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• FUD motivated Microsoft SuSE deal: analyst

  Microsoft's decision to partner with Novell was driven by a desire to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) in the minds of those considering a move to Linux -- and to sell more copies of Windows, according to analysts.

• McAfee unafraid of Microsoft's 'part-time' security effort

  Antivirus firm McAfee's president believes the company will be able to compete with Microsoft after the software giant launches its OneCare Live security products -- because security is not something you can do "part-time".

• McAfee acts to avoid signature quality issues

  Antivirus firm McAfee has overhauled its quality control and software testing procedures to avoid repeating a mistake last month that caused a signature update to flag Microsoft Excel as a virus.

• Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres

  A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts suggested in a research note published this week.

• Security vendors prepare for a bloodbath

  The booming security market is heading for a bloodbath with both vendors and analysts expecting the number of companies selling security applications to fall from more than 700 today to just a handful by the end of the decade.

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  Boot Camp: an expensive downgrade for your Mac?

  So Apple has launched Boot Camp, which is a piece of software that allows its customers to choose between Windows XP and OS X when booting up. But if you have OS X, why would you downgrade?

Features and Case Studies (8)

• Why do good employees leave?

  A new company launched recently hopes to help HR departments better understand why employees leave.

• Hackers: Under the hood

  Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

• Keeping the door open...and shut

  A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like?

• SCO backs off Linux invoice plan

  SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to prod corporate users into buying licenses to use Linux, an operating system the company argues violates its Unix intellectual property.

• Did SCO open Unix source code?

  Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

Reviews (1)

• Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

  These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

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