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SAP Thinks Private SAP has announced a new strategy focused on development and support of private exchanges through its SAPMarkets subsidiary. The German software company says it will provide software and integration services to help companies deploy private exchanges for their suppliers and partners. Separately, SAP and partner Commerce One recently rolled out software aimed […]

Timing in business is everything, but its not something you can plan on your calendar. Business confidence and confusion arent measured in days or months. Theyre measured in waves and in comparison to what came before and whats expected to happen at some unknown point in the future. In times of low consumer confidence, its […]

Someday the technology sector will prosper again, and by the time that happens, Response Networks Inc. hopes to have weeded out the pretenders in the hosted applications niche. With its Pulsar xSP software debuting this summer, said Ivan Shefrin, co-founder of the North Andover, Mass., company, Response will have software to sell to application infrastructure […]

To secure your Windows 2000 boxes, were strong proponents of turning off the services that arent absolutely necessary for normal operation. But have you ever noticed how turning off one service breaks something else? Thats because some Windows services are dependent upon others. So heres a map of the services on a standalone machine running […]

With dozens of horizontal and vertical initiatives sprouting from XML, the RosettaNet consortium is trying to help developers navigate through the tangle of overlapping and sometimes competing efforts. Officials with RosettaNet, a non-profit group focused on Extensible Markup Language specifications for IT, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing industries, launched an effort last week to bring […]

As competition stiffens among application server vendors, SilverStream Software Inc. is looking to Web services that provide users with a way to leverage existing applications on any platform. The new strategy, announced last week, met with mixed reactions from users, who said it was a smart business move for SilverStream but questioned what will happen […]

Its a normal, insanely busy day in Fidelity Investments Internet Operations Center, and Jeff Crawford wants answers. Marching between the workstation pods where IT managers monitor Fidelitys Web infrastructure, Crawford shouts, “Whats happening with 401(k) inquiries? How fast is research loading? Are trades up or down?” Until recently, IT managers monitoring Fidelitys popular business-to-consumer sites […]

Five rules for selling in a down market: > Booking an order isnt everything. Now the pressure is on to prospect for the right kinds of business. > Sell solutions that offer a financial payback in 12 months or less. Customers wont wait two or three years anymore to see a return on their IT […]

His “son” might have been a bit unwieldy, but it helped to change the world. These days, Charles Goldfarb is just as happy boasting about his grandchild. Were not talking offspring in the human sense here. Goldfarb, the former IBM lawyer who invented Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), is touting the virtues of XML, the […]

¡Ay, caramba! Former high-flyer Ariba may need to add a few new Spanish phrases to its vocabulary. Once seen as the brightest star in the business-to-business constellation, Ariba is now locked in a battle for survival. The company announced a $1.84 billion quarterly loss last week, laid off 700 employees, wrote off growth in the […]

Flag Raised DSL provider Covad Communications is in danger of having its shares delisted from Nasdaq because it is late in making its annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Covad says it expects to file on May 7 but said it was delayed by accounting complexities “caused by the rapid growth in […]

Cellular or touch-tone A new appliance from DPD International Inc. uses speech synthesis technology to enable users to access their corporate e-mail from a cellular or touch-tone phone. Multiple functions MailSpeech, unveiled this month, works similarly to a voice mail system. Users dial a phone number and enter their log-in information, and the system reads […]