eWEEK EDITORS

With school back in session, its time for Interactive Weeks fifth annual ISP Customer Satisfaction Survey. Each year, we ask our readers to grade their business ISPs to determine which should be added to the honor roll, and which should stay after school for extracurricular help. This years class valedictorian for overall customer satisfaction is […]

The Problem A 10-person psychiatric practice needs to make its medical records HIPAA compliant by April 2003, according to new government mandates (see www.hipaacomply.com). The company needs a HIPAA-compliant server that stores medical records and can synchronize with a local hospitals system. Moreover, doctors must be able to access the server from wireless handheld computers […]

The South Carolina legislature recently modified an anti-pedophilia state law to require IT people discovering child pornography on a system to report the computers user to authorities. Sounds reasonable, right? After all, its pretty hard for a rational person to argue in favor of protecting those who buy or traffic in kiddie porn. But theres […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]