Monthly Archives: January 2001
Netpliance Awaits Savior
The clock is running out for Netpliance, a pioneering Internet appliance start-up that was unable to sustain its original business model.The companys stock has...
Bandwidth Patrol
Its about bandwidth, stupid! Who has it, who controls it, who shapes it, who can gobble it up first.No matter where you stand on...
Look Where the Needles Pointing
This countrys mature telecommunications infrastructure has vendors looking abroad for VoIP opportunities. In terms of infrastructure equipment and customer demand, the relatively immature communications...
Pumping Data
With an end-to-end ethernet network, all the world becomes your local area network. Off the desktop, through the router, onto the fiber loop, through...
Prickly Business
By many accounts, 2001 will be a watershed year for the deployment of voice services over IP networks. Many of the key technical pieces...
Skinny HP Server Outstores Its Competitors
Hewlett-Packard Co.s latest ultraslim server, the NetServer LP1000r, packs Intel Corp. 1GHz Pentium III processors into a 1.75-inch form factor along with a large...
Use the Old Formula
The folks at Borland finally realized that when you have a good thing, you dont change it. When Borland fell on hard times during...
Low Volume Slows E-payment
E-marketplaces are cutting deals with electronic bill presentment and payment vendors, rather than wait for exchange vendors such as Ariba and Commerce One to...
Tougher to Stay on the Shelf
Its getting increasingly difficult for second- and third-tier component vendors to stay alive. Both Tech Data and Ingram Micro, the only healthy mass distributors,...
Readers Come to the Rescue
First, let me say thanks to the hundreds of e-mailers who offered very constructive advice following my column about the difficulties of running the...