InfoWorld articles from June 2001

InfoWorld archives from June 2001

InfoWorld(R) Readers' Choice Awards.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... INFOWORLD IN THE PAST RAN its influential Readers' Choice Awards every year, but for the past few years, the awards were dropped. This issue marks the awards' return in grand style. Finalists for the awards were nominated by InfoWorld editors,...

Driving site traffic - Miller Electric moved sales online without cutting out channel partners.(Company Operations)
June 4, 2001... FOUR AND A HALF YEARS ago Appleton, Wis.-based Miller Electric, a manufacturer of welding equipment, made its first foray onto the Web with a site that many might call a "cyberbrochure." Millerwelds.com was primarily used to provide information...

Venturing into capital.(Company Operations)
June 4, 2001... Technology VP envisions a new VC marketplace AS VICE PRESIDENT of technology at Round1, Jordan Ritter is building the infrastructure for a financial services company that hopes to democratize the process by which startup companies raise...

W3C builds on standards work - Interoperability and Web Services Flow Language are the focus in Hong Kong.
June 4, 2001... CONSCIOUS THAT THE future success of e-commerce and Web services hinges on interoperability between different vendors' products, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) attempted to fill in some of the gaps in the current array of standards at its...

At your Web service - Companies find that their existing business models are already the 'next big thing'.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... AS THE MARKETING OF WEB services rises toward a blazing crescendo, some companies have realized that their own business models were a perfect fit for a Web-services architecture before anyone christened the model with that name. Whereas...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Heavenly realignment - Is the gravity of the open-source movement finally having an effect on Microsoft's orbit?(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... THE CHANCES ARE good that you are now aware of the brouhaha between Microsoft and the open-source community, stoked several weeks back by Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie. Microsoft announced its intention to pilot a source code...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Sizing up service levels - Negotiating metrics with company executives distances IT from the rest of the business and does more harm than good.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We believe their career opportunities will be enhanced by the new strategic partnership. TRANSLATION: They're outta here! -- This week's contributor chose to remain anonymous to avoid enhanced career opportunities....

SECURITY ADVISER: Federal insecurities - Are problems at NIPC just another FBI blunder? Government vulnerability appears inevitable.(Government Activity)(Column)
June 4, 2001... IF YOU BELIEVE everything you read, the U.S. government's Web sites are going to be the next Pearl Harbor. Headlines scream, "Feds Under Attack," and members of Congress have another excuse to hold hearings and lay the groundwork for their...

THE OPEN SOURCE: New Zealand untapped - It lacks the riches of the States, but that's what makes New Zealand ideal for open-source solutions.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... ALL RIGHT. Next week I promise I will get to the topic of using Python for Web applications programming. Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye. As for this week, I just got back from New Zealand and Fiji, and I simply couldn't...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 4, 2001... Nice writing, but... BOB LEWIS IS wrong when he says in his column titled "The ERP, CRM difference" (see Survival Guide, May 21): "Then there's the fourth and perhaps most important concept: Customer relationships aren't to be left to...

CTO DIRECTIONS: Turn to the customer - Aspiring CTOs need to keep the technology impact on the customer in mind at all times.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... IN BUSINESS, IT IS OFTEN said that the customer is king, and any IT professional aiming to be CTO must understand this. To satisfy customers, a company must rely on its CTO to provide leadership, strategic planning, and direction....

WIRELESS WORLD: False hope of rescue - A flaw in wireless reporting of auto accidents may mean that help is not on the way when you need it most.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... I HAVE FOUND a flaw in an important automotive safety system, and I'm telling you so that you can take preventive measures, such as keeping your cell phone within reach at all times. General Motors and its OnStar customers -- Honda Acura,...

WINDOW MANAGER: Stupid font tricks - Find free TrueType and other funky fonts, use Notepad for logging, and run CDs without a CD drive.(Product Support)(Tutorial)
June 4, 2001... THIS WEEK I'LL share with you some tips on Notepad, free fonts, and virtual CDs. Automatic Notepad log I wrote at the beginning of the year about secret settings you can use in Windows 2000 and some older versions of Windows that allow...

