eWeek articles from January 2001

eWeek archives from January 2001

Guarding Java's integrity.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... Sun defends its stance on intellectual property rights in the case of the J2SE standard. IPR unity We read with interest your nov. 27 editorial "Sun should submit to ECMA" (Page 54). In it you say Sun was "shortsighted in abandoning...

Outside world wants inside IT.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... If your company isn't a world-class technology user, it won't last long: Aggressive adoption and deployment of information systems, both computing and communications, are a minimum requirement for a sustained competitive role in today's...

Lessons for the year ahead.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... If your business made it out of last year alive, and if we've learned anything during the last official days of the 20th century, that lesson may be that the Internet can't solve all of our problems, that not all businesses can run on it, that...

Companies neglect e-procurement.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For many Fortune 500 companies, it's all talk and no walk when it comes to e-procurement. In fact, fewer than one-third of Fortune 500 companies order strategic goods from online suppliers, and many have no idea how well their e-procurement...

Industry e-markets ready to launch.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Anyone who thought that last year's spate of industry-sponsored e- marketplace announcements was little more than a public relations ploy should think again. Of 64 such e-marketplaces identified in a recent report by New York-based Jupiter...

Buying biz smarts - ASPs chip in to cut data-dicing costs and time.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Steve Poss used to shudder the week before the monthly board meeting. The corporate controller for Deloro Stellite Co. Inc., of St. Louis, would spend that week gathering faxes and e-mails from plant managers throughout Europe, Asia and North...

Data you can take to the bank.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Sometimes, bad data can happen to good companies. As application service providers work to bring business intelligence to a wider market, many retailers and wholesalers are learning that their databases aren't always stocked with the best...

Cutthroats now comrades - Outsider teaches being good e-market neighbors.
January 1, 2001... Sitting in a Chicago conference room in March, executives from three of the country's largest commercial real estate companies peered at one another with a little skepticism and a lot of anxiety. It was the first meeting of CB Richard Ellis...

Hacking: It's a mad, mad, mad new world.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... "Spy vs. spy" is mad magazine's classic cartoon that pits two virtually identical characters against each other in an espionage and dirty- tricks contest that never ends. Great news: Hacking is heading straight into "Spy vs. Spy" territory as...

Integrating web apps: Pain and horror.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Just when you thought it was safe-when there would be no more ERP implementation debacles in your future because, well, big ERP projects are history-along comes Web-based application integration. I mean, we're talking a major nightmare of...

Job agencies will hire HR-XML - Protocol promises a lingua franca for resumes.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Scanning; manual parsing; garbled transfer to a searchable database; bending, folding, spindling and mutilating. It might sound like the Spanish Inquisition, but it's just the routine torture that both paper and online resumes go through, all...

Meeting a mandate for patient privacy - New software aims to help providers and insurers comply with HIPAA.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... A handful of developers are rolling out software to help insurance companies and health care providers meet new privacy and security standards being imposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. iPrivacy LLC, OpenNetwork...

Storage standard shakeout - Spectra Logic plans forum to discuss competing specs for tape backup.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... The storage industry is awash in standards proposals these days, with more than a half dozen in the works. Now, a Boulder, Colo., company wants industry leaders to start thinking about a time when one or more of these standards, including...

Platform manages e-marketplace customers.(Ardesic'se MarketMinder)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Startup Ardesic Corp. last month unveiled a CRM product designed for online marketplaces. The eMarketMinder platform comprises modules that are hosted by an exchange and deliver standard customer relationship management features, including...

ON Technology targets support.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Desktop configuration management provider ON Technology Corp. has extended the concept of self-service user support to Web-based remote software delivery. The Cambridge, Mass., vendor added a new Web server option to its ON Command product line...

Metagon adds P2P model.(Metagon Technologies' DQBroker Extended Enterprise data access solution)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Data integration software provider Metagon Technologies LLC, of Charlotte, N.C., has added a peer-to-peer distributed processing model with its new DQBroker Extended Enterprise data access solution. Used in conjunction with Metagon's...

Convergence on trial.(Alcatel's Alcatel IP Telephony Starter Kit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Alcatel is offering a starter kit of new voice and data convergence services for medium-to-large businesses interested in testing IP telephony without spending a fortune or eliminating legacy systems. The kit gives resellers a low-risk...

