Monthly Archives: March 2001
Salesforce.Com Ups the Hosting Ante
Already one of the more successful Web software hosts, Salesforce.com Inc. is broadening its customer relationship management applications with customer service and marketing automation...
Ravia Suria
Although the collapse of dot-com retailers helped send the economy into a spin, we all knew it had to happen.And Lehman Brothers Holdings bond...
Web Site Teaches a Privacy Lesson
eWeek labs this past year had up-close-and-personal experience with the data security, privacy and integrity issues that keep e-business managers up at night: the...
Economy, Fewer Upgrades Pinching Oracle
According to Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.s missed projections for its third-fiscal-quarter earnings were a result of the uncertain U.S. economy and not competitive pressures.Oracle...
Mother Natures Not to Be Trifled With
All that forecast snow that was supposed to bury the East Coast last week missed you and was dumped, instead, on my driveway and...
Creating Software Gems
Food gets eaten. Machines wear out. Software lasts forever. Unlike other commodities, which get consumed (directly or indirectly) in the course of producing other...
Boundaries of Ambiguity
A subtle transformation took place in the season premiere of The Sopranos last week. As if to help us rationalize our national obsession with...
Leave Us the Grunt Work
Times may be tough for some systems integrators, but outsourcers say they can help. By partnering with a specialist for tasks ranging from hosted...
Interactive Support on Way
K2 Digital Inc., of New York, has released a desktop customer support product called K2 Help. K2 Help can be used to create 360-degree...
Agent Adept at Updates
Those who need to support Compaqs line of laptops, desktops and servers will find ActiveUpdate 2.0 (Compaq SoftPaq 16266), the companys automated software update...