NET PROPHET: BlueLight special lesson - Kmart's unsuccessful spin-off, BlueLight.com, taught the retail giant an important lesson about b-to-c e-commerce.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... CBS MARKETWATCH caused quite a stir recently when it reported that Kmart planned to buy back its Web spin-off BlueLight.com. As it turned out, the story is not entirely true. BlueLight .com is going to rely more on the merchandising, marketing,...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Relationship advice for techies.(Humor)(Column)
June 4, 2001... YO! DR. LOVE is in the house. (I've always wanted to say that.) OK, so I'm breaking from convention here and doing something you've never before read in Notes From the Field: relationship advice for techies. Since my offer last week to be...

THE GRIPE LINE: Legal sanctions for spam - Current anti-spam legislation floating around the halls of Congress could do more harm than good for the Internet.(Government Activity)
June 4, 2001... I WISH OUR congressional representatives took a version of the Hippocratic oath before each day of lawmaking. In particular, it would be well enough if those crafting anti-spam legislation were reminded that at least they should do no harm. ...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: The rules of ROI in CRM - ROI is everything in the IT industry, and with CRM, the true leaders use this application to their competitive advantage.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... WE CERTAINLY LOVE our ROI analyses in IT, don't we? Whether you call it the business case or the financial payback, ROI is the precursor to most IT projects. We even apply ROI to intangible things, such as training. Simply put, ROI is the...

FOR THE RECORD: Sun must jigger Java to seal Web services future.(Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
June 4, 2001... At this week's JavaOne conference, top Sun officials will argue that the promise of Java has finally been fulfilled. And, to a large degree, they're right. Sun outmaneuvered the Microsoft juggernaut by creating a cross-platform software...

ABOVE THE NOISE: The second wave of the Internet.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... A MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT that could ultimately redefine the current world order of the industry is slowly but surely working its way through the infrastructure of enterprise computing. In the first few years of the Internet era, the clear...

Lucent, Alcatel call off merger talks.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Alcatel and Lucent Technologies last week ended talks about a possible merger of the two companies. Talks between the French telecom company and the American communication equipment vendor resulted in no agreements and talks have been...

Sun clips revenue expectations.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Sun Microsystems issued a warning last week, saying it expects results for the fourth quarter to fall below previous forecasts. Sun now expects revenue for its fourth quarter, ending on June 30, to fall between $3.8 billion and $4.0 billion,...

EMC to slash.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... EMC last week said it will cut its worldwide work force by 1,100 employees or 4 percent. EMC will incur a charge of $21.8 million or one cent per share for the company's second quarter that ends June 30 to cover the costs of cutting jobs. ...

SuperComm vendors target ISP wallets - Self-service provisioning to take center stage at show in response to fiscal downturn.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... VENDORS AT THE annual SuperComm 2001 conference this week in Atlanta are expected to showcase products that can help ISPs and carriers save money, with the hope of alleviating service providers' struggle during the economic downturn. ...

Users command cost control.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... WITH THE telecommunications market in turmoil, enterprise customers this week at the SuperComm 2001 trade show in Atlanta will see clear evidence that theirs is now a buyer's market. "Things have come full circle, and a solid enterprise...

Dot-travel wars take to skies.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... DESPITE THE ANTITRUST cries of consumer groups and competitors, the Web's newest online travel site is ready for liftoff, touting server technology as its strategic advantage. A joint venture operated by five big U.S. airlines, Orbitz.com...

BEA, Contivo to ease b-to-b links - Deal marries WebLogic and data mapping to help b-to-b apps scale.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... BEA SYSTEMS WILL integrate Contivo's modeling and design technology into its WebLogic e-business platform in order to streamline interactions among business-to-business trading partners, said officials who will make a formal announcement this...

E-learning joins corporate ranks - Cisco, OutStart attempt to educate enterprise masses with new offerings.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... ENTERPRISE-LEVEL online learning may become a bit easier to swallow as vendors such as Cisco Systems and OutStart deploy systems for delivering e-learning content. Continuing its strong push into content networking that began with an...

