Client Server News articles from October 2002

Client Server News archives from October 2002

HP & EMC Play Bumper Cars in Tit-for-Tat Lawsuits.
October 7, 2002... Hewlett-Packard filed a patent infringement suit against EMC, its old storage supplier, Monday afternoon and EMC had retaliated in kind by the time business closed on the East Coast. EMC said it had no idea when it rolled out of bed Monday...

Hang the Black Crepe, EMC Pre-announces, People To Go.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Just to prove that we really have entered the witching season, EMC pre-announced Thursday after the market closed, saying that it won't return to profitability this half and is going to lop off another 7% of its staff, roughly 1,350 jobs,...

Antitrust Chief Quits.(Charles James)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Charles James, the head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the guy who cut the government's highly controversial settlement agreement with Microsoft, has quit ahead of getting any clear resolution on whether the courts will accept...

Walter Mitty Lives.(Veritas CFO Kenneth Lonchar)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Veritas CFO Kenneth Lonchar, one of the company's executive VPs, was forced to resign Thursday morning because he was found to have embellished his resume and claimed educational credentials - like an MBA from Stanford University - that he...

N1. . . Dej`a Vu All Over Again.(Sun Microsystems' N1 roadmap resembles IBM's Autonomic Computing plan)
October 7, 2002... ` While in listening the other week to Sun's latest insight into its prospective all-embracing N1 systems management scheme, analyst Amy Wohl was struck by its similarities (surprise, surprise) to IBM's more advanced Autonomic Computing plan....

MS Buys Liquid Audio IP.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Microsoft is paying $7 million in cash to buy the patents covering digital rights management (DRM), secure content transfer to portable devices and how to honor territorial restrictions on digital music held by Liquid Audio, a once-promising...

4,500 Sun Workers Could Be in Jeopardy.(Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Sun, whose pricey Unix servers are bedeviled by cheaper Intel gear, told the SEC that it would probably take a charge of as much as $2.2 billion against its goodwill balance this quarter if its market cap didn't rebound to the $29 billion level...

AMD Says Q3 Sucked.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... AMD said the pretty notions it had about how the third quarter would go were chewed up and spit out by reality and that it's gonna turn up on the short side in revenues and post a "substantial" operating loss when its financial results come out...

Dell Raises its Forecast.
October 7, 2002... Contrary to just about everybody else's experience and for the third time in three quarters, Dell Tuesday lifted its guidance, saying it should do a record $9.1 billion in fiscal Q3 and realize 21 cents a share by the time the quarter ends on...

Barrett-Taylor Negotiations Fail.(Intel CEO Craig Barrett, Intergraph CEO James Taylor )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Intel CEO Craig Barrett and Intergraph CEO James Taylor failed to come to terms during their court-ordered settlement summit last week in Texas, leaving the decision up to the judge. Intergraph claims Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip trespasses on...

Case Redux.(AOL Time Warner Chairman Steve Case)
October 7, 2002... Trying to put a smiley face on all that talk about his getting ousted from AOL Time Warner, its chairman Steve Case told a packed room of investors at Goldman Sachs' annual Communicopia conference in New York that he planned to roll up his...

Ah, To Be a Microsoft Lawyer.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... The Wall Street Journal has added them up and says that since 1998 Microsoft has been charged with patent infringement in at least 35 suits compared to seven suits in the previous 22 years. Twenty-one are currently active, it said, pointing...

Wyse Goes to Via.(Wyse Technology, Via Technologies)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Wyse Technology and Via Technologies, two Taiwanese outfits, say they've come to a long-term strategic agreement to develop thin clients around Via's so-called Eden platform that Via fancies for Internet appliances. Eden is a fanless platform...

Egenera Opens Japan.(Yasunobu Ohta hired)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Moving quicker than it originally thought - well, IBM will be baring down on it soon claws extended - enterprise blade maker Egenera has hired another Stratus graduate - a lot of its people are ex-Stratus - to open up the Asian market for it....

