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Business workhorse remains 802.11 wireless Ethernet, says OpenBench Labs By: Jack Fegreus With all the buzz over Bluetooth, it's not too surprising that the industry would jazz up the 802.11b-the b was added in 1997 to indicate 11 Mbits per second throughput-moniker with the new Wi-Fi marketing logo. The magic behind the higher level of throughput is a technology similar to that used in GPS satellites and some types of cell phones.

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THE ULTIMATE JAVA POWER STATION - RAD rules with Open Source Forte.

By: Chris Amaru Numerous Java development tools are available on the Linux platform, but only a handful of these are Open Source. One of the more well-known examples of these is Forte for Java Community Edition (CE), from Sun Microsystems. The fact that Forte for Java CE is built with Java renders one of those good news/bad news situations.

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Rackup Backup

By: Chris Amaru OpenBench Labs makes short work of backing up 100 GB/hr. in a 19-inch rack.

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Clustering In The San Pit

By: Jack Fegreus From multiswitch fabrics to SAN-based clusters, sift through the issues and you'll invariably find software.

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The time of SANs

By: Jack Fegreus For SANs, the prime heuristic is simple: "It ain't necessarily so."

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Managing Linux on the network

By: Chris Amaru With its simple network-management tools, Volution opens the door to wider corporate use of Linux.

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Motive for fast GUIs

By: Keith Walls Building professional Motif GUIs on Linux is only a drag and drop away.

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Data tangoes - No solo samba

By: Jack Fegreus To an NFS beat, the penguin dances with wolves quite elegantly.

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Convolving Linux systems

By: Jack Fegreus Open Source moves from easy availability to high availability.

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'Tis the gift to be simple

By: Jack Fegreus While the potential return on investment from sales force automation is very compelling, more staggering is the far more frequent cost of failure.

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