InfoWorld articles from June 2000

InfoWorld archives from June 2000

Speeding Web services - Microsoft.Net adds oomph to software-as-service idea.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... ALTHOUGH THE NOTION of buying software as a network service is hardly new, Microsoft's sweeping Microsoft.Net initiative, launched last week, will accelerate the development and adoption of this emerging computing model, competitors and...

Memory chip shortage arises.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... A predicted shortage has begun to push up the price tag of SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) as the number of devices -- cell phones, digital audio players, and PDAs (personal digital assistants) -- that require the memory chips is multiplying. The...

AT&T wins on cable network front.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... In the battle over cable broadband access, AT&T, in Basking Ridge, N.J., last week pulled off one victory but stopped short of another in its deal with ISP Excite@Home, in Redwood City, Calif. A U.S. appellate court last week sided with AT&T,...

Dell to use Exterprise sell-side platform.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Dell Computer, in Austin, Texas, will use the Exterprise Active Marketplace gateway for the sell-side portion of Dell's business-to- business e-commerce exchange, which will launch in the third quarter. The exchange will be utilized for...

WorldCom-Sprint merger faces roadblock.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... WorldCom and Sprint ran into trouble last week trying to get their proposed merger plans past the European Union (EU), which can authorize, block, or amend all large mergers affecting the European market. Under the EU's merger control...

eHelp boosts customer assistance.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... San Diego-based eHelp, formerly Blue Sky Software, will unveil its DynaHelp customer assistance software this week, hoping to help companies avoid the problem of online customers abandoning their purchases. By adding proactive user assistance...

Switch to decimals weighs on stock markets.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... WHILE THERE WAS much buzz about e-commerce strategies at a securities industry event in New York last week, a potentially major operations problem is lurking -- the move from listing stock prices in fractions to decimals. In fact, the...

Internet appliances to make their mark.(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... IAs (Internet appliances) will be a hot topic at PC Expo: Sun Microsystems is expected to show its recently discounted SunRay line of IAs; Intel will promote its newly announced Dot.Station; and IA partners Gateway Computer and America Online...

OS and application cloning offered.(from Logicube)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Logicube, in Chatsworth, Calif., will announce a software system that clones OSes and applications from a primary hard drive to a target drive at speeds as fast as 850MB per minute, according to the company. The Solitaire technology enables...

WizCom to develop Palm translation tool.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Jerusalem-based WizCom Technologies at PC Expo is expected to announce an agreement with GalTech Soft and Kalanit to develop and distribute a multilingual translation tool for use with the Palm handheld device. The translation technology will...

Transmeta fires up low-power chip strategy.(Product Information)
June 26, 2000... TRANSMETA WILL make its long-awaited announcement on the opening day of PC Expo in New York this week as to which OEMs will be the first to load their mobile computers with the company's low-power Crusoe processor. The initiative could...

PC Expo exhibits wealth of wireless services - Wireless collaboration and mobile access are featured.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... AS CORPORATE WORKERS armed with wireless devices gain increased mobility, a spate of companies will use this week's PC Expo in New York to showcase technologies designed to improve wireless collaboration methods and streamline mobile access...

Heavyweights help start-ups.(IBM and Compaq)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... TRYING TO WIN the hearts, minds, and wallets of promising dot-coms, IBM and Compaq last week launched comprehensive programs to bundle their respective hardware, software, and services to help push fledgling companies off to a running start....

MicroStrategy readies easier data analysis.(MicroStrategy 7.0 decision support software)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... DATABASE EXPERTS say that slicing and dicing data, in a way akin to data warehousing, practically requires a doctorate in statistics. When MicroStrategy announces MicroStrategy 7.0 this week, the company will aim to make analyzing data easier...

Exchange evolution points to higher savings.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... IN A SIGNIFICANT move to de-liver on its promise of building trading exchanges that reduce operating and financing costs, rather than just giving companies access to commodities, Commerce One inked a deal this week with XML Solutions. ...

