Monthly Archives: October 2005
Dell Makes Services Inroads
When Dell launched its foray into services a few years ago, it did so in typical Dell fashion: It found a market thats mature...
Innovation Comes Full Circle
I was staying in Palo Alto and caught the early-morning commuter rail train to San Francisco, envisioning a time when I could start my...
Regional Bells Face Antitrust Lawsuit
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 failed to spur robust competition in traditional local telephony, but just as Congress prepares to rewrite it, a federal...
The FCCs Master Plan: World Domination?
After expressing frustration in past columns about some damaging and idiotic law or policy, Ive sometimes stated that things would be a lot different...
Mercury Integrates Change Tool
Mercury Interactive Corp. plans to debut this week a broad set of integrated application testing, change and performance management software that straddles the development...
Magellan Eases Network Management
As many enterprises rediscover the benefit of having someone else monitor and manage their networks, others are eager to bring those duties in-house. For...
New Servers Punch Up the Power
Small and midsize businesses will see their server choices grow in the next few weeks as OEMs begin rolling out more powerful systems targeted...
ClearCube Enlists Help of Partners
PC blade pioneer ClearCube Technology Inc. is turning to partners to help extend the reach of its products.The Austin, Texas, company last week unveiled...
Network Physics Relieves WAN Performance Woes
Network Physics Inc., originally a WAN optimization/application acceleration provider, spent so much time proving to customers that its products worked that it discovered a...
Sun, Google Snuggle Up
The true value of the new alliance between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Google Inc. lies not in the fairly innocuous mutual distribution deal the...