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          <strong>Technical Analysis: Linux VPN and How-To</strong>
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        <p>Enjoy this analysis from Port 25 by the Open Source Software Lab (OSSL) on VPN (Virtual Private Network) within the Linux Operating System. Specifically, it provides a breakdown of VPN components and a description of what is available to Linux Administrators in terms of manageability and functionality.</p>
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          <strong>Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support</strong>
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        <p>On November 2, 2006, Novell Inc. President and CEO Ronald W. Hovsepian and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements that will help their customers realize unprecedented choice and flexibility through improved interoperability and manageability between Windows and Linux. </p>
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          <strong>Reference Architecture for Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Migrations</strong>
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        <p>Important reading for those considering a migration from Lotus Domino technologies to Microsoft technologies </p>
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          <strong>Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide v1.0</strong>
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        <p>This prescriptive guide shows IT Pros how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory for both authentication and identity storage within heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and UNIX environments. </p>
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          <strong>Service Modeling Language Specification Workshop</strong>
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        <p>January 16-17, 2007: Give feedback on a working draft of the Service Modeling Language (SML), which is used to model complex IT services and systems. SML is based on a profile of XML Schema and Schematron. </p>
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          <strong>Operating Systems</strong>
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    <p style="padding-left: 20px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Which operating system (OS) do you want Microsoft Windows to work with? Or, which OS do you want to migrate from?</p>
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      <p style="padding-left: 20px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Select the Microsoft product or technology you want to interoperate your environment with or migrate to.</p>
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        <a runat="server" href="https://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/06/14/2625.aspx">How to: Connecting SQL Server 2005 JDBC to JBOSS</a>
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