Vendors tout privacy spec.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... CONSUMER FEAR of the potential for privacy invasion in corporate data- collection and sharing practices has fueled support for a new browser specification on display last week. Microsoft, IBM, and AT&T were among a cast of vendors that...

IBM enhances EIP's search capabilities.(Enterprise Internet Portal 7.1)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... IBM LAST WEEK debuted a beefed-up version of its Enterprise Internet Portal (EIP) that allows users to do broader Web-based document searches across both IBM and non-IBM data sources. Version 7.1 also contains the promised Unified Content...

Yahoo aims at enterprises - New portal joins Yahoo content with corporate data.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... THE CORPORATE portal market will gain two new members with different approaches this week as Yahoo and Octopus.com make their forays into the business portal arena. Yahoo will leverage its My Yahoo personalization technology and Web...

Brokat Infosystems makes tools grab with acquisitions.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... BY PURCHASING both GemStone Systems and Blaze Software, Brokat Infosystems aims to create an integrated e-business infrastructure. In the process, it may give GemStone's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) application server a breath of new life....

Radcom aims to assure enterprises of VOIP quality.(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... A NETWORK MANAGEMENT tool designed to measure the quality of VOIP (voice over IP) calls may make telephony applications more palatable for the enterprise. Unwilling to put up with erratic quality levels on voice calls, most enterprises...

IBM unveils NetVista PCs.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... IBM has announced a new series of NetVista PCs. The NetVista A40 PC will ship with Intel Pentium III processors ranging in speed from 667MHz to 933MHz, with a 133MHz front side bus, 128MB or 64MB of SDRAM (synchronous DRAM), and the new Intel...

Bundled T1 services offered.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Cable & Wireless has unveiled NxT-1, a bundled T1 Internet access service based on MLPPP (Multi-Link Point-to-Point Protocol) standards. NxT-1 bundles T1 circuits together for better throughput and flexibility to accommodate a need for more...

Personalization tool upgraded.(Essentials 2.5 from Personify)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... Personify this week will upgrade its flagship profiling and personalization platform, Essentials, with application frameworks that will let businesses get more sophisticated information on their e- commerce operations. Essentials 2.5 and...

ACQUISITION: Nextlink finalizes Concentric buyout.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Nextlink Communications last week sewed up its $2.54 billion acquisition of Concentric, a supplier of broadband access and Internet services. The combined company initially will target small to midsize business customers, offering an array of...

BANKRUPTCY: Inacom files with court for Chapter 11 protection.(Company Financial Information)
June 26, 2000... THE VULTURES CIRCLED last week after technology services and products provider Inacom announced it had filed for bankruptcy and will cease operations. Atlanta-based Inacom filed for court protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S....

ACQUISITION: AlphaBlox acquires Halfbrain.com.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... ALPHABLOX LAST WEEK announced that it has acquired Halfbrain.com and is integrating that company's BrainMatter spreadsheet into its business intelligence platform. The AlphaBlox platform technology, called AlphaBlox Analysis Suite, helps...

ERP stalwarts SAP and J.D. Edwards emphasize integration.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... INTEGRATION WAS THE byword this past week for SAP and J.D. Edwards as they strove to show how they can link their ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to e-business front ends through Internet or third-party technologies. At...

British Telecom claims to have patent for hyperlinks.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS (BT) says it invented the hyperlink technology used on the Internet and it has a U.S. patent to prove it. As a result, the company is asking U.S. ISPs to pay for using the technology, London-based BT said last week....

Telecom providers, building owners battle over roof access.(Government Activity)
June 26, 2000... COMPANIES OFFERING fixed wireless and other telecommunications services are lobbying for regulation that would allow them to circumvent office building owners who restrict access to rooftops and other parts of buildings. A group of 22...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Microsoft: If you have a site with multiple Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 computers, then LDAP searches for the Home-MDB or the Home-Mail Transfer Agent attributes may not work. When doing a paged LDAP search, everything goes smoothly...