Rave boosts redundancy.(Rave Computer Association's Rave Computer Association Redundant RackMount 4UAXmp SPARC-based system)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... AXmp line addition revs processing power Multiple options Rave Computer Association Inc., of Sterling Heights, Mich., has added a rack mount to its line of Rave AXmp systems to provide redundancy and greater processing power. Part of the...

WAN, LAN, PAN: What's the plan?
January 1, 2001... When surveying security for your company's wireless landscape, you need to think about three areas: WAN (cellular and its variants), LAN (802.11 and its variants) and PAN (Bluetooth). On Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. EST, join eWeek Labs analysts and...

Beyond the database - Oracle8i Release 3 aims for mail, file server market.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 2001... Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle Corp.'s Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server. Oracle's development teams are backing...

Layer 7 switching routes data discerningly.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... Burgeoning internet traffic coupled with rising demand for QOS multimedia content such as VOIP and real-time streaming have fueled the emergence of Layer 7 switching. Layer 7 switching is a multifaceted technology that involves not only...

Oracle: The Yahoo of the corporate world.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2001... Once again, Larry Ellison has taken a basic technology and made it seem interesting. That basic technology is the portal, and Oracle is staking a good part of its business on it. I've taken it on myself to see if Oracle can deliver, since...

IFS unifies file, e-mail storage.(Product Information)
January 1, 2001... Depending on which industry analyst or database executive eWeek Labs asks, we hear estimates that between 70 percent and 95 percent of the world's data is stored only in unstructured formats such as word processing documents, HTML files and...

Labs'-eye view // Oracle.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Oracle has figured out what the IT industry loves and hates in the computer industry. It hates debugging desktop operating systems and not having the right data at the right time. It loves some semblance of control and quick answers. IFS...

Pings&Packets - Searching The Industry For Technical Connections and Returning Analysis In Byte-size Packages.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 2001... Service builds all-Flash sites Tell me you have a service to build hosted template-based Web sites. Yawn. Say that the sites it builds are based purely on Macromedia's Flash. Hmm, I haven't seen that before. Then point out that you are...

How to cover your shopping footprints.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Shopping on the internet is like signing up for a supermarket saver card or getting that extra 10 percent discount when you sign up for a retail store's credit card. You get some immediate savings, but you are also involuntarily subscribing to...

Beefed-up Rex makes a trim PIM - Xircom handheld improved by touch- screen but limited by PCMCIA card.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 2001... With a touch-sensitive display, new Web clipping capabilities and four times the RAM of the device it replaces, Xircom Inc.'s Rex 6000 Micro PDA represents a significant advance for the Rex product line and is a viable competitor in the low-end...

Is wireless just the ticket? Airlines wonder if fliers want cell-phone ticketing.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Nobody is more mobile than a frequent flier, so airlines are trying to keep up with the wireless trend. But while several are offering simple things such as access to flight data, the companies are hedging on real mobile commerce applications...

New deals open portals to content - Northern Light to offer Oracle content management features; Hummingbird's EIP expands plug-ins.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Portal vendors are working overtime to make deals with content and infrastructure suppliers to help shore up their offerings.Northern Light Technology Inc. and Oracle Corp. will announce early this year an alliance in which Oracle will...

App servers to comply with J2EE.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... The application server market continues to bustle, with new releases on the horizon from BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp. and IBM. BEA, of San Jose, Calif., late last month started shipping WebLogic Server 6.0, which company...

The future is not what it used to be.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... As the dawn of the new year approached, el gato took a moment to contrast the reality of the year 2001 with Stanley Kubrick's epic vision. From the time he was a kitten, Spencer thought the world would be a futuristic utopia when the new...

The upside of the downside.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... A couple of questions and maybe a few answers coming into the new year. n Managed and hosted services were all the rage a year ago, but too few customers and too high a cash burn rate have shut down many hosting providers. Who will benefit?...

Cost control: Microsoft learns from GE.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... At this time last year, the it outlook was ebullient if not giddy. Demand for IT skills was off the charts, with the backlog of unfilled jobs approaching 1 million, according to government estimates. Now that 2001 has arrived, the forecast is...

NA to lose execs, money.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Network associates saw its stock take a 68 percent nose dive the week of Dec. 25, after it forecast fourth-quarter losses of $130 million to $140 million, laying most of the blame on a backlog in sales inventories fueled by shrinking IT budgets...