Oracle Turns Collaborator.(Oracle's Collaboration Suite for e-mail)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Oracle is going to try to take a slice of the so-called collaboration market away from Lotus and Microsoft Exchange, which have the place pretty much to themselves. Oracle has pieced together a Collaboration Suite for e-mail, calendaring and...

x86 Solaris Returns.(Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Well, it seems Sun is going to resurrect x86 Solaris free from the confines of the new low-end LX50 Intel edge server that's currently the only way you can get the thing, but not free of charge. Back towards the beginning of the year,...

Software Recovery Seen in 2003.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
October 7, 2002... IDC thinks it sees a little light at the end of the tunnel for packaged software worldwide. In a new study, the market researcher said the packaged software market will see a slow to moderate growth recovery in 2003 despite economic...

Name Change.(KPMG Consulting changes name to BearingPoint )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... If you're looking for KPMG Consulting, it doesn't exist anymore. It's changed its name to BearingPoint Inc and moved to the Big Board under the ticker symbol BE. It's part of a rebranding campaign that could run the outfit $40 million. Deloitte...

Losses Dog Coral.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Coral lost $8.6 million, or nine cents a share, plus another $50.5 million in goodwill that it wrote off from its Micrografx and SoftQuad acquisitions, on sales of $31.3 million in Q3, not as well as it hoped to do. It's also lost its CFO John...

Sleepycat Gussies Up.(Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB 4.1)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Six-year-old Sleepycat Software has a new and improved version of its embedded Berkeley DB database out. Rev 4.1 includes enhanced security, failover and data throughput on multiprocessor systems. It says a customer, and the folks using...

Boards Rated.(boards of directors)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... BusinessWeek says Intel has one of the top 10 boards, Apple one of the worst and Computer Associates one of the most improved although it "still has a ways to go." It figures AMD's, Microsoft's and HP's need work. It says Bill Gates has...

Lindows Unchastened.(AOL denies strategic relationship with Lindows.com )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... When last we looked AOL was reaching for its lawyer having grown impatient with the shenanigans of publicity-seeking Lindows.com and its inflated claims - which it refuses to recant - about having a strategic relationship with AOL that AOL...

LSB Certification Starts Taking Hold.(Mandrake ProSuite 9.0, Red Hat Linux 8.0, SuSE Linux 8.1, SCO's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... The Linux distros are starting to get their operating systems LSB- certified at a clip now. So far this week, the Mandrake ProSuite 9.0, Red Hat Linux 8.0, SuSE Linux 8.1 and SCO's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 have all gotten the open source...

Maddog Gets a New Patron.(Linux International Pres Maddog Hall)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... In the tradition of the industry, SGI is going to pick up the salary of "Maddog" Hall, president of Linux International (LI), something DEC, Compaq and VA Linux have all done before it. SGI is hoping that Hall, the archetypal missionary and a...

Red Hat, Political Correctness & Order Out of Chaos.(Red Hat Linux 8.0)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 7, 2002... Red Hat is "drawing an increasingly sharp circle around Advanced Server as the 'correct' Linux product for enterprise deployments. Red Hat isn't really fighting the other Linux distros - that battle is now mostly about clearing the battlefield...

Open Source Security Summit Set.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 7, 2002... Red Hat is putting together an Open Source Security Summit co-hosted by Dell that's set for Tuesday, October 29 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Apparently they're going to explore the assertion that the open source development model...

Merrill No Longer Bullish on Network Storage.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... In a research note Thursday, Merrill Lynch told investors it was moving to a neutral stance on the network storage sector because a number of uncertainties had crept into the sector. Explaining its decision, Merrill said that fundamentals...

Sun Launches New Workgroup Storage System.(Sun Microsystems' StorEdge 3300 Series)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Sun introduced a new low-end storage system - the StorEdge 3300 Series - targeted at workgroups Wednesday. The StorEdge 3310 SCSI Array, the first product in the new family, which has been OEM'd from Dot Hill Systems, is a 2U 12-drive...