The Bug Report.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet MICROSOFT Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 broke the ability of programs to lock out a user account. After installing the Service Pack, "account locked" status might get lost in the cache and not assigned to...

Safe, cheap backup.(Advanced Digital Information's Scalar 10K)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... TAPE STORAGE still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), as well as improved tape...

BMC to stress flexibility - Company wants to know what users think of Patrol 7 and is promising to listen.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... WORKING TO ENSURE flexibility and infrastructure options for its upcoming offerings, BMC Software will give its customers a unique opportunity this week to help design and critique the company's forthcoming version of its Patrol service-level...

CRM gets access boost - PeopleSoft 8 CRM relies on Web to help enterprises improve customer service.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... WITH THIS WEEK'S unveiling of its next-generation CRM (customer relationship management) suite, PeopleSoft is banking on the Web to change the way enterprises handle customers. Written in HTML, PeopleSoft 8 CRM -- to be announced at...

Upgrade doubts mire Office XP.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... NOW THAT MICROSOFT has pushed Office XP out the door, the next question is, Will the productivity suite make it through many enterprise doors? The answer to that question may not hinge on Office's new features and functionality but rather...

Sun redraws Java blueprint.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... IN THE LATEST move in its competition with IBM and Microsoft, Sun this week at its JavaOne developer conference will leave no room for doubt: The Web services race is on and Sun is in the running. As next-generation software development...

Java's head chief serves up a taste of the future.(Technology Information)(Interview)
June 4, 2001... AS THE GUIDING light behind the development of Java, James Gosling has become an industry icon. Today Gosling is exploring ways to make application development tools significantly smarter. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael...

SAS teams with Compaq, EDS on e-tailer service.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... SAS last week announced a partnership with Compaq and Electronic Data Systems to deliver a service that allows online retailers to analyze their customer data effectively. The service, IntelliVisor for Retail, is designed for retailers that...

Loudcloud, cacheflow enhance performance.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Loudcloud is partnering with CacheFlow to offer corporations a caching option designed to improve the delivery of content from Web sites. Loudcloud calls it the Caching Cloud service. Companies that choose the managed service offering will...

Vendors forge alliance to fortify Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... IBM, NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu have announced plans to strengthen the Linux operating system. The four companies will jointly commit several hundred researchers to the project, which will focus on enhancing the reliability of Linux to make it...

Moving fast to mobile devices.(breakup of Lernout and Hauspie; speech technology mobile solutions)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... DESPITE THE RECENT disintegration of premier speech technology company, Lernout & Hauspie (L&H), the technology that it helped pioneer continues to move forward off the desktop PC -- which put L&H on the map -- and onto mobile devices. The...

Viable Java alternative - ColdFusion Server 5.0 delivers quick Web development, easy administration, and improved performance.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... MAKING PRUDENT Internet investments is always a top priority for CTOs. But even more important is controlling Web-application development and deployment costs. An obvious way to keep Web-development expenses in check is to ensure top...

Trip up Web taggers - Tripwire for Web Pages meets the graffiti challenge, preventing customers from seeing defaced pages.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... WEB SITE intrusion takes many forms, but site vandalism is among the more damaging outside influences. Organizations from Toyota to the New York Yankees have all had their Web sites victimized by vandals whose typical modus operandi is to deny...

Middleware that beats the budget - Open-source Java and J2EE application servers give enterprise-class commercial products a run for their money.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... JAVA APPLICATION SERVERS provide a reliable, scalable, and secure platform for Web applications ranging from dynamic, database-driven Web sites and corporate intranets and portals to e-commerce transaction systems. Although leading commercial...

The crown prince of EAI - Although the ascendancy of Java 2 Enterprise Edition is assured, its reign may be cut short by the arrival of usurping Web services.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... CUSTOM APPLICATIONS once combined multiple data sources at the user's desk, a model that proved untenable as data sets grew larger and more fragmented. Today, corporate developers connect users with information by linking their applications at...

