Microvell to exhume ADU?: Many a pundit has weighed in on the potential impact of the Microsoft-Novell pairing. Tossing in another two-plus cents is Tom Yager, who foresees the Microvell pact resulting in the return of Advanced Server for Unix (ASU), once a rival to Samba that fell out of favor in the IT world. "A proprietary ASU-like Windows interoperability product bearing Novell’s logo would become a standard purchase with practically every commercial Linux sale," Yager proclaims. But the implications are chilling.
Breaking down collaboration barriers: Jon Udell reveals how we at InfoWorld track our vacation days: HR sends us a calendar made in an Excel sheet. We download it, open it up, put Vs in the appropriate cells to denote vacation days, reattach it, and e-mail it back. There has to be a more elegant way to collaborate, Udell argues. The problem, he says, is that we lack a universal canvas, "an environment in which data and applications flow freely on the Web." Microsft and Google are both halfway there, at least -- but there's work still work to be done.
Know thy user's browser: Sometimes, your company's Web site is only as good as the browser it's viewed in. Some homegrown sniffers are capable of determining that, but InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck has found a useful commercial tool that achieves the task and then some: cyScape BrowserHawk 10. The solution "lets Web professionals accurately detect visitors' browser and system settings to make sure they have the best online experience."
Posted by Ted Samson on November 29, 2006 06:00 AM