Supreme Court may hear antitrust case.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... THE LEGAL PROCEEDING surrounding the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft appeared to take on a clearer course last week as the federal judge overseeing the case sent it directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, relying on a...

From pocket protectors to stock options? Cobol developers and their code find new life in legacy-to-Java conversion tools.(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... WHAT HAPPENS WHEN technology innovation outpaces the workforce's capacity to adapt? Answer: more technology. The dearth of information technology workers that has plagued the industry for years continues unabated. And it doesn't help that...

Open Market, Accrue announce OEM plan.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Open Market officials announced that the company will integrate Accrue's browser analysis application, Insight Commerce, into Open Market's recently announced Marketing Studio, an application that manages e-marketing campaigns. Using Accrue's...

Andersen and enCommerce ally.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Andersen Consulting officials announced an alliance with enCommerce by which Andersen will use enCommerce's getAccess software to enhance security for e-business Web portal payments, service orders, and products that will be available to...

E-biz management company Savvion launched.(BusinessManager 2.0 from Savvion)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... Tech Deployment International (TDI), formerly a developer of Web- enabled applications, has given itself a new name and entered the e- business management arena. The company released BusinessManager2.0, a Java-based software program that...

The ABCs of enterprise procurement - Corporate acquisitions departments can save money and time by moving to the Internet.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... IF YOU'VE EVER purchased items for your company, you know how frustrating, time-consuming, and costly that process can be. Suppose, for example, that your company sells equipment that's comprised of various custom-manufactured parts --...

Selecting an ERP service provider - Signing up with an ASP to host your ERP apps presents both problems and opportunities.
June 26, 2000... ONCE YOU'VE decided that your business would be better served by outsourcing its ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications, your next step is to select the provider that best meets your needs. The relationship between a company and its...

Migrating ERP data to an ASP data center - Teaming up with an ASP can save you time and money -- but first you have to move your data off- premises.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... ONE OF YOUR company's most valuable assets is its stockpile of business process data. Personnel rosters, customer records, transactions archives, and inventory logs constitute the very essence of your company's activities. So it's not...

Alternatives to the traditional ASP model - Integrating your in-house ERP apps with ASP offerings can lower costs and boost flexibility.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... ANY COMPANY WOULD gladly pay for a service that's more reliable and less expensive than an in-house solution. But despite all the recent ballyhoo about outsourcing your applications, the ASP (application service provider) model is not always...

Damango targets emerging e-biz markets - CTO Grant Wood says that smaller service providers such as Damango can do more for customers.(Company Operations)
June 26, 2000... AVOIDING MARKET buzzwords like the plague, Minneapolis-based Damango prefers to call itself an e-business enabler, rather than an ASP (application service provider) or market exchange provider. But getting heard above the noise and confusion...

Tyco VP upgrades ERP across multiple platforms - Diversified organization retains HostLogic to deliver scalable, flexible enterprise resource planning solution.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... ABOUT ONE YEAR AGO, the folks at Tyco International came face-to-face with a big software systems problem. Tyco, a $28 billion diversified firm that -- among other things -- manufactures electronic safety systems, disposable medical products,...

DSL passes interoperablity test.(Technology Information)
June 26, 2000... FORTY-TWO DSL vendors demonstrated publicly for the first time at SuperComm the "any-to-any" interoperability of their DSLAMs (DSL access multiplexers) to their CPEs (customer premises equipment). The companies ran their equipment at a...

Ericsson demonstrates first Bluetooth phone.(Ericsson T36)(Product Development)
June 26, 2000... MOBILE PHONE vendor L.M. Ericsson Telephone demonstrated its Bluetooth mobile phone, the tri-band-ready and WAP-ready (Wireless Application Protocol) T36, at the CommunicAsia conference and exhibition, the Swedish mobile phone and network...