Clouds Break at TrueSAN.(TrueSAN Networks' Cloudbreak storage networking software)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Storage start-up TrueSAN Networks Inc. launched its Cloudbreak storage networking software Tuesday, three months behind schedule. Targeted at mid-tier organizations, Cloudbreak provides a suite of storage and data management software...

McData Debuts 140-Port Director.(McData's Intrepid 6000 Series 140-Port Director )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... McData launched its Intrepid 6000 Series 140-Port Director for storage networks Tuesday. Targeted at the large SAN and FICON segments, the Intrepid 6140 provides 64 to 140 ports in four-port increments in a 12U package en- abling up to 420...

NetApp Merges NAS, SAN.(Network Appliance FAS960 and FAS940, Network Appliance F825 and some software)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Network Appliance introduced its new flagship storage system Tuesday, the FAS900 Series, capable of handling networked storage in both SAN and/or NAS modes. After evangelizing and extolling the virtues of NAS for several years, the company...

Sun's Own.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Gossip says Sun is going to put proprietary technology in the Linux kernel as a differentiator for its so-called Red Hat-derived Sun Linux. If true, such a move could be met with one of several reactions: There's not enough value-add and nobody...

New Xeons Due.(from Intel)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Between, oh, say, mid-October and mid-November, Intel will be overhauling its Xeon line, bringing out new DPs and MPs, new chipsets and new white box boards. The new Xeon DPs will get a 533MHz bus; otherwise, speeds and process stay the same....

The Reason Why You're Afraid To Read Your Broker's.
October 7, 2002... Statement "Since the peak, the market cap of the global tech universe has dropped from $7.4 trillion to $2 trillion - down 73%. There were 122 companies with market caps about $10 million. Today just 35." - UBS Warburg

CA Supplanted.(according to IDC)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... SAP AG has displaced benighted Computer Associates as the fourth- biggest software vendor worldwide, according to IDC. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle retained the top three positions.

Is Lucy Holding the Football Again?(Dell Computer rumored to be looking at AMD Hammer processor for new products)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Bear Stearns says that Intel-pure Dell said it was looking at the AMD Hammer chip during the cocktail party before Dell's analyst meeting this week. Guess that puts them on the record about something that was broadly assumed. We can't wait to...

And Now, Napster, the Movie.
October 7, 2002... Oh, cripe, MTV has taken it into its head to do a movie about Napster, the now-bankrupt song-poaching phenomenon, and its 21-year- old founder Shawn Fanning, who may play himself, collaborate on the screenplay and produce the soundtrack. Wonder...

Oh, Geez, Another CIO Survey.(from Merrill Lynch)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
October 7, 2002... Merrill Lynch has talked to 75 American and 25 European CIOs. It says budgets should be down 2% on average this year. It expects Q4 spending to be flat to down - what else is new? Early planning for 2003 suggests 3% budget growth, but if your...

IBM, Microsoft, Intel Join Hands.
October 7, 2002... Okay, so now there's supposed to be this IBM-Microsoft-Intel initiative afoot in the name of rallying ISVs such as JD Edwards, SAP and SAS, not to mention customers, behind the four- to 16-way xSeries 440. DB2 and SQL Server have a piece of...

It's the Blades, Baby, Not the Razor.(Dell's printer plans)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Credit Suisse expects the new anti-HP axis between Dell and Lexmark to produce an inkjet printer first, then a workgroup laser. It figures Dell will "maintain a small number of printer models." It assumes Dell "will sell the hardware for a loss...

HPQ Job Cuts in France.(HP)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... HP says it's going to eliminate 1,206 jobs in France, half of them at its facility at Grenoble, most of the rest in Paris. It's part of its decision to cut 16,800 people globally.

HPQ Re-branding.(HP)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Sounds to us the way HP is muttering that it's gonna clean up the problem of having two PC brands in the stores that it created by taking over Compaq. It thought having two names would get it more shelf space, not less.

Sun's Geography Lesson.(export rule contravention)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... "We're hoping they drop servers en masse on Iraq." - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, who knows a thing or two about being under heavy fire. Among other things, Sun is accused of selling computers to Egypt in 1998 and Hong Kong in 1997...

