Monthly Archives: August 2001
Compaq, CDW Team Up To Offer Services
In Compaq Computers continued push to make services a bigger part of its future, the Houston company today, Aug. 20, will announce a partnership...
Survival Course
Theres no doubt about it. Once the darlings of investors and New Economy gurus, business-to-business e-marketplaces have fallen on hard times. Analysts expect their...
Trying to Keep the Door Open
The trickle of closings among management service providers is poised to become a torrent in the coming months as consolidation among MSPs accelerates. But...
CRM as a Service Comes of Age
Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution was getting nowhere in its search for customer relationship management software. "The investment dollars required for Siebel or...
Carriers Join the Customer Portal War
A portal war is brewing. Carriers that want to sell managed and hosting services to business customers buying such mundane connectivity as frame relay...
Til the Cows Come Home
The most aggressive competitors large incumbent telephone companies face today are often small incumbent telephone companies, disguised as competitive local exchange carriers.Across the U.S.,...
Apples Cone Of Silence
Apple Computers recent out-of-court settlement with a former employee who leaked details of its forthcoming hardware to the Web started me thinking again about...
Stepping Out in a Web Venue
After nearly two years, some decent efforts are finally emerging in the Web database space. In particular, Caspios Caspio Bridge (www.caspio.com) Web-based database stands...
Oracle Widens Web Reach
The 9i version of Oracle Corp.s JDeveloper application takes aim at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., expanding the software companys offerings in Java...
Choice of JVM Isnt in Microsofts Plans
In a recent online column about microsofts decision not to ship its Java Virtual Machine with Windows XP, I wondered whether we might be...