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Can a CRM solution developed by two small businesses compete against million-dollar suites from major players like Siebel Systems? Could be, if The Mercadien Group and Pronto Solutions hit the small and midsize CRM market at the right price with the right feature set. The Mercadien Group, an accounting firm formerly known as Druker, Rahl […]

There are no street addresses in cyberspace. But some new Internet geographical location services can ascertain — with varying degrees of accuracy — the physical location of a single Internet user. These services each work in a similar manner: They do a quick database lookup that correlates an individual users IP address to a point […]

Name: Jeff Harrow Title: Founder, The Harrow Group Web Info: www.theharrowgroup.com Claims to Fame: Former Compaq futurist; DECnet guru Back in 1984, when Jeff Harrow worked at Digital Equipment Corp. before there were sophisticated design tools, he tackled networking the old-fashioned way: with a set of blueprints, some string, a can of tacks and a […]

In announcing his companys second-quarter earnings recently, Tom Siebel had ample reason for celebration. “We met our plan for the quarter,” Siebel Systems CEO and co-founder told analysts after he bested Wall Streets second-quarter projections. “Were one of the few who did.” Siebel is the worlds largest customer relationship management (CRM) software vendor, with about […]

In Compaq Computers continued push to make services a bigger part of its future, the Houston company today, Aug. 20, will announce a partnership to make its consulting and integration services available to customers of computer retailer CDW Computer Centers. CDW, which had sales of $3.8 billion in 2000, could provide a good fit for […]

A portal war is brewing. Carriers that want to sell managed and hosting services to business customers buying such mundane connectivity as frame relay see a competitive edge in new reporting and monitoring tools. Teleglobe today plans to announce it will deploy Visual Networks Technologies Visual eWatcher, a tool that will offer customers a view […]

The 9i version of Oracle Corp.s JDeveloper application takes aim at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., expanding the software companys offerings in Java development technology and Web services. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company last week launched a beta version of the product, which Oracle officials said will compete with Suns Forte for Java technology […]

Developers looking for a simpler way to design Java2 Enterprise Edition applications, especially for Web services, got an early boost from Oracle as it released its latest development platform to members of its user group. Oracle9i JDeveloper, with new support for J2EE and XML, wasnt expected until later this year, but the 1.7 million members […]

The Internet economy wont start humming again until a better way is found to connect businesses to the backbone — and to make money doing it. While the silica settles, dozens of companies focusing on “last-mile” technologies are jockeying to be the ones whose names are called when the checks get handed out again. The […]

Paul Racicot shouldnt have been so confident. Just 27 hours earlier, Enron had announced that its broadband business had been crushed in the telecom downturn, losing $102 million in the second quarter on revenue of $16 million. That revenue was about one-tenth of the Enron broadband units sales in the year-earlier second quarter. Yet Racicot, […]