Good Riddance.
October 7, 2002... Closed Monday. The single worst quarter since the 1987 crash. The sell-off, led by IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and eBay, that marked its last day sent the Nasdaq to a six-year low and the Dow to a four- year low. The first days of the new...

Lindows Asks Court To Nix Windows Trademark.
October 14, 2002... That legal hand grenade that Microsoft lobbed at Lindows.com to force it to change its name because it was too close to Windows may wind up blowing up in Microsoft's own face. In a turnabout highly dangerous to the software giant, Lindows...

Microsoft Moves To Dispel Passport Paranoia.
October 14, 2002... Microsoft Thursday said that it was pushing Passport - or at least a piece of it - into its opensource-addressing-but-hardly-open-source shared source program in the name of better integration. The move addresses the widespread paranoia...

IBM's Intel Server Boss Bolts to Stratus.(James Gargan)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Stratus Technologies has picked up James Gargan, the guy who's had P&L responsibility for IBM's xSeries line of Intel-based servers, as senior VP, worldwide marketing. Earlier this year Stratus lost senior VP of worldwide sales and...

The Economy & the Stock Market Are Cursed.
October 14, 2002... One of the talking heads on television said Wednesday night that the stock market hadn't been this bad since FDR was in office and we were preparing for World War II - and, remember, it was WWII that got us out of the Great Depression if that's...

Intel Loses Itanium Infringement Case to Intergraph.
October 14, 2002... Intergraph Thursday won the patent infringement case it brought against Intel charging that Intel's precious 64-bit Itanium chip, so long in the making, treads on two of its parallel instruction computing patents. The decision puts Intel...

Microsoft Salts a Few Mines.(Microsoft Office 11.0)(Product Information)
October 14, 2002... Microsoft spent a week filled with busy work. Among other thing its Office people, who are busy conjuring up ways to ratchet up their sales by 100% over the next eight years and bring in another $10 billion - despite the fact that they seem...

Supreme Court Hears Copyright Case.( the "Sonny Bono" Copyright Term Extension (CTEM) Act of 1998 )
October 14, 2002... The Supreme Court seems to be judiciously paused over the prospect of overturning the "Sonny Bono" Copyright Term Extension (CTEM) Act of 1998 that made corporate copyrights good for 95 years, and 70 years, not 50, after an artist's death, same...

Microsoft as Bank.(Microsoft Capital)
October 14, 2002... Inspired perhaps by Credit Suisse's suggestion Microsoft has reportedly set up a small unit called Microsoft Capital to lend people money to buy its software. Back in high summer, when Microsoft's huge $39 billion cash pile was becoming...

Microsoft Ratchets Up on Content Management.(Content Management Server 2002)(Product Information)
October 14, 2002... So it looks like Microsoft has gotten around to dipping the technology it got when it bought NCompass Labs 18 months ago for $36 million in cash in its .NET glitter, achieving Content Management Server 2002, apparently the capstone of its...

Yahoo Hardens IM into Corporate Tool Ahead of AOL & Microsoft.
October 14, 2002... In a continuing effort to find revenues unconnected with trying to sell advertising, pretty much a pointless exercise these days anyway, Yahoo has developed a commercial version of its freebie consumer instant messenger that it wants to sell to...

Red Hat Buys NOCpulse for the Red Hat Network.
October 14, 2002... Red Hat has confirmed reports that it has bought privately held systems management house NOCpulse Inc for its provisioning and its real-time end-to-end monitoring abilities. Ironically the start-up, whose technology will be merged into the...

Lindows Does the UK.(Evesham Technology Ltd licenses LindowsOS)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Lindows is now an export. It's turned up in the Britain in company with established white box shifter Evesham Technology Ltd, which will sell a Lindows bundle called Escape Li for 250 quid, not exactly the tantalizing $199 Lindows come-on that...