Align business minds - MindAlign 4.0 raises the IM bar by boosting knowledge sharing for better decision making.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... IN MANY companies, IM (instant messaging) tools are joining e-mail applications as a common medium for delivering real-time information to business partners and colleagues. Both types of collaboration tools are great for disseminating...

WP 2002: Sweeter suite? Corel releases its latest office suite to appease customers and woo Microsoft Office users.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 4, 2001... PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY are the name of the game, and nothing affects companywide efficiency like an office suite. In choosing a comprehensive office suite, IT and business managers look for something to give their companies a competitive...

ISPs' trademark liability - The Communications Decency Act doesn't protect against claims of trademark infringement.(Gucci America's case against Mindspring)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 4, 2001... DO YOU KNOW the difference between defamation and trademark infringement? ISPs and those who host Web sites had better. ISPs receive immunity from defamation and other tort claims committed on hosted sites through the federal Communications...

Learning curve - Uncertainty surrounding standards and rising costs can make choosing a learning management system a difficult lesson.(Technology Information)
June 4, 2001... THESE ARE CONFUSING TIMES for IT managers who wish to implement e- learning and an LMS (learning management system), the server-based software that controls e-learning needs and uses. LMS standards are in a state of flux, vendors may face a...

Anatomy of a learning management system.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... An LMS (learning management system) is built like most n-tier Web applications: Presentation occurs on a Web browser while the middle- tier application server and back-end database server power the course materials, collaborative tools, and...

Powering a peacock - As CTO at NBC, she searches for technology solutions that fit the media giant's needs.(Company Operations)
June 11, 2001... WHEN NBC NEEDS to get a breaking news story out to its affiliates, that famous triad of tones now chimes through the Web on desktops at more than 200 stations in the United States. The person who designed that mission-critical messaging system...

Portal power - CTOs employ customized portals for converging corporate tools.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 11, 2001... CTOS CAN DIG into a deep chest of software and tools to manage every element of the corporate enterprise. But corralling the enterprise's dispersed systems and knowledge assets into a single, easily accessible source is a challenge that...

Optical networks hit the suburbs - To some, suburban networks are a sound business strategy.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... WITH THE ECONOMIC downturn forcing companies to reduce expenses, some are fleeing their big-city offices in favor of cheaper real estate in suburban areas. But some are finding that fiber service is scarce in the suburbs. To address this...

Realty anticipates paperless deals - Using the Web, real estate and title companies keep all parties up to date on closing progress.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 11, 2001... CLOSING A REAL ESTATE deal can be about as much fun as a root canal. Thankfully for buyers and sellers, the Internet is now helping to take some of the pain out of the sometimes excruciating closing process. The document-based real estate...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Next-generation portals - With growing need for on-demand information, forthcoming portal solutions are an energizing proposition.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... WE'VE ALL BEEN there, searching for that last supporting detail before the board meeting or hunting down a project status minutes before the client meeting. Frustrated, you sift through heaps of irrelevant data. Intranets have done a world...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Outsourcing prenuptial - Before you commit to happily outsourcing ever after, negotiate for the possibility that one day you may need to re-insource.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: There will be no cuts in personnel after the merger is completed. TRANSLATION: Please don't leave until we decide who we want to lay off. -- I think we can guess why this week's contributor chose to remain anonymous....

SECURITY ADVISER: Echelon finds a foe - EU committee calls for e-mail crypto tools in face of threats from Anglo-American and other eavesdroppers.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... A WHILE BACK, I talked about encryption and the reasons why people don't use it. (See www.infoworld.com/printlinks.) The funny thing is, a government report surfaced recently that urges businesses and citizens to start implementing...

THE OPEN SOURCE: One size fits most - When it comes to scripts, GUI applications, or the Web, Python does just about everything you can imagine.(Technology Tutorial)
June 11, 2001... THIS WEEK I finally make good on my promise to take a closer look at Python for building Web applications. Python is a Javalike language in some of the most important respects. It is byte-compiled and therefore platform-neutral. It sports...

