Test Center Tracker: Microsoft’s Groove is a bit off

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Aug 20, 20071 min

Not feelin' so Groove-y: Senior Contributors Oliver Rist and Brian Chee are tackling Microsoft server after server, and the most recent project on their plate: Groove Server. "For companies with more than 100 seats that really want to exploit Groove client, Office Groove Server is a must-have," conclude Rist and Chee. "The security and data retention capabilities alone make it worth the cost and effort -- probab

Not feelin’ so Groove-y: Senior Contributors Oliver Rist and Brian Chee are tackling Microsoft server after server, and the most recent project on their plate: Groove Server. “For companies with more than 100 seats that really want to exploit Groove client, Office Groove Server is a must-have,” conclude Rist and Chee. “The security and data retention capabilities alone make it worth the cost and effort — probably.” However, getting it up and running is quite the challenge, plus pricing is vague. But when it’s all said and done, it’s worth the effort.

I’ve seen the future, and it’s …: Subscription-based virtualized apps? Dynamic, virtual server farms? Multi-threaded chip cores? InfoWorld’s bloggers and analysts have whipped out their crystal balls to predict the Next Big Things under 15 different technology umbrellas, from databases to middleware to security to open source.

Honeyd gets sweetened: Security guru Roger A. Grimes reports that Jesper Jurcenoks, co-founder of netVigilance, has released an updated version of Honeyd for Windows. Honeyd, Grimes says, “is one of the best virtual honeypot software programs in existence.”