Monthly Archives: September 2001
Virtual Router For Real Private Networks
Virtual private networks are touted as the killer app for the enterprise this year, but how about using IP-based networks to build real private...
Startup Death Spiral
The chances of a lucky New Englander winning the recent $295 million Powerball lottery were about 1 in 80 million, or so say lottery...
HP To Buy Compaq For $25 Billion
Hewlett-Packard has announced it will buy Compaq Computer in an all-stock transaction valued at $25 billion.If regulators approve the deal, the new entity will...
Old Enterprise Dogs Learn New MSP Tricks – 2
Managed service providers focused on the enterprise from the start are feeling confident as they watch their cohorts run through a quick and painful...
Back-To-School IT Lessons
Now that were in September, its "officially" back-to-school time, though it seems like weve been gearing up for it for months. The July-August advertising...
IT Staff: Labor for Tomorrow
Economic downturns and even recessions have their virtues. They give businesses the chance to ask what value they are delivering to customers and what...
IT Paper Chase
Is your IT certificate worth the paper its printed on?It depends on whom you ask. James Kotwicki, for one, thinks his prove that hes...
C. Michael Armstrong
After his AT&T fiasco, to where can CEO Mike Armstrong possibly fail upward? Perhaps the U.S. Congress, where wavering and flip-flopping are prerequisites for...
Fast Breaks Newsfront: September 3, 2001
Amazon Wades InAmazon.com is heading into murky retail waters, announcing late last week that it will start selling PCs online. The announcement came the...
ICANN
To best understand how bumbling bureaucracies are born, you need look no farther than the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, that band...