WINDOW MANAGER: Windows XP and DdoS - Security expert Steve Gibson charges that Windows XP will turn distributed denial of service attacks into child's play.(Product Information)
June 11, 2001... IF YOU THINK the Internet is wild now, security pro Steve Gibson says it's nothing compared to the problems that will ensue if Windows XP is released in its current form. Gibson knows whereof he speaks. He's the president of Gibson...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 11, 2001... Job-hunting blues AH YES, THE Seattle job-hunting blues as described by John Kador in his article, "Jobless in Seattle" (see May 28, page 62). I know them well. I spent about six months trying to find a job in the environmental field in...

MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: Offshore outsourcing - Many IT execs look abroad for programming talent. What does that say about skills of U.S. workers?(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... VIVEK WADHWA hires very few programmers -- at least from the United States. Wadhwa is the CEO of Relativity Technologies, a software and systems developer in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and one of the increasing number of IT executives...

WIRELESS WORLD: Cell phone troubles - A bill in Congress would require the FCC to monitor and report on cell service that fails to connect.(Government Activity)
June 11, 2001... LET'S STIR UP some trouble this week. On April 4 Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, D-N.Y., submitted a bill to the House of Representatives that would require the Federal Communications Commission to monitor the quality of service from wireless...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: JavaOne highlight is Java lite.(Column)
June 11, 2001... MY HEAD HURTS. No, I haven't been drowning my sorrows since Randi left me. I've moved on, bought a Harley (I'm told they're great for meeting women), and hit the tech trail with a passion. My first stop last week was the annual pilgrimage...

NET PROPHET: Benefits of a slowdown - With the dot-com pressure off, brick-and-mortars can now develop Internet strategies for the long haul.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... THE MARKET IS not the only entity that has changed its attitude toward dot-coms. The guys in suits in the boardrooms of brick-and-mortar companies have also switched their stance. A couple of years ago during the dot-com boom, they put...

THE GRIPE LINE: Apple padlocks UI decor - Apple says it supports open source, but the stink concerning the MacTheme project proves the jawboning to be puffery.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... APPLE HAS TALKED a lot about how Mac OS X demonstrates the company's belief in the open-source business model, but its treatment of a group of free-software developers suggests that the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker actually wants to...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: Get rid of IT burnout - Effective managers have strategies for relieving burnout that go far beyond incorporating fun into the business.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 11, 2001... MANY INDUSTRY publications, including InfoWorld, have reported on the widespread burnout that many IS professionals feel. Burnout is as much a part of IT as long hours in the office, on-call responsibilities, the endless string of deadlines,...

ABOVE THE NOISE: The Baby Bell game of monopoly - The so-called Tauzin bill could give the Baby Bells more dominance than they already have.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... GIVEN THE CURRENT state of the economy and emerging technology trends, the once and future kings of the Internet would appear to be local exchange carriers, otherwise known as the local Baby Bell monopolies. Whether this is a good or bad thing...

FOR THE RECORD: Trading exchanges may outlast their critics.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
June 11, 2001... A year and a half after the hype about public trading exchanges reached a fever pitch, it's now fashionable to say that exchanges -- and the business-to-business market overall -- are dead. Many investors in neutral e-marketplaces would...

The Bug Report.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet CISCO says that a bug in its Content Service Switch (CSS) 11000 series may keep the switch from following the correct restrictions for accessing certain Web management URLs. This means that some users who...

Storage rivals to cooperate.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... AN AMBITIOUS EFFORT from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) will help eliminate the blame game when troubleshooting mixed- vendor SANs (storage area networks). The effort, called the Supported Solutions Forum, requires...

Oracle, Sun dial e911 apps.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... ORACLE AND OTHER key vendors are pushing forward on technology designed to spur location-based services, despite evidence that a pivotal part of this wireless movement has slowed down. That key component is the federal government's enhanced...

SuperComm sees optical wave.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... HEADING A LIST of optical services announcements at the SuperComm 2001 conference last week, IBM and Nortel Networks unveiled a partnership to deliver IBM's eBusiness line of products via Nortel's optical networking gear. Called Network...

