Monthly Archives: July 2001
Code Red Worm Exposes Security Flaws
In the wake of the massive infection of Web servers by the Code Red worm, systems administrators and security experts are doing a lot...
What Matters in E-Commerce
Part 2. Last week, I tried to explain why I think so many online businesses have been failing: I attributed the failures to a...
Government Could Teach BSA a Lesson
Heres a suggestion. In an economic period when layoffs mount with ever-increasing frequency and forecasts of recovery stretch out every day, you probably dont...
Microsofts Role in App Server History
Last week, I wrote about the continued consolidation of the application server market as if there were any players left to consolidate.As those players...
Pinocchios the Only One to Get Support
In the two previous columns in this ethics in it series, I asked readers to send me the ethical dilemmas with which they have...
Gates Plays Games With Rivals, Java
Ever wonder what bill gates does in his spare time?The Kitty found out it might all be fun and games. At a recent Microsoft...
Truce or Dare
If youre a small or medium-size company, theres a good chance youve heard from the Business Software Alliance about getting your software compliant with...
J.D. Edwards Launches B2B Sales App
Playing catch-up to rival enterprise resource planning vendor PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co. announced last week the general availability of its OneWorld Advanced...
Targeting Small Enterprises
Artisoft Inc. touts its open-standard approach as friendly to small and midsize companies.The Cambridge, Mass., company recently upgraded its software PBX products to include...
Firms Integrate Solutions
In one more step toward Clarus Corp.s plan to further its mass adoption channel strategy through the Microsoft Corp. .Net platform, the Atlanta-based company...