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Welcome to inFusion! This weekly news update includes late breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive This week's highlights ******************** 1) IBM: 5 new ways to leverage your data assets 2) Online forum: Java in the enterprise 3) Switch users in for QoS cost surprise and other top news 4) Keeping Current: What a tera-ble idea! 5) Review and buyer's guide: Remote access servers 6) Help: Wireless Internet 7) Help: Best Ethernet? 8) Site Watch: Frame Relay Forum vs. ATM Forum 9) Network World Technical Seminars 10) Site & Subscription Info >From our sponsor: 1) IBM: 5 new ways to leverage your data assets and a free "Business Intelligence" CD-ROM. ****************************************************************** Give us 60 seconds and we'll show you new ways to analyze, leverage, safeguard and extend your data assets on the Web. SurfAid uses data mining technology to analyze website traffic. VisualWarehouse 3.1 brings OLAP to the desktop. Intelligent Miner extends data mining to more platforms. ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager safeguards data assets. An invitation to 4 days of e-business "how to" in Orlando. Free: 25 case-history videos detail Business Intelligence solutions. nwfusion.com 2) Online forum: Java in the enterprise ************************************* Enough with dancing coffee cups. Is Java really suitable for heavy-duty enterprise applications? Madhu Siddalingaiah, vice president of the Java Lobby, says yes, pointing to some of the more sophisticated components of the Java Development Kit and the Java Foundation Classes. Mike Sax, president of Sax Software Corp., a Windows component developer, says no, pointing to its incompatibility with existing apps and its overall sluggishness. What do you think? Come online to read more of Siddalingaiah's and Sax's arguments, then jump into our latest Fusion Face-off debate. DocFinder: 6328 nwfusion.com 3) Switch users in for QoS cost surprise and other top news ******************************************************* As vendors tout their policy-based network capabilties, they're chomping at the bit to tell users about how they can guarantee quality of service. But they're not anxious to tell users about another guarantee: The new features will require significant hardware upgrades that could cost tens of thousands of dollars. DocFinder: 6335 nwfusion.com WorldCom/MCI deal to go through ringer Any ideas of a merger cakewalk for WorldCom, Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. are over. Now that the U.S. Department of Justice has requested detailed Internet traffic data from the merger partners and their big Internet competitors, approval of the deal is likely to be a long struggle. But behind the scenes it is clear that the fight over the MCI/WorldCom deal isn't really about whether the merged company would have a stranglehold on Internet backbone traffic. DocFinder: 6336 nwfusion.com Certificates merit a look Banks, universities, government agencies and even churches have begun handing out public-key certificates to employees, enabling individuals to digitally sign and encrypt e-mail and files. And while early adopters are raving about improvements in internal and external communications security, they are also running into interoperability problems and seeing regulatory hassles on the horizon. DocFinder: 6338 nwfusion.com Sun to air Java device manager Sun Microsystems, Inc. this week rolls out software for managing and updating software across an enterprise Java network. DocFinder: 6337 nwfusion.com CEO Schmidt survives his first year at Novell DocFinder: 6330 nwfusion.com GTE and AT&T WorldNet add IP faxing services DocFinder: 6332 nwfusion.com IBM's TSpaces could be going places Have you ever wished your electric toothbrush could talk to your mainframe? DocFinder: 6333 nwfusion.com 4) Keeping Current: What a tera-ble idea! *************************************** Just when we're getting used to gigabit Ethernet, along come vendors beginning to talk up terabit Ethernet. Fred McClimans tells them to knock it off - and why you should, too. DocFinder: 6341 nwfusion.com 5) Review and buyer's guide: Remote access servers ************************************************ We take an in-depth look at these servers. Our review of five of them shows Bay's Versalar server at the top of the heap, while our discussion of issues and trends will tell you what to look for while considering servers. And our interactive buyer's guide lets you narrow down the field to find the remote access server that best meets your needs. DocFinder: 6721 nwfusion.com 6) Help: Wireless Internet ********************** A reader wonders if anybody has had experience accessing the Internet over a wireless broadband technology known as multichannel multipoint distribution system. If you do, chime in. DocFinder: 6339 nwfusion.com 7) Help: Best Ethernet? ******************* A reader building a new LAN needs some on which is better: 10Base-2 or 10Base-T. Any suggestions? DocFinder: 6340 nwfusion.com 8) Site Watch: Frame Relay Forum vs. ATM Forum ****************************************** We take a look at the Web sites run by these two industry consortia. One's a really good site, the other one should be slapped around for terminal awfulness. DocFinder: 6342 nwfusion.com 9) Integrating Intranets & Data-Centers: SNA-Capable Intranets ************************************************************* Learn how to navigate the intricate issues surrounding the integration of data centers with intranets and the Internet! Taught by SNA-Internet integration expert, Anura Guruge, this Network World Technical Seminar, Integrating Intranets and Data Centers, will provide you with the information you need to integrate solutions in your organization. Tour dates: April 13 - June 3. nwfusion.com 10) Site & Subscription Info ************************* LINKING TO THE SITE FROM inFUSION: To directly access the information referenced here, either click on the link or use the DocFinder system on the home page: nwfusion.com MEMBER NAME/PASSWORD: If you wish to receive your password via email, please point your browser to: nwfusion.com