eWEEK EDITORS

The city of Albuquerque, N.M., is the first in the nation to wire its sewers with fiber through a partnership with CityNet Telecommunications, bringing online 21 high-rise buildings with 1,000 business tenants. Omaha City, Ind., and Vienna, Austria, are among eight other cities slated to get fiber in their sewer pipes soon through the services […]

Novell has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that Microsoft lied about Novells latest network operating system, NetWare 6. The suit, filed on Monday, Oct. 1, in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, asks for unspecified monetary damages, and also seeks an injunction to force Microsoft to stop “the false and misleading statements by […]

Sun Microsystems makes available to developers today the first version of Solaris 9. It is an early access version “still short on performance and without all the features planned for it,” said Bill Moffitt, product line manager for Solaris. Nevertheless, this version contains enough of the planned changes to allow developers and customers to begin […]

Compaq Computer said it lost about $700 million in business in September because of the terrorist attacks against the U.S., causing the already beleaguered computer maker to warn that it will post third-quarter revenue as much as $1 billion below previous expectations. On Monday, Oct. 1, Houston-based Compaq said it expects revenue for the third […]

It may not have the makings of a Tom Clancy thriller, but the legal battle between Amazon.com and a key former employee with plans to defect to eBay adds another plot twist to the rivalry between two of the biggest competitors in online retailing. Amazon last month filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court […]

Equinix, a pioneering operator of Internet business exchanges, will announce layoffs – but no data center closures – later on this month. Several employees received unexpected pink slips last week, the first wave of layoffs in the data center operators history. Equinix differentiates its facilities and services from other carrier-neutral facilities by pursuing the business […]

Sales of semiconductors worldwide in August fell 42 percent from a year ago, and while the numbers for September may be even bleaker, an industry group is predicting that sales will rebound before the end 2002. Overall, international sales totaled $10.49 billion in August, down from $18.08 billion a year ago, resulting in a decline […]

High-end databases and high-end storage needs tend to be bought at the same time, and storage leader EMC Corp. is taking advantage of that. On Monday, the Hopkinton, Mass., company announced two new versions of its ControlCenter Database Tuner software. One version is for using EMCs high-end Symmetrix product with IBMs DB2; the other is […]

COMMENTARY–Why to do many first-time CRM implementations fail to meet business objectives? Consider that the Gartner Group predicted last month that 50 percent of all CRM implementations between now and 2006 will be judged failures. And that may be understating the case. Mark Meyer, director of CRM at BMC Software, says the failure rate figure […]

MySQL AB is planning major changes to its namesake open-source database technology by the end of the year. According to CEO Mårten Mickos, the company will launch its code in Version 4.0 this month and upgrade it to Version 4.1 in December. New with 4.0 is support for the Unicode character set, the Secure Sockets […]