Covad taps new CEO.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Struggling DSL provider Covad last week put in place a new president and CEO. Covad hired Charles E. Hoffman for the top post after operating for months under the hands-on direction of Chairman Chuck McMinn and Interim CEO Frank Marshall. Covad...

AT&T sues Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the software maker of selling products that include patented digital speech technology developed by AT&T. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges...

BEA, Bowstreet ink deal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Bowstreet and BEA Systems last week agreed to work together to help customers more rapidly assemble and deliver e-business systems. BEA's Weblogic Commerce Server and Portal Framework will be combined with Bowstreet's Business Web Factory...

HP eyes OpenView integration.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... HEWLETT-PACKARD, at its OpenView 2001 conference this week in New Orleans is expected to unveil 11management products aimed at integrated services management and ebusiness. But not all industry observers are convinced that large, integrated...

Sun preaches to the converted.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... SUN ANNOUNCED more pieces of its Web services initiative last week at its JavaOne Developers Conference in San Francisco, but much of the buzz came from third parties, making it clear that Sun will be counting on them to spread the Java gospel....

Exchanges serve and survive.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... AS THE BLOODBATH among business-to-business public exchanges continues, several online marketplaces are bucking the odds, surviving, and even prospering by offering value-added services and catering to suppliers rather than squeezing them on...

SAP unleashes b-to-b plan - At Sapphire 2001, ERP giant will push portals, integration, collaboration.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... PORTALS WILL BE central to SAP's product strategy at its Sapphire 2001 conference this week in Orlando, Fla., where the software giant will strive to portray itself as the vendor of choice for business-to- business commerce, resource planning,...

Borland chases ASP vision - Application development hosting targeted regardless of user concerns.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... TOWARD THE END of next month, Borland will preview a set of hosted application development services to be generally available in the fall, company officials said. The services build on Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland's initiative that...

Netzero, Juno plan ISP merger.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... NetZero and Juno Online Services last Thursday announced plans to merge, creating what they said would be the second-largest ISP in the United States after America Online. The combined company would have more than 7 million active users, based...

PC market loses ground.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... The U.S. PC market lost ground for the first time ever in 2001, according to a report by IDC. The report predicted a 6.3 percent decline in U.S. PC shipments this year, dramatically lowering IDC's forecast from the previously expected growth...

Palm takes a Bluetooth baby step forward.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Palm expanded wireless support for its products last week, detailing a new Bluetooth low-power radio communication card that allows newer models of the company's handhelds to communicate with other Bluetooth- enabled devices. The secure digital...

WAP is king, but Bluetooth, the 802.11a standard, WASPs, and voice portals fill out the top picks for the savvy road warrior.(Technology Information)
June 11, 2001... I HAD TO THINK hard about the area I cover for the InfoWorld Test Center -- wireless and mobile computing and speech-recognition technology -- to start my list. My picks share one trait: They enable employees to stay more connected to the...

For an enterprise developer's toolbox, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Lutris Technologies hit the mark.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 11, 2001... THE FIELD of application development is so full of fine products, picking five personal favorites proved to be a real chore. Even settling on a pet IDE (integrated development environment) was hard. Having been a fan of IBM's VisualAge for Java...

Taming the wireless LAN - Sniffer Wireless 4.6 keeps 802.11b LANs in check and rogue network users at bay.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 11, 2001... WIRELESS LANS ARE quickly becoming a viable alternative to traditional wired networks in the enterprise. The flexibility and cost-savings they provide are getting a second look from IT managers. One problem that companies face with wireless LAN...

From firewalls to optical switches, the latest batch of networking gear will enhance flexibility, security, and speed.(Apple Mac OS X, Linux 2.4 kernel and Novell NDS eDirectory plus optical switching and personal firewalls)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 11, 2001... ASKING ME to pick my favorite products or technologies is like taking me to a beer festival: I just can't stop at five. It's especially tough to recognize a single product because I know that I'm going to overlook others that are perfectly...