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Page 9 12 The Low Down To Save and To Protect FEATURES 28 Making Sense of Microsoft Collaboration The pieces are out there, but fitting them COLUMNS together has proven a long and 4 Barney’s Rubble: Doug Barney confusing process. Saving the World—One Line at a Time 39 Licensing Plan Hopes to Solve Virtualization Dilemma The virtualization locomotive just keeps on coming, and Microsoft has laid new tracks for its licensing. 22 Mr. Roboto: Don Jones Page 28 54 Cool Tools that Shut Down, Redux Rule—and They’re Free! 65 Never Again: Jim Madden Finding the right tool for the job can be difficult and finding The Grass Is Greener in Your it for free next to impossible. But standing next to impossible Own Backyard Page 39 is the Redmond Free Top 25. 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Our free, open source product is sub- Hackers Get More Ways to Hide stantially better than anything offered by Microsoft and Google. ew tools keep popping up that can help hackers hide their identity— Nfrom the custom Firefox browser Torpok, which promises better Will open source applications ever anonymity than any browser before, to The Onion Router, which offers con- make serious inroads in the enterprise? stantly random IP addresses. It’s already happening. SugarCRM, Com- But according to our Security Watch columnist, Cybertrust’s Russ Cooper, piere and Adaptive Planning all see rapid the risk isn’t just from browsing. “From a corporate perspective, the bigger adoption by companies of all sizes. risk here is that the TOR network gets used to set up a server internal to your organization that’s participating in the TOR Where does OpenOffice rank among network,” he writes. “Such a server could be difficult to identify, free apps? given that the traffic to and from it is encrypted via SSL.” It’s gaining momentum, but Microsoft Keep on top of all the technologies you need to watch out Office won’t be displaced for a long time. for by subscribing to Russ’ columns in our Security Watch newsletter. 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All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. © copyright 2006 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1206red_Rubble4.v7 11/14/06 11:43 AM Page 4 Barney’sRubble Doug Barney RedmondTHE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY REDMONDMAG.COM DECEMBER 2006 ■ VOL. 12 ■ NO. 12 Editor in Chief Doug Barney Saving the World: [email protected] Editor Ed Scannell [email protected] Executive Editor, Reviews Lafe Low [email protected] One Line at a Time Executive Editor, Features Carolyn A. April [email protected] Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar [email protected] apitalism is all about exploitation—making workers Editor, Redmondmag.com Becky Nagel [email protected] Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco produce for owners more than they take home in [email protected] Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley wages. That’s how Carnegie, Rockefeller and now Don Jones C Greg Shields Joern Wettern Gates got so rich. Gordon Gecko wor- pre-dates even Altair BASIC and MS- Art Director Brad Zerbel [email protected] ships this approach, while Karl Marx DOS!). This is a fundamentally new Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao was less impressed. model of capitalism as much as it is a [email protected] In the old days, robber barons donated new model of software. For a public some of their proceeds to relieve a little company to purposely devote resources guilt, and because charity cocktail par- (Microsoft Research is $6 billion to $7 Group Publisher Henry Allain ties rule! There wasn’t a lot of oversight billion and counting) to projects that [email protected] Editorial Director Doug Barney of their money, they gave it, scarfed may never make them a dime, or return [email protected] Group Associate Publisher Matt N. Morollo champagne and a few truffles, and went dollars to them decades in the future, is [email protected] straight back to making more.
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