Microvell to exhume ADU?: Many a pundit has weighed in on the potential impact of the Microsoft-Novell pairing. Tossing in another two-plus cents is Tom Yager, who foresees the Microvell pact resulting in the return of Advanced Server for Unix (ASU), once a rival to Samba that fell out of favor in the IT world. "A proprietary ASU-like Windows interoperability product bearing Novell’s logo would become a standard Microvell to exhume ADU?: Many a pundit has weighed in on the potential impact of the Microsoft-Novell pairing. Tossing in another two-plus cents is Tom Yager, who foresees the Microvell pact resulting in the return of Advanced Server for Unix (ASU), once a rival to Samba that fell out of favor in the IT world. “A proprietary ASU-like Windows interoperability product bearing Novell’s logo would become a standard purchase with practically every commercial Linux sale,” Yager proclaims. But the implications are chilling.Breaking down collaboration barriers: Jon Udell reveals how we at InfoWorld track our vacation days: HR sends us a calendar made in an Excel sheet. We download it, open it up, put Vs in the appropriate cells to denote vacation days, reattach it, and e-mail it back. There has to be a more elegant way to collaborate, Udell argues. The problem, he says, is that we lack a universal canvas, “an environment in which data and applications flow freely on the Web.” Microsft and Google are both halfway there, at least — but there’s work still work to be done.Know thy user’s browser: Sometimes, your company’s Web site is only as good as the browser it’s viewed in. Some homegrown sniffers are capable of determining that, but InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck has found a useful commercial tool that achieves the task and then some: cyScape BrowserHawk 10. The solution “lets Web professionals accurately detect visitors’ browser and system settings to make sure they have the best online experience.” Technology Industry