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Cahners In-Stat expects the CRM midmarket to total $490 million by the end of this year, with rapid growth starting in 2002. The firm also sees opportunities in the U.S. enterprise market decreasing around 2004, and the midmarket products making up more revenue for CRM vendors. This trend toward the saturation of the enterprise market […]

With wireless high-speed packet data networks just starting to come online in the U.S. and some trials and commercial launches around the globe, operators have already learned a lot about the technology. But what they havent figured out is how to price the services, and that missed focus may stymie the market at its start. […]

The Problem Dozens of solutions providers wanted to take another crack at last months problem. Here, once again, is a summary of the challenge: Acme Treats ice cream trucks have routes in several counties within one state. Each truck sells various types of ice cream to local residents. The company wants each truck to provide […]

The resale agreement between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. unveiled this month was the biggest and latest in a string of moves by companies trying to muscle into the high-end storage market, long dominated by EMC Corp. But for all those moves—which date back to last years resale agreement between Compaq Computer […]

Imagine if computing power were as easily accessible as electricity. Businesses essentially would be able to tap into a vast network of supercomputers and pay only for the power they use, rather than spend millions of dollars on the hardware itself. Such a scenario could become a reality in a few years as international efforts […]

Companies looking for evidence of database life beyond Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp. can be optimistic after news from third-party vendors supporting Sybase Inc. and the University of California at Berkeleys PostgreSQL. Embarcadero Technologies Inc. last week announced a Sybase version of its SQL Debugger tool, which will be available later this month for […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares the final release of its Visual Studio .Net tool set, its vision for Web services and the .Net platform on which those services are based is set to become a reality. Anders Hejlsberg, chief designer of Microsofts object-oriented C# programming language and one of its 20 Distinguished Engineers, spoke to eWeek […]

VP, Application Outsourcing Keane Inc. Elevator Pitch: Barry has ignited Keanes application outsourcing practice since heading it up two and a half years ago. He built a business plan and made the practice more aggressive. Claim to Fame: Sparking the companys application outsourcing practice. Current Challenge: “Keeping my boss happy. Biggest challenge is to continually […]

As XML becomes deeply embedded in the Internets infrastructure, three particular implementations — ebXML, SOAP and XHTML — have emerged as technologies likely to provide the foundations for future Web services. The downturn in the economy hasnt slowed XML development as much as it has consolidated support behind the most durable XML technologies, says Ronald […]

Large Enterprises Stick With E-Com … Although many independent e-marketplaces are struggling to survive, large global enterprises have not given up on business-to-business e-commerce, according to a recent report by research company eMarketer Inc. The New York-based company predicted that B2B e-commerce transactions worldwide will reach $2.7 trillion by 2004. The bulk of those transactions […]