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As server virtualization projects gain scale and strategic value, enterprise IT managers must move quickly beyond tactical approaches to achieve best results.

Major software updates are always disruptive, and with as many as six separate SKUs for the U.S. market alone, Windows Vista will be no different. As if the launch plans for Vista weren't confusing enough, Microsoft execs have played up the steep hardware requirements of the operating system's bells and whistles, prompting many IT managers to wonder whether the upgrade might signal a jumping-off point for shops that have grown tired of life under Redmond's collective thumb.

The flurry of security issues involving Apple's Mac OS X over the past week once again hammers home the fact that no technology platform is invulnerable to attacks, whatever the perception might otherwise be, security analysts said.

In its latest Internet Security Threat Report, released Monday, security vendor Symantec noted that in the first six months of 2005, the open-source Firefox Web browser had more confirmed vulnerabilities than Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. So does that mean that the Mozilla-based browser is less secure than proponents have said and that Internet Explorer is more secure than believed?

Officials at Sunbelt Software, a US-based vendor of antispyware tools, said the company stumbled upon a massive ID theft ring that is using a well-known spyware program to break into and systematically steal confidential information from an unknown number of computers worldwide.

A report on Trojan e-mail attacks against critical infrastructure systems in the U.K. highlights an emerging trend away from mass-mailing worms and viruses to far more targeted ones, analysts said.

A fake e-mail that purports to be from the FBI is circulating on the Internet with a computer virus as its payload.

Symantec's planned acquisition of Veritas Software gives the IT security vendor an opportunity to significantly expand its presence in the market for enterprise software, users and analysts said last week.

Antivirus software company Symantec signed an agreement to buy Platform Logic, a maker of intrusion detection software (IDS) for an undisclosed sum, according to information obtained by IDG News Service.

Computer Associates (CA) will acquire identity management software vendor Netegrity in an all-cash transaction valued at $US430 million.

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