All we are saying is give global wireless technology standards a chance.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... EVERYTHING'S going global these days. Global economy, global travel, global warming. More than ever before, we are all realizing that we share the same space, the same food, the same world. So why is it that we can't get a global wireless...

Taiwanese network appliance makers eager for Bluetooth spec wrap upre.(Technology Information)
June 26, 2000... THE DRUDGERY of standards setting and product certification will not stand in the way of Taiwanese manufacturers who are champing at the bit to ship Bluetooth wireless network products in the third quarter of this year. More than 60...

FCC chairman preaches deregulation.(Government Activity)
June 26, 2000... THE CHAIRMAN of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said deregulation is becoming a worldwide movement. The U.S. government, which led the way on deregulation when it forced the divestiture of AT&T's telecommunications monopoly nearly...

Small-LAN choices increase.(News Briefs)
June 26, 2000... A HOST OF OEM vendors at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, demonstrated -- or promised -- devices for home and office LANs, including tools to connect handheld computers to networks and to other devices. Buyers found several...

Lucent sets SuperComm networking stage.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES hit the ground running at SuperComm with a slew of announcements addressing wireless-technology developments, high-speed routing, and performance enhancements in its ATM switch line. Joining forces with Sun...

Telcordia VP cautious over uptake of wireless technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... THOUGH WIRELESS communications technology has great potential for some applications, there are major doubts about whether it will become a dominant force in broadband technology, Robert W. Lucky, corporate vice president of Telcordia, said in...

Legacy systems holding back incumbent telecom vendors.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... TRADITIONAL telecommunications companies are lagging behind new players when it comes to exploiting the Internet, according to David Hoffman, a director in the Information, Communication, and Entertainment division of PricewaterhouseCoopers....

E-CRM calls customer king.(Product Information)
June 26, 2000... Electronic customer relationship management software can help e- businesses effectively manage and serve their most important and valuable asset: the customer THE GROWTH OF e-business and the continuing rise in the volume of online...

Applixware suite targets Linux users.(VistaSource's Applixware Office 5.0 office productivity suite)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... SELECTING AN OFFICE productivity suite can be a daunting task. For many users, their most frequently used business software is a word processor or spreadsheet, such as those in Microsoft Office. However, recent events involving Microsoft,...

Sun hits the mark with StarOffice Suite.(Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 5.2 business application suite)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... FOR SOME TIME now, businesses have implemented Microsoft Office to support the creation of corporate documents. However, three recent developments may well level the productivity suite playing field and open doors for companies to implement...

Counting out pocket change.(Product Information)
June 26, 2000... Microsoft's Pocket PC may finally bring Microsoft what it wanted all along: A Windows CE-based palmtop computer that takes up where personal information managers, such as the Palm, leave off AS DID THE personal computer before it,...

Rugged Cassiopeia is easy to use.(Casio's Casio Cassiopeia E-115 personal digital assistant)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... BY NOW, WE'VE all learned the value of handheld computers and PDAs (personal digital assistants) for today's modern businessperson. Immediate access to data from anywhere can make or break deals. To date, Palm has been the overwhelming...

Slim Jornada is a lower-priced choice.(Hewlett-Packard's HP Jornada 545)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... EARLIER VERSIONS OF Microsoft handhelds -- the ones that used Windows CE Version 2.0 -- were poorly designed, the most egregious flaws being short battery life, large size, heavy weight, and screens that were difficult to read. The newly...

WINDOW MANAGER: Improve the speed of Web pages, video, and other Net transfers in Windows 2000 and 9x.(Product Support)
June 26, 2000... READERS JAMES BLIESE and Ron Houtman report they're getting greater performance out of their NICs (network interface cards). This translates into faster Web downloads if your corporate Internet access or cable modem/DSL router runs through...

SECURITY WATCH: Tracking an attack often provides little benefit; top deterrent is secure systems everywhere.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... EVER SINCE JACK installed his personal firewall on his cable modem, he's seen hundreds of port scans hitting the box. At first he took them seriously, worrying about what these cybermiscreants were up to. As Jack quickly learned, finding out...