Napster offers 2.0 update.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Napster, a company whose music-swapping service rattled the music industry and put the issue of copyright and the Internet on center stage, isn't letting a little thing like a possibly fatal federal court decision slow it down. The company last...

EarthWeb sells sites.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In 1998, earthweb became one of the first Internet-based businesses to make a killing on Wall Street with its IPO. Last week, the company, which created community Web sites, sold 14 of those sites-including EarthWeb. com-and 18 e-mail news...

Web boutiques collapsing - Profits and growth for Internet integrators down.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... A triple whammy of bad news for the Web-integration services business will likely spell doom for many boutique Web-integration companies. The latest victims of the downturn-Organic Inc. and Cysive Inc.- reported revenue shortfalls and...

China gets WTO head start - Country turns to Western vendors to satisfy growing need for wireless and broadband services.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... China is turning to western telecommunications vendors-and vice versa- as the Asian nation's blossoming economy fuels the need for more and better wireless and broadband Internet services. As the communist country continues to campaign for...

Privacy standards grant patients' rights.(Government Activity)
January 1, 2001... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services late last month released new rules to protect the privacy of individuals' medical records and other private health information managed by health care providers, insurers and clearinghouses. ...

Spectrum: New year, new bidding - With bidding for PCS licenses topping $11 billion, many question whether rates will soar as well.(Government Activity)
January 1, 2001... Carriers seeking spectrum have rung up more than $11 billion in bids in the most expensive government auction of airwaves to date-and it's not over yet. Of the original 87 bidders, 58 will continue the aggressive quest for spectrum...

Pair unveil Net-based banking service.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Financial accounts aggregator Yodlee Inc. and National InterBank, which provides private- label banking software and services for online businesses, are trying to muscle in on one of banking institutions' core functions: moving assets. The...

Microsoft to end volume licensing.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... The disappointing pace of adoption of the Windows 2000 platform has caused Microsoft Corp. to halt its volume licensing program on older versions of Windows in a bid to drive business to the 2000 software suite. So far, however, the process is...

Pricing shakeout looming for PCs - Corporate IT unfazed by upcoming reductions.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Amajor PC pricing shake-out is in the making as OEMs, reeling from the first slump in fourth-quarter sales in five years, move to clear out warehouses full of unsold computers and revive sales. But while price cuts and rebates-some up to...

The check is in the e-mail - New alliances and software give online bill payment a second wind.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Electronic billing is back-and this time, it means business. Although it's taken a lot longer than some financial industry experts expected, many companies and banking institutions are finally rolling out electronic bill presentment and...

Microsoft, Oracle vis-e-vis - As Unix threatens the Windows platform, Ballmer reaches out to Ellison.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Microsoft Corp. is becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat the Unix platform is posing to the company's Windows platform, and it's starting to show. In early December, company President and CEO Steve Ballmer initiated his...

Micron ASP push: Last chance?(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... PC maker Micron Electronics Inc. will transform its HostPro Inc. subsidiary into a full-fledged ASP later this year, a move that experts say may be a last-ditch effort to save the company. The move will make Micron the first mainstream...

Standards are necessity, not option.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... As big companies and financial institutions rush to set up online billing systems, some are finding that their EBPP platforms could be hobbled by the same lack of industrywide standards that has slowed intercompany integration of other...

Analyst lowers IBM expectations.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... IBM saw its stock take a dip last week after Prudential Securities lowered revenue estimates for the computer company. Analyst Kimberly Alexy cited concerns about the sluggish PC market in cutting IBM's fourth-quarter revenue estimates from...

FCC extends merger review.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Last month, the players in the proposed $78 billion merger between America Online and Time Warner got the OK from the Federal Trade Commission after nearly a year of consideration. Now they'll have to wait into early this year for a...

E-tailers hit goals - Success linked to better service, delivery methods.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... While traditional retailers begin discounting products to clear inventories in the wake of sluggish holiday sales, online retailers, surprisingly, appear to be meeting their sales expectations. PC Data Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., in...

Microsoft boosts .Net with Great Plains deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Microsoft Corp. made a serious move into the small-to-midsize business applications space and bolstered its .Net strategy at the same time with its purchase late last month of Great Plains Software Inc. Once the $1.1 billion acquisition is...