Ximian Lays Out the Red Carpet.(Red Carpet Enterprise )(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... So now Ximian is finally in the Red Carpet Enterprise business hoping companies will use its widgetry to automatically update groups of systems on demand or on preset schedules with the latest versions of custom software, Ximian stuff, Linux...

Penguin Hatches Another Machine.(Penguin Computing's 1U Relion 1X)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Penguin Computing has come out with a new general-purpose Red Hat 7.3-based 1U Relion 1X that it's priced to start at $1,199, but the money only buys a 1.8MHz Celeron with 128KB of cache, 256MB of DDR memory, a 20GB drive, no removable media,...

Linux Comes One Step Closer To Liberating the Xbox.(Microsoft's Xbox )
October 14, 2002... On the theory that Microsoft's Xbox must be a Unix widget because it's got a "X" in its name, the so-called open source Xbox Linux Project has been laboring for months to displace the stripped-down Windows 2000 kernel that runs the thing with a...

Free Standards Group Moves on Internationalization.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... The Free Standards Group says it's ready to start certifying Linux distributions as compliant with its recently rechristened OpenI18N internationalization standard, which is supposed to save developers gobs of time thanks to its idea of "write...

Advisory Issued on Linux Use.(TowerGroup)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... TowerGroup, the market researcher, estimates that Linux is now deployed on 14% of the servers at North American brokerage houses, where Microsoft, represented by both NT and Windows 2000, controls 54% of the boxes and Unix 27%, leaving 5%,...

Borland Rescues Starbase.(buying Starbase Corporation for roughly $24 million )
October 14, 2002... Borland is buying Starbase Corporation for roughly $24 million cash, $2.75 a share, a neighborhood Starbase shareholders haven't been in in over a year. Starbase has run up $95 million in losses on $43 million in sales in the four quarters...

Guess the '90s Are Over.(Forbes ASAP shuts down)
October 14, 2002... Saying that there's "no market for a dedicated new economy publication," Forbes tossed its 10-year-old Forbes ASAP magazine, a pioneer in covering the digital economy, on the proverbial dung heap the other day along with other trashed media...

Warburg Wipes the Floor with AMD.(UBS Warburg )(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... "After pre-announcing a 25% revenue shortfall, AMD closed down 32% at $3.65, a long way down from the low-teen level when Jerry left. AMD still seems to be working through a never-ending pile of channel inventory, a key member of the Hammer...

Gartner Writes Off Opteron.(AMD's Opteron microprocessor)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... At Gartner's big industry bash in Florida this week - despite the economy it got 6,000 people to come - two of its analysts, George Weiss and John Enck, trashed the chances of AMD's hybrid 64-bit Opteron chip having any impact on the market...

Borland Buys Swedish House.(BoldSoft MDE Aktiebolag )(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Borland has bought a five-year-old Stockholm company by the name of BoldSoft MDE Aktiebolag that it says it will give it a leg up in design-driven development for the .NET Framework, enough to position it, it said, as the "only independent path...

Oh Joy, Another Crystal Ball Heard From.(Dataquest forecast for IT industry)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Dataquest says that if you factor out telecom services, total IT spending will be off by half a percent this year to $557.5 billion, followed by hardware spending at $323.3 billion, where price competition in RISC/Unix has lowered revenues. It...

Microsoft & the Glories of Storage.(Windows .NET Server 2003 from Microsoft)
October 14, 2002... As part of the inevitable froth leading up to the eventual release of the much-delayed, often renamed Windows .NET Server 2003, but using words that seem foreign in its mouth, Microsoft this week chatted up the operating system's...

AMD To Develop Boxes for China.(China Basic Education Software Company Ltd in joint venture called Beijing CBE AMD Information Technology Company Ltd )
October 14, 2002... AMD and one China Basic Education Software Company Ltd are setting up a joint venture called the Beijing CBE AMD Information Technology Company Ltd to develop a Student PC, Teacher PC and Classroom Server using AMD's x86 chips, Mips-based...

