Monthly Archives: May 2001
What Linuxs TPC Victory Doesnt Show
Ah. Some Linux advocates must smell the sweetness of victory after the operating system came out on top in a recent TPC benchmark. That...
Linuxs Losing Desktop War
The good-news, bad-news story we published last week by Peter Galli was bound to ruffle a few feathers in the open-source community. Regardless of...
Opera 5.0 Fills Viewing Void
Opera 5.0 for Linux has arrived, complete with a banner-ads-bearing free version whose forced viewing will at long last allow Linux users to ease...
Content Distribution Meets E-Learning
Vendors including Cisco Systems and CacheFlow are seizing on corporate interest in content distribution to use the new caching technology for applications such as...
Ingram Does Its Homework
When Ingram Micro decided to create a new SMB program, the distributor asked its reseller customers what they wanted. And then they asked them...
Whats the Holdup?
It sounds like a win-win scenario.Product vendors roll out scores of programs and promotions encouraging resellers and integrators to pursue the small and midsize...
Caught Between a Rock and Hard Place
What do you do when you see a glaring gap between the privacy policy posted on your companys Web site and the companys actual...
Hopscotching From Acer Site Sale to AT&T
In another sign of the slowing economy, one that has been even harder for second- and third-tier PC makers than for the top-tier ones,...
Turbulent Times Warrant A Cautionary Tale
Kevin Wiggen and Barry Lind sat out the dot-com boom, but they sure look smart now. While colleagues and even competitors were raising hundreds...
Safeharbor Sails Into Data Warehousing
Offerings expanded SafeHarbor Technology Corp. has expanded its hosted offerings from Web-based customer service into data warehousing with the launch of its Data Deck...