Playing more than the host - B2B exchanges such as Ventro, e-Steel want to be technology providers.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... As business-to-business marketplaces struggle to devise a profitable and sustainable business model, some B2B companies are opting to become more than transaction hosters. A small but influential group of companies, such as Ventro Corp....

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... A story in the Dec. 18/25 issue incorrectly stated that Microsoft Corp. executive Jim Allchin has left the company. Another Dec. 18/25 story incorrectly stated the price of CCBN's IR hosting service. Robert Mondavi Vineyard pays $1,200 per...

Getting down to the truth.(Technology Information)(Column)
January 1, 2001... As we enter 2001, an obvious gap between past fantasy and present reality is our lack of computers that care about telling the truth. n The HAL 9000 computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" became psychotic when it was ordered to conceal facts from...

Agilera, Applicast to hook up.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Two major application service providers specializing in vertical markets will become one later this month when Agilera Inc. acquires Appli cast Inc., Agi lera officials confirmed last week. Agilera CEO Paul Rudolph said the company will...

IBM ships eServer z900.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Ibm has begun shipping the eServer z900, which it calls the "reinvented mainframe" and the successor to its popular S/390 line. To highlight its aggressive efforts to boost sales of its Unix servers to e-commerce companies, the Armonk,...

The hidden price of one-stop shopping.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Oracle Corp.'s Oracle8i Release 3, reviewed at right by West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck, is growing to the point where it does everything but take the dog for a walk. Should IT buy into this consolidation strategy? The...

M-commerce security a moving - Multiple platforms and incomplete standards pose challenges to building wireless safeguards.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... It's been a struggle, but after scrambling for months to head off what seems like every virus and denial-of-service threat under the sun, you've finally managed to get a grip on your enterprise's network security. Intrusion detection is in...

The push is on for wireless security.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... Although wireless protocols such as wap may not be as secure as most IT managers would like, vendors are rapidly closing holes. But how do you know when a wireless platform is finally safe for mission-critical applications? One way is to...

The LAN, PAN, WAN plan - Wireless technologies can plug in mobile workers securely as long as managers act with caution.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... As wireless networking continues to expand across the enterprise, it is important that IT departments evaluate the effects of these technologies on system security and arrive at ways to integrate them into established security frameworks. ...

Beware of chinks in wireless links.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... Any decision to use a wireless link is a decision to radiate information-bearing energy in a form that can be detected at a distance. Regardless of any promise to ensure security, privacy or reliability, all wireless links take the risks that...

Wireless tool uncovers network flaws - New Sniffer Wireless protocol analyzer pinpoints companies' performance and security problems.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 15, 2001... Network Associates Inc.'s Sniffer Wireless, the first wireless protocol analyzer on the market, does a good job of showing network managers airborne network problems and security flaws. Although wireless hardware products often include...

Labs'-eye view // Sniffer Wireless.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... Network Associates Inc. may be one of the first companies to market with a wireless protocol analyzer, but it won't be the last. The need for security is especially great in wireless networks, where packets of company data are not just being...

Taking stock of security.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Security breaches will always be part of doing business online, say readers. Extreme measures Except for the very computer-illiterate, hacking is as common a term as stealing, and the terms have a lot in common (Just Managing,...

In Memoriam.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... On Dec. 22, 2000, eWEEK said goodbye to longtime employee Paul V. Olowacz, 42, who served on the copy desk for PC Week/eWeek since 1993 and before that at other Ziff Davis publications. Paul, who died at his home in Arlington, Mass., had a...

Upgrade timeout.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... PC makers return this week from the warm glow of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to face a grim winter, kicked off by a year-to-year decline of 24 percent in PC sales during the critical month of December.Not only retail PC sales but...

So who says you're 'right'?(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 15, 2001... The other day, I pulled up at the drive-through window of my bank to see them flipping the sign to "Closed." I checked my watch. It was still 2 minutes before the posted close of business. And when I say it's 4:58, I mean plus or minus 10...

Beyond the PC slowdown.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... We've read a lot of news and commentary lately about the infamous PC slowdown, including the latest from eWeek's own editorial board (see Page 60). Such a slowdown is indeed here, and it's been a long time coming. There are too many megahertz...

