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Editor's Choice: Active Directory Management and Migration

<b>Winner:</b> Full Armor Software FAZAM 2000 3<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#aelita">Aelita Controlled Migration Suite</a>

Editor's Choice: Exchange Anti-Virus

<b>Winner: </b>GFI Ltd. MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#mcafee">Network Associates McAfee GroupShield</a>

What’s in a name?

If Redmond maintains the trend, rest assured you'll know what to call "Longhorn."

Editor's Choice: Scripting

<b>Winner: </b>Sapien Technologies Primalscript<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#vbsedit">Adersoft VbsEdit</a>

The Season of Giving (and Taking)

This useful script will make your life easier, but may make you a grinch to your users.

Editor's Choice: Backup

<b>Winner: </b>CommVault Systems Galaxy<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention: </b><a href="#ultrabac">Ultrabac Software UltraBac 7</a>

Editor's Choice: IIS Monitoring

<b>Winner: </b>Parker Software Ltd. Who's On<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#netiq">NetIQ WebTrends</a>

A Practical Approach

Getting the job done often means accomplishing what you can within the constraints of real-world resources and budgets.

Reflect and Rejuvenate

As 2002 comes to a close, our columnists offer advice on how to succeed, personally as well as professionally, in the coming year.

Editor's Choice: NT 4.0 to Windows Migration

<b>Winner: </b>Tranxition Software Personality Tranxport Professional 3.0<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#xpress">Altiris eXpress Migration Suite</a>

Editor's Choice: Windows 2000 Administration

<b>Winner:</b> Microsoft Press Windows 2000 Resource Kit<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#erdisk">Aelita Software Aelita ERDisk</a>

Editor's Choice: Security

<b>Winner: </b>@stake LC4<br> <br> <b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#msdn">Microsoft Corp. MSDN Universal Subscription</a>

HP to Ship 2nd-Generation Profusion Systems in Early 2003

In early 2003, HP plans to roll out eight-processor servers based on a second-generation Profusion chipset that supports the newer Intel Xeon MP processors.

IBM Releases WebSphere 5.0

IBM Corp. this week officially released version 5.0 of WebSphere Application Server (WAS). With full support for existing Web services standards, compliance with J2EE 1.3, a new workflow engine, and a bevy of Web-to-host connectivity options, Big Blue says that WAS 5.0 marks a major upgrade of its Web application server platform.

IDC: Linux Servers Grow Faster Than Windows in Q3

Linux servers gained market share much faster than Windows servers did in the third quarter, according to research released Wednesday by market analysts at IDC. The analysts note that the Linux growth comes from a much smaller base than Windows enjoys. The Standard Intel Architecture Servers that underpin both OS platforms, meanwhile, continue to make up a growing share of the overall market as Unix servers decline in market share. In other developments, IBM assumed the lead among eight-processor server Intel architecture sellers.

Microsoft Updates Collaboration Solution

Microsoft unveiled a minor upgrade this week to its Microsoft Solution for Intranets (MSI) package that offers consulting on setting up enterprise intranets based on Microsoft technologies. The new 1.5 version of MSI also integrates an upcoming technology offering from Groove Networks that provides users with a way to work on MSI-based collaboration projects while offline or outside the firewall.

Dell Gets Into Blade Game

Dell this week delivered on an earlier promise to begin shipping blade servers. It is immediately offering a 3U enclosure that packs as many as 12 processors.

IDC: 2002 Worst Year in History of IT

The IT industry is having its worst year ever in 2002, market researchers at IDC concluded. Some of the hardest hit sectors were storage, systems, network equipment and services.

Aberdeen Report Points Out Open Source Vulnerabilities

Analysts at Aberdeen Group say the evidence of the last 10 months shows that the popular wisdom about Microsoft security -- that it's the worst -- may be outdated.

IBM DB2 Version 8 Available

Version 8 of IBM DB2 became generally available on Thursday. The version sports a new pricing structure and enhanced management features that make the database more attractive for smaller companies that have traditionally leaned toward SQL Server.