EMC, Dell Deepen Relationship.(EMC's Clariion CX400)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... EMC brought out the expected Clariion CX400 networked storage system Monday, the second model in the mid-range CX line it started two months ago, and naturally its storage buddy Dell is running with it. It maxs out at 4.4 terabytes of...

McData Lowers Guidance.($80 million in Q3)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Following on the heels of EMC's warning last week, McData lowered its Q3 guidance Tuesday. It said revenues would come in between $80 million and $81 million rather than the $83 million-$84 million it previously projected. Despite the hit, it...

Scale Eight Gets Cray-SGI Vet as Boss.(Robert "Bo" Ewald)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... The ex-COO of SGI and erstwhile president of Cray Research, Robert "Bo" Ewald, presumably brought in by the VCS, has been named president and CEO of Scale Eight with its NAS aspirations and storage service business. Since his SGI stint, he's...

Gadzoox To Move.(Gadzoox Networks)
October 14, 2002... The bankruptcy court is evidently going to let limping Gadzoox Networks, which hit Chapter 11 a month or so ago, get out from under its lease and relocate its headquarters from San Jose to Santa Clara in the Valley to save itself $2.7 million a...

Maybe Arizona Had a Better Basketball Team.(Kenneth E. Lonchar)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... The boys on Wall Street think they've tracked down the real undergraduate credentials of Veritas' fanciful ex-CFO, bounced the other day because he invented an MBA from Stanford, to Idaho State University where one Kenneth E Lonchar got a BBA...

Ah, the Old Poison-the-Well Trick.(Siebel Systems; SAP Americas)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Siebel Systems, which wasn't exactly upfront about his departure, has reportedly been badmouthing its former executive VP, worldwide sales operations Bill McDermott to Wall Street since he went to work as CEO and president of SAP Americas at...

Lineo Will Reportedly Change Hands Again.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Embedix, aka Lineo, the embedded Linux firm that hit the wall running then reorganized, thinks it's going to get bought soon. It's something like 60% owned by the Canopy Group, 20% owned by Egan Venture Capital, the venture arm of EMC's...

.NET RC2 Date.(Microsoft's .NET Server release candidate)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... November 15 is penciled for the second .NET Server release candidate to come out. Feeling uppity, Microsoft says to check out Netcraft. There are more RC1s running web sites than Sun has Solaris 9 servers.

Ah, The Old 80-20 Rule.(software bugs and errors)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... "About 20% of the bugs cause 80% of all errors, and - this is stunning to me - 1% of bugs cause half of all errors." - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail to users.

Microsoft's Death Wish Reasserts Itself.
October 14, 2002... In what sounds like a really bad idea, akin to painting a target on your chest during hunting season, reports out of Paris from an RSA Security conference over there have Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie publicly trotting out the notion of Microsoft...

Damn, Those Bugs Add Up.(cost estimate by NIST, the National Institute of Standards)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... NIST, the National Institute of Standards, figures software bugs cost the US economy roughly $59.5 billion a year.

Yoohoo, You've Got Microsoft Mail.(AOL Time Warner is moving to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... God, there are days ya just gotta love this industry. AOL Time Warner - or most of it anyway - is dumping its apparently customized AOL e- mail - insiders call it a piece of utter cr*p - and are moving to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. The...

Microsoft Dodges the Bullet.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Since the Microsoft antitrust penalties decision is expected in the next few weeks, Credit Suisse First Boston in a short analysis called "Escape from Alcatraz" decided there's not much for Microsoft to worry about. It figures that only two of...

Jim Seymour Dead.
October 14, 2002... Industry pundit, columnist and gadfly Jim Seymour reportedly died on the operating table the other day or right after a procedure that wasn't supposed to be life threatening. Hey, Seymour, if you're up there, you'll appreciate this. We haven't...

So How Come the New Economy Bombed.
October 21, 2002... Well, it seems it wasn't just God's work smiting - like Sodom and Gomorra - the insufferably stupid, vapid and hollow ideas that flourished under the New Economy's brief sojourn and the insufferably greedy and undeserving people who went along...