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Current Issue: September 25, 2006 Issue 39

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SPECIAL REPORTS

Macs edge toward the datacenter
Today, products from that quirky company in Cupertino are about as likely to appear in the back office as the proverbial snowball. But will Intel chips and Leopard's new features change the odds?

How you will pay for software
Software-as-a-service, dual-core processors, and virtualization are changing the software licensing game

FEATURES

The next wave of software licensing
The old licensing models are crumbling -- craeting confusion as well as the potential for cost savings

Pay as you go, but how much?

An Apple for the enterprise?
Say what? Macs in the mainstream -- even on a server rack? InfoWorld's Tom Yager revisits time-honored, anti-Mac objections now that Leopard and 64-bit x86 chips are in the mix

Leopard leaps in

Mac Pro: Woodcrest goes to work

NEWSMAKERS

Ben Fathi: looking beyond Vista

TECH WATCH

BEA''s 360 vision still fuzzy

Demofall to highlight Java Wares

EMC moves on data management, security

Motorola hatching big plans for Symbol

TEST CENTER

Surgient delivers virtual test labs

Vizioncore''s got VMware''s back

Exclusive: Scalent Virtual Operating Environment puts new twist on the adaptive datacenter

OPINIONS

Editor's Letter Steve Fox

From the Analysts David L. Margulius

Ahead of the Curve Tom Yager

Strategic Developer Jon Udell

Off the Record Anonymous

Enterprise Windows Oliver Rist

Security Adviser Roger A. Grimes

Storage Insider Mario Apicella

Open Enterprise Neil McAllister

Notes From the Field Robert X. Cringely®

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