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Two years ago, George Surdu called a meeting with sales representatives from Ford Motor Co.s major technology vendors—IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., EMC Corp., AT&T Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Siemens Corp., among others—and gave them what appeared at first to be very bad news. “Were never going to buy another piece of equipment from you,” the […]

Setting the stage for a classic Washington power struggle, all three branches of government have begun reviewing the nations telecommunications laws with a view toward sweeping away barriers to competition. When the dust settles, the Internet may be governed by a Rubiks Cube of regulation or let loose to carry its broadband purveyors to unprecedented […]

Federal Government Spectrum auctions can resemble high-profile auctions in the movies: full of intrigue, dirty tricks and revenge. The story of the current auction will likely stretch on long after the last bid is made, as auction losers challenge the legitimacy of some of the participants. The auction ended Friday with net bids of $16.8 […]

Your Tax Dollars Not at Work The U.S. Constitution may have helped ensure the smooth transition of power from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration, but it cant do much about the transition of Webmasters. Missing “W”s off of computer keyboards aside, the change in power over the cybergovernment doesnt seem to be a […]

Its beginning to look like 2001 is the year Linux gets down to business. Systems managers who used to ask how Linux crept in the back door now ask if they can get the server to run it through the front door. In Vancouver, British Columbia, for example, Metahost.net, a provider of J.D. Edwards and […]

As the linux world congregates this week in New York, the center of attention, as always, will be Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Resting up from the long 2.4 kernel development cycle, Torvalds took time out to exchange e-mail messages with eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli about 2.4 and beyond. eWeek: The 2.4 kernel has been […]

Determining the success so far of Linux in the enterprise is a little bit like reading a presidential ballot in Florida: Those with different agendas have ways of finding what they want to see. For instance, IBM says it sees enormous promise in the OS and is investing billions in it; Microsoft, meanwhile, looks on […]

The entertainment industry is a gold mine for solutions and service providers. There are boundless nuggets of content and everything associated with it, including creation, management, distribution and storage. There are emerging areas, like digital-rights management, in which a player can still make inroads. And theres confusion. “The media industry is going through a major […]

Everdream and its main competitor, Centerbeam, have nailed the small-business trend we recently highlighted. Keeping bread-and-butter infrastructure running smoothly is the biggest concern among small firms. By leveraging the power of broadband connections, Everdream and Centerbeam are able to offer remote support at surprisingly low prices. Expensive on-site service visits are minimized. Both firms have […]

OS Still Lags in Integration Area Even with the release of the new 2.4 kernel, Linux will have a hard time overthrowing Windows 2000 as an application server, according to Meta Group Inc., of Stamford, Conn. Still missing in the new kernel are features such as entry-level symmetric multiprocessing and operating system resource and session […]

Do you need to move large—and we mean large—chunks of data from a mobile location periodically? Three-year-old SpaceData International LLC (www.spacedata-int.com) may have a solution for you. SpaceData uses NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to haul data from nearly any point on the globe through New Mexico and Texas and then out […]

PSINets transaction solutions and large pieces of Metamor are on the block, the first manifestation of the beleaguered companys strategy to raise cash by selling assets and repair its relationship with Wall Street through fiscal responsibility. The Chantilly, Va., company fell out of favor with investors after issuing a revenue shortfall alert last year, which […]