Monthly Archives: February 2001
Oh, When the Saints Go Logging On
God may be eternal, but timing is everything.The Vatican is just about to name a patron saint for the Internet. This is no great...
Were Finally Getting Back to the Business of Business
Once again, I am closeted in a fancy hotel at a conference for startups and venture capitalists. This time, however, I am sort of...
You Want to Keep Employees? Train Them
Given a choice, which would you choose: more money or more training? While that is an easy answer for me as I realized long...
VitalSoft Hones Reporting Wares
Lucent Technologies Inc.s VitalSoft unit last week unveiled major changes to two of its management software offerings, introducing VitalSuite Enterprise 8.0 and MyVitalAgent performance...
Fast Facts Section B: February 19, 2001
Sporting TroublesQuokka Sports last week announced plans to cut 217 employees, or 59 percent of its work force. The company, which ran NBCs official...
If You Thought Training Was Pricey …
If youre planning your companys technology spending budget for this year, you might be reaching for the antacids right about now. With bad economic...
Beware: Its a Retail Jungle Out There
Application service providers didnt feel a lot of love last week. No flowers. No chocolate. In fact, one research firm released a forecast predicting...
eFiles: February 19, 2001
More than a billion servedMore than 1 billion people will be accessing the Internet by 2005, according to a recently released report from eTForecasts,...
E-business Eats Up Culture
Six months ago, officials at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. decided to crack the shell of an amorphous nut called corporate culture. Employees were...
ASPs Woes Mirror Those of the Industry
Fiscal and executive personnel problems taking place at a small ASP provider that most enterprise users have never heard of are sending ripples through...