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Steve Mills runs IBMs $12 billion software business, which, for the most part, has weathered the technology downturn pretty well—so far. IBMs DB2 database and WebSphere application server have been strong performers this year, but the companys Tivoli Systems Inc. systems management business has fallen off a cliff. But Mills knows that from CIOs on […]

Free Delivery — Sort Of Amazon.com and Circuit City Stores are gearing up for the holiday shopping season with a partnership that will put the electronic retailers products on Amazons Web site. Amazon will begin selling the Circuit City products in November, but until next year, customers will still have to go to their local […]

Bharath Dorairaja doesnt especially like New Jersey. In October 2000, Bharath moved from Bangalore, India, to Parsipanny, N.J., where he established the U.S. business development office of VisionCompass, an enterprise software subsidiary of Bangalores Satyam Computer Services. But Bharath wants to go back to India someday, and soon. “Im just more comfortable in India,” he […]

Bangalore, India — drive 25 kilometers outside this citys center — past the old automobile parts factories and cement plants — and you will come to an area called Whitefield. Go on past the brand-new, 200-seat, technical support call center Dell Computer opened this summer, and past General Electrics 1-year-old, $40 million R&D facility. Eventually, […]

Sun Cobalt has slipped out of favor with some facilities-based hosters because it missed a critical step in the evolution of its server appliances — a painful reversal of fortune for the homegrown company. Sun Microsystems paid $2 billion for Cobalt Networks last September. Not long after that, star customers, such as Rackspace Managed Hosting, […]

Senior Director of E-Commerce, Yellow Freight System, a division of Yellow Corp. Age: 46 Degree: Bachelors degree in business administration, Ottawa University Car: 2001 Dodge Durango Stress reliever: Riding his high- performance Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle on Kansas flat, straight roads Dan Commiato has been with Yellow Freight System — one of the countrys biggest trucking […]

If theres one valuable lesson Alaska Airlines Jim Quentin has learned, its this: Be careful when you reach out to consumers with cutting-edge technology; the experiment may soar in directions you never expected. The airline, one of the first to sell tickets online and to promote Web-based check-in, in January made a move to improve […]

MFN Future Brightens Metromedia Fiber Network, which had until Aug. 15 to line up a new round of financing, has hammered out a conditional agreement with lenders, including Citigroup, for $150 million. The metro carrier now has about $330 million in funding commitments. Analysts say they expect MFN to next announce a restructuring that will […]

Level 3 Communications is scooping up enormous amounts of undersea fiber capacity for a fraction of what it cost to build, in a deal that should help control trans-Atlantic bandwidth prices. “Its like getting a free car,” said Cary Robinson, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffrays senior research analyst for communication services. Level 3 is acquiring undersea […]

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