successfully removes most spyware and malware, but overall protection capability is potentially diminished because it runs malicious code in the virtual environment and against other untrusted networks.

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BLOG: HAT TIP TO JON STEWART

A couple of years ago, in a piece called Google's bias is a temporary anomaly, I wrote about the odd inversion that enabled web pundits ...

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