Monthly Archives: May 2001
Can You Trust the Forecast?
Like a local weatherman, many high-tech CFOs are under fire for making bad financial forecasts. Predicting quarterly results isnt easy, but savvy consulting firms...
PSINet Backbone Most Desirable Asset
Now that all of PSINets assets are on the block, industry watchers are speculating about which company will buy the pieces of the fallen...
Dont Sign On The Dotted Line.
Windows XP hasnt even shipped yet, and Microsoft is already pushing you to adopt it. Im telling you now that you must resist these...
Doom and Bloom?
The economy is going to hell, dot-coms are dying, pink slips are flying, teen-age millionaires are again penniless, and Cisco Systems no longer looks...
Nothing to See Here
Tired of the press and their bad news about your company? You could do what MarchFirst recently did: block access to press releases. Visitors...
Help for the Small Suppliers
The e-business world is not always kind to suppliers and even less so to those in the small and midsize range. SPS Commerce is...
Qwest Communications
By now, Qwest Communications surely has digested its biggest meal—the June 2000 takeover of US West—but the lion is still hungry.It is champing at...
Hey, Thats Our Patent
To hear it from the smaller companys point of view, Microsoft has been playing with patented toys from InterTrust Technologies sandbox. And the latter...
XP Pros Take It to the Extreme
Doug Watt cant help it: he still catches himself feeling a bit jealous when fellow programmers tweak his code. But that doesnt stop Watt—a...
Keeping Tabs on Windows
For companies in need of a network monitor and packet analyzer for all versions of Windows, TamoSoft Inc. last week unveiled CommView 2.6.The Christchurch,...