Monthly Archives: February 2001
You Want Fries With That?
Business is booming for database vendors, but they are not sitting pretty. Theyre rolling into areas ranging from application servers and mobile/wireless to new...
Sign of the Times
Reading the fine print on billboards sounds like a ridiculous idea as drivers go whizzing by at high speed, but Oracle may have hit...
Watching the Bottom Line
Im not a number cruncher. Yet, with each financial reporting season, I find myself spending hours pouring over earnings reports, reading between the numbers...
A Sign of the (Litigious) Times
You cant own knowledge, but you can patent software. Tens of thousands of software patents are issued every year, and patents—unlike copyrights—cant be evaded...
Supply Chain Gets New Link
It all comes down to making the pieces work together, and thats exactly why integrators are looking at the planned merger of Ariba Inc....
Sanjay Parthasarathy
Sanjay Parthasarathy has the sales job of the decade: convince Microsoft developers, partners and key customers to buy into the software makers ambitious .Net...
Paid Programming
Federal Express didnt pay Tom Hanks to deliver its packages, wear its uniform or shoot scenes in its offices for his hit movie Cast...
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper is a man on a mission. And though the fate of mankind may not hang in the balance, his success could lead...
Hal Krisbergh
Hal Krisbergh doesnt worry much about the future of interactive TV. For the founder of ITV pioneer WorldGate, the future is now.Krisbergh was so...
PeopleStreets LiveCard in Beta
Peoplestreet inc. has launched a beta of its LiveCard online service, a contact management tool that allows users to create and exchange self-updating electronic...