eWEEK EDITORS

The ranks of Ingres swelled last week with the hiring of two former Veritas Software executives to help run the new stand-alone open-source database company. Mike Coney has been named Ingres executive vice president of worldwide sales and support. Most recently, Coney served as senior vice president of Americas sales at Veritas. He has held […]

By now, “the Internet Services Disruption” missive from Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie has been dissected ad infinitum. But we have yet to see Softies or Soft watchers attempt to put any real meat on Ozzies services bones. Ozzie itemized several general categories of services into which he believes Microsoft should delve in the […]

Theres nothing like the comfort of a steady, one-on-one relationship between a company and its VAR. But given the diversity of problems in the small- and midsize-business space, many companies are quickly learning that it sometimes takes multiple partners to get the job done. “A lot of big vendors have cracked the code on how […]

With 20-plus years of reselling enterprise software under his belt, Allen Beck knows a thing or two about the ups and downs of channel relationships. According to Beck, all too often vendor partners will lend some marketing muscle, pass on a few sales leads and maybe even sponsor training, but once the honeymoon ends, the […]

Im sure you will get a lot of letters complaining that you wasted too much space “celebrating” Windows 20th anniversary in the Nov. 14 issue. I, for one, think it was a great issue. Its one that I will save for, if nothing else, its historical value. I go back to Windows 1.1 running on […]

When Microsoft Corp. released its first Windows Vista Community Technology Preview build this fall, company officials said they did so in the name of transparency. But testers say Microsoft is being anything but transparent about the November CTP build of the next version of Windows, which some company watchers are speculating will go to a […]

Fluke Finds More Wireless Nets Last month, Fluke Networks finally added wireless LAN support to the EtherScope Network Assistant via a new software load as well as an 802.11a/b/g-compliant client adapter that fits into the devices PCMCIA slot. I was happy to see that Fluke has streamlined the EtherScopes upgrade process. I can now download […]

Since Mike Rhodin succeeded Ambuj Goyal as general manager of IBMs Workplace, Collaboration and Portal software this summer, he has helped steer the Armonk, N.Y., companys Lotus Software division to its third consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth. But despite these encouraging results, industry researchers continue to churn out figures showing that Lotus is losing […]

Microsoft is on the hunt for a new chief for its Microsoft Business Solutions unit. Doug Burgum, senior vice president for the Business Solutions Group—who has led MBS for the past five years, ever since Microsoft acquired Burgums Great Plains Software— is remaining with the company. But Burgum will move into a new role, serving […]

By now, “The Internet Services Disruption” missive from Microsoft Chief Technology Office Ray Ozzie has been dissected ad infinitum. But we have yet to see Softies or Soft watchers attempt to put any real meat on Ozzies services bones. Ozzie itemized several general categories of services into which he believes Microsoft should delve in the […]

Jim Rapoza has it all wrong in his Oct. 24 Tech Directions column, “PCs Get Touchy-Feely,” when he says that tablet PCs (especially those in slate form factor) are only marketable in certain vertical areas. As a full-time writer and editor, I use my slate all the time. Mitch Tulloch

I am a 30-year veteran in the PC field. I dont see the Microsoft GUI hegemony as unfortunate, as Peter Coffee suggests in his Nov. 14 Epicenters column (“One GUI to Rule Them All”). The consistency of the user interface between system vendors simplified training requirements. There is a de facto vetting mechanism for prospective […]