Making Exchange easier via mid-sourcing

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May 15, 20062 mins

Test Center review: Azaleos and Teneros are easier to set up than Microsoft’s own Exchange clustering features, and generally less expensive. Both are complete Exchange HA solutions that are installed on the customer’s premises but managed and monitored off-site. They’re not created equal, though. Read the full review here.

Best of the blogs: Fulfilling his lonely fate, Jon Udell shares a heretical approach to search engine optimization. Greg Nawrocki, meanwhile, examines the grid standards wiki that GGF launched. “While I do believe this is a noble effort, at a high level it seems to me that this is a whole lot of cooks to fit into one kitchen.”

The news beat: Infor nabs SSA Global for $1.4 billion, a move that could shift the enterprise applications landscape. Motorola and Eclipse, at the JavaOne show this week, will unwrap open source initiatives to boost mobile Java. And AOL is testing the Active Security Measure tool that scans PCs for security holes and can alert users to viruses and spyware vulnerabilities.

Quoteworthy: The celebrity tabloids cover Angelina Jolie’s love life as much as the IT trade press tracks the progress of ODF. The question is why? How did something so completely mundane and balefully uninteresting as an office document file format get to be the subject of so much press? The answer, of course, is Microsoft. — Neil McAllister. No love lost between Microsoft and OpenDocument.