Best of the blogs: A sibling rivalry of sorts, perhaps, but at PASS Sean McCown came to realize that even though "developers are the bee's knees," Microsoft "really doesn't hold DBAs in much regard," he explains in this Database Underground post. In some ways, McCown notes, they are even rendered out of the equation.

Columnist's corner: Tom Yager kicks off this week's installment of Ahead of the Curve by pointing out that, through its pact with Novell, Microsoft has effectively made the use of Suse Linux the only safe means to achieve heterogeneity. "By immunizing Novell against future intellectual property actions, Microsoft tacitly notified other players in commercialized open source that Microsoft sets the rules for Windows interoperability from now on," he adds. It gets scarier than that, too. "There's no end to what Microvell can do within the law. If you let them." Microvell's big chill.

The news beat: Intel says it will put 802.11n into Centrino prior to the standard being ratified. Novell expands Zenworks to manage virtualization. And Apple patches a wireless bug in AirPort that could be used by attackers to run software on a victim's PC.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 29, 2006 04:44 AM