Putting the development squeeze on the Pocket PC.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... As a fully functioning 32-bit Windows operating system, Pocket PC can make a pleasing development platform, especially for C++ applications THE COMPARISONS are inevitable. Microsoft finally has a pocket-size PC ready to compete with...

Clever Pendragon Forms takes the sting out of mobile forms development - Easy-to-use tool lets even nontechies create PDA apps.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 26, 2000... AS MORE AND MORE companies adopt handheld devices, the need for custom PDA (personal digital assistant) software is reaching an all-time high. Unfortunately, despite the fact that PDA applications are easy to develop because they're less...

TEST CENTER RX: Updating an existing SQL Server app calls for resourceful action.(Product Support)
June 26, 2000... I've just inherited a project that was created by a group of employees who are no longer with my company. It's a Microsoft SQL Server database and Active Server Pages [ASP] application that deals with order tracking, inventory, and customer...

Start-ups raise salary expectations.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... EVEN BEFORE DOT-COM fever reached its height, hiring managers at established companies in need of technical talent faced the stiff challenge of losing their employees to the lure of start-ups. In today's hotter market, many IT recruiters and...

Stock options are key across the board.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... ONE AREA WHERE START-UPS and dot-coms continue to shake up compensation scales is in the area of employee stock options. The InfoWorld Compensation Survey found that almost twice as many respondents at start-ups were getting stock options...

Fishing in the same pond with different bait: Corporate recruiting.(Company Operations)
June 26, 2000... CARL LOPES IS director of employment and Steve Baraban is the technical recruitment manager at Staples, an office-supply retailing chain based in Framingham, Mass. Staples last year filled 256 corporate IT positions and currently has about 65...

Fishing in the same pond with different bait: Dot-com recruiting.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... RACHEL MCKEE AND Kara Gray are founding partners in Preferred Solutions, a 3-year-old recruiting company in Woodridge, Ill., that specializes in IT recruitment for Internet start-ups. InfoWorld: How important is it for you to know the...

Prevent intellectual property theft.(part 2)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... Last week we listed different kinds of intellectual property that are worth protecting. This week, in the second part of a two-part series, we list the steps you can take to protect your business from intellectual property theft. IF...

STATE SNAPSHOT: Michigan.(IT job market)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... Michigan's economy continues to soar, with excellent job prospects for IT pros. Vital statistics Population: State - 9,863,775 (ranks 8th in nation) Detroit area - 5,457,583 Unemployment rate: State - 3.0%...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: NetWare users get dissed while IBM goes around Sun to create Blue Java.(News Briefs)
June 26, 2000... LAST WEEK RANDI drove me to the doctor to get my "love handle" removed. Actually, it was not a normal love handle: The medical term is lipoma, which translates from the Latin to "big globe of fat." The whole experience reminded me of the...

THE GRIPE LINE: Telecom rules and merger lead to service provider squashing its customers.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... WHEN GIANTS ARE ON THE MOVE, little guys can get stomped under their feet. Even if the giants don't mean any harm, little guys are still squashed just as flat. At 3:30 p.m. on the last Friday in May, the IT director of a small Dallas...

NET PROPHET: Learn, know, and live them: The seven metrics of highly successful Web sites.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... ON THE WEB, no one knows you're a dog -- or why you came to a Web site, what you bought, or why you never came back. As we experience the great dot-com shakeout of 2000, Web businesses are under pressure to perform. Solid metrics provide...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Web time gets real with software services.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 26, 2000... Consider how long the computing model has been a barrier to your business. From the days of centralized hosts that had an ironclad clamp on data and processing to client/server's complexity and rigidity, businesses goals have been regularly...

