eWEEK EDITORS

When Al Lucchese arrived several months ago as the new CEO of netNumina, a Cambridge, Mass.-based e-biz integrator, he carried with him two essential tools—a bucket of cold water to douse the companys insupportable sales projections, and a concrete methodology for future forecasts. “Like many companies in our space, netNumina was still experiencing a false […]

Post-Merger Possibilities So Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer want to merge? Well, while everyone else spent the week trying to figure out why the $25 billion stock swap makes sense, I spent my time pondering the more important question: What will they call the new company? Seems theyre going to take the easy route and keep […]

If the computer industrys biggest merger ever succeeds, the combined Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer will have an opportunity to position the company as a Linux leader and a powerhouse in e-business services such as Web hosting. Last week, the merger looked to many like a defensive maneuver to survive in the battered technology market. Like […]

Leaders of two of the worlds largest computer companies contend their proposed megamerger will produce a winning combination. But Hewlett-Packard Co.s Carly Fiorina and Compaq Computer Corp.s Michael Capellas have a lot of convincing to do before the deal goes through. Following HPs announcement last week to buy Compaq, there was no shortage of skeptics: […]

HP, Compaq: Now, For the Hard Part Take two struggling hardware companies, put them under one roof, and what do you get? The answer to that question will make or break Carly Fiorinas career at Hewlett-Packard. From Wall Street to Main Street, HPs decision to buy Compaq Computer for $21 billion in stock is drawing […]

The combined Hewlett-Packard-Compaq Computer must weed a tangled garden of operating systems and focus on fewer platforms to realize the $2.5 billion per year in savings it projects, experts said. That spells bright prospects for Linux, which will share the limelight in the new company with Windows. Compaq and HP “immediately jump into the top […]

Maxtor Corp. and Sony Corp. of America are attacking the midrange storage space with new network-attached and tape devices. At this weeks NetWorld+Interop trade show in Atlanta, Maxtor will unveil a 5.7-terabyte network-attached storage product, the MaxAttach 6000. The $80,000 product will be available by mid-October, said Eric Kelly, president of the Milpitas, Calif., companys […]

Suns Open Net Environment development road map is not helping IT get to where it needs to go, and the company needs to get serious in helping its customers develop next-generation Internet applications. Sun ONE, announced early this year, is, as Sun puts it, “a new generation of software for open, smart Web services.” Our […]

We took advantage of this years Interactive Week ISP customer survey to find out what types of applications businesses are outsourcing or plan to outsource, and to whom. We found that electronic commerce applications and data center applications such as Web hosting and data warehousing are the most commonly outsourced, and software vendors have a […]

An Internal Focus, for Now at Least Although vendors such as Microsoft Corp. are busy touting their Web services architectures, enterprises arent yet ready to use the technologies to connect with new external business partners, according to a survey released last month by Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., of New York. Only 16 percent of the […]

The precipitous slide of Exodus Communications Inc. from the pinnacle of the Web hosting market continued last week when Ellen Hancock resigned as chairman and CEO after three rocky years with the company. During Hancocks reign, which began in 1998, the Santa Clara, Calif., company went from being No. 1 in the market to seeing […]