E-calls common within 5 years.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... By 2006, nearly one-quarter of all Internet users will regularly make VOIP phone calls from their PCs, according to a report released this month by IT and tele communications industry research company Ovum Ltd., in Boston. Some 166 million...

Lack of quality can silence Web talk.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Before voice over ip takes off, providers will have to fix some current problems. International Data Corp., of Framingham, Mass., recently surveyed call services provided by Deltathree.com Inc., Net2Phone Inc. and PhoneFree. com Inc. IDC found...

E-procurement of temp labor - Hosted systems can cut the cost of finding and hiring contingent staff.(Company Operations)
January 15, 2001... Avis Group Holdings Inc. likes to market itself as the car rental giant that tries harder, and apparently it's true. The Garden City, N.Y., company, in fact, tries so hard that its staff of 23,000 full-time employees can't always generate all...

Keeping lives in harmony - Employers help staffs balance family life, work.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... Albert Fretz has been known to work 70-hour weeks to finish difficult projects. Fretz's bosses at Talk2 Technology Inc., a Salt Lake City- based tele communications company, love and encourage such dedication. His family-a wife and four...

New devices to come with CE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... At the recent consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corp. demonstrated computing devices based on embedded Windows CE, including new products from Hitachi Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Siemens AG, Abocom, Dig Media Inc. and...

Putting Web apps to the test.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... New offerings for web content management are available from Mercury Interactive Corp. and F5 Networks Inc. Mercury's products, part of the company's Astra line, are QuickTest 5.0, LoadTest 5.0 and FastTrack. Officials of the Sunnyvale,...

Service gauges response rates.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Internet infrastructure and hosting company Loudcloud Inc. has announced a new performance testing service based on technology from Keynote Systems Inc. The service, called Global Response Smart Cloud, lets customers of Loudcloud, which is...

System provides song information.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Pixstream Inc., of Waterloo, Ontario, a developer of video head-end solutions for service providers, is teaming with DMX Music Inc. to provide artist insertion software for video networking systems. Customers will be able to receive the name of...

Marimba adds Linux, AIX.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... Timbale 1.2 has advanced caching features Caching in Infrastructure management company Marimba Inc. has announced the debut of Timbale 1.2, which adds advanced caching functions and support for Linux and AIX platforms. Automatic...

Switches take on variety of functions.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The common theme for this week's Infrastructure stories boils down to one word: switching. Anritsu's MultiFlow 5128, a high-speed multilayer switch reviewed by Technical Analyst Manish Parks, at right, ably extends enterprise networks to...

Breaking new KVM ground.(Avocent's Avocent DS1800 KVM switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... In his review bottom right, Technical Analyst Francis Chu says Avocent's DS1800 KVM switch breaks new ground by running on standard Ethernet, extending the control of servers through the IP network. The DS1800 converts analog KVM signals into...

Express networking - Anritsu's latest switch extends LANs on a budget.(Anritsu Anritsu MultiFlow 5128)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 15, 2001... Anritsu Co.'s multiflow 5128 is a practical, high-speed multilayer switch that enables IT managers at small-to-midsize organizations to extend enterprise networks to entire campuses and MANs. eWeek Labs' tests showed that the MultiFlow...

KVM switch is likely to suit server farms.(Avocent's Avocent DS1800 KVM switch)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 15, 2001... Avocent Corp. breaks new ground with its recent introduction of the DS1800, a KVM switch that runs over a standard Ethernet network. But although the DS1800 has the impressive capability to extend the control of servers through the IP network,...

Remedies for Silicon Valley's malaise.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... It's gotten so gloomy around silicon valley that even I, usually full of mirth, am starting to get depressed. Even the road ragers look melancholy as they cut off unsuspecting tourists.Boohoo. This case of manic despair has been incubating for...

Let your cell phone do the e-shopping.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... Although it remains to be seen whether pricewater- houseCoopers' prediction that e-commerce sales would reach $10.2 billion in 2000-up nearly 100 percent from $5.2 billion in 1999-has come to pass, another holiday online shopping season has...

Pings&Packets - Searching The Industry For Technical Connections and Returning Analysis In Byte-size Packages.(News Briefs)
January 15, 2001... Wired for sound, video Making Apple'S IMAC look obese, the $2,500 Panasonic CF-E1 Audio Video Personal Computer that we saw last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starts with a 15-inch flat-screen display instead of a...