WebSphere strategy coalesces - IBM to outline WebSphere's pivotal e- business role.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... AFTER MONTHS OF talking about it in bits and pieces, IBM this week will outline how it will position WebSphere as the software hub of its e- business strategy, bringing together a core group of platform services. IBM has been slowly...

Virtual Private Networks get easier, cheaper - Services from OpenReach and Genuity aim to lower the VPN entry barrier.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... TWO COMPANIES ARE rolling out managed VPN services that attempt to address two big stumbling blocks with VPNs: the cost and difficulty associated with implementing them. Wakefield, Mass.-based OpenReach this week will launch its TrueSpan...

Exchanges bring efficiency to food industry - Manufacturers and distributors consider how perishables might be managed online.(online marketplaces)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... WHEN GORDON HUNT, president of eFruit International, in Orlando, Fla., approached orange-juice sellers two years ago about entering online marketplaces to reduce inefficiencies, they told him this: If something isn't broke, don't fix it....

The hand that moves your business - ERP software moves to the Web, presenting both pitfalls and opportunities.(enterprise resource planning)
June 26, 2000... BACK IN THE DAY, the choice was simple: You either built your own ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, or (more likely) you bought it. But times have changed. Today's ERP functions must be more adaptable than the financial,...

Will ASPs drive the market? As more IT shops look to ASPs to provide ERP applications, the balance of customer power is shifting into the hands of ASPs.(application service providers)
June 26, 2000... IS CHANGE ALWAYS good? It depends on which side of the change you're on.If you're one of the countless emerging ASPs (application service providers) in the market today, change is very good. The slow but steady move to an outsourcing model...

ENTERPRISE TOOLBOX: Service-based office suites are the killer apps to speed adoption of network computing.(Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 5.2; VistaSource's Applixware Office 5.0)(Product Information)(Column)
June 26, 2000... ORACLE CEO LARRY ELLISON pegged it correctly when he described the future of business computing as network-based. Although he was ahead of the curve in pushing network computing, the rest of the world is now catching up somewhat with his...

Intel exec touts network focus.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... CONVERGED VOICE and data networks will be critical factors in the growth of e-commerce, according to Intel. The company is fostering the development of this new generation of infrastructure through an aggressive acquisition and...

Customer relationship management for rent - Outsourcing customer service can boost customer satisfaction and sales without steep start- up costs.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... EVERY COMPANY THAT sells products or services needs to maintain good customer relationships, but nowhere is this more important than on the Web. With competitors just a few clicks away, every e-business must build customer loyalty in order to...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Linux is reaching a critical turning point as the Microsoft saga continues to unfold.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... IF YOU TALK privately with representatives from ISVs, you'll find that they have been itching for ages to rally behind some platform other than Windows. Microsoft has left such a long trail of dead bodies that few ISVs remain in denial about...

Dot-coms revamp salary landscape - Stock volatility may put a damper on dot-com fever, but the impact on compensation is lasting.
June 26, 2000... LIKE MANY IT WORKERS job-hunting in the past year, John Tawadros found that the tight labor market offered many lucrative opportunities. In the end, his choices boiled down to taking a job as a project manager with an established high-tech...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: As users rely on multiple devices, the time is now for vendors to cooperate.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... Whether you believe that we now live in the post-PC era or the PC-plus era, the number of devices we use to access information is getting out of control. In fact, it is not uncommon to find the typical road warrior decked out with a mobile...

FROM THE ETHER: Immortality or extinction: It all hinges on your use of the Honor System Virus.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 26, 2000... LAST WEEK WE talked about the doubling of computer power, now taken for granted after 35 years of Moore's Law. It seems likely to continue -- if not in silicon, then in molecular, biological, DNA, or other postsemiconductor forms of...

Mobile commerce takes off - Consumer-driven initiatives aimed at loyalty, convenience.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... THE SECOND HALF of 2000 will witness an unprecedented explosion in mobile e-commerce, or so-called m-commerce, fueled mainly by three industry segments: financial services, travel, and retail. Although many companies are still grappling...