From the InfoWorld Test Center: Stratus has introduced the ftServer 4400 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server and, in so doing, created “a completely redundant server,” Paul Venezia writes. “Yes, I do mean completely redundant.” Stratus, with the ftServer line, effectively bundles two discrete servers into a single entity — but Venezia maintains that doesn’t mean the ftServer is a cluster. It’s not perfect, though. The CPUs are slower than Venezia would like, it would be nice to have the option of an Intel quad-core chip, and the price is higher than a clustered solution. The upside? “I couldn’t break the ftServer 4400. It just runs. If the goal is a completely fault-tolerant single-server solution, look no further.” Read the full review. The news beat: Salesforce.com unveils Salesforce to Salesforce, which it claims enables any company using its platform to integrate and share data. Red Hat announces MRG software for messaging, real-time and grid, and aims it at IBM and Tibco. Verizon hedges on using Google’s Android platform for mobile development. And Microsoft says that a Windows flaw could steer IE to hackers and could potentially expose some customers to online attacks. Careers: In response to a previous Advice Line entry, one reader writes in commenting that he mostly agrees with Bob Lewis, but that “good leaders need to give some folks a dope slap every now and then to wake them up.” The heart of this issue is blame, how best praise those who identify and fix mistakes, and how to handle those who made them in the first place. “The trick, I think, is to separate the process of handling incidents from the process of managing employee performance,” Lewis asserts in Ignore mistakes? “Holding someone accountable for an honest mistake is rarely … probably never … a good idea.” Technology Industry