Scot Petersen

Youve been reading a lot of “bad” technology news lately. In the last month, our front page has included stories on the dot-com and B2B busts, the PC sales slowdown, perpetually unsafe networks, Lotus losing more of its independence to IBM, Computer Associates ASP plans stuck on the ground, and ever-more-failing service providers. I could […]

I would have to ask the questioner. I havent had a chance to ask the questioners the question theyve been questioning.”—George W. Bush, Jan. 8, 2001. The context of Dubyas latest “Bushism”: the now-failed nomination of Linda Chavez as his secretary of labor. Bushs point, if you can follow his logic, is that he never […]

Weve read a lot of news and commentary lately about the infamous PC slowdown, including the latest from eWeeks own editorial board. Such a slowdown is indeed here, and its been a long time coming. There are too many megahertz out there chasing too few demanding computing functions, and thats led to a technological recession […]

If your business made it out of last year alive, and if weve learned anything during the last official days of the 20th century, that lesson may be that the Internet cant solve all of our problems, that not all businesses can run on it, that it isnt the best communications medium and that it […]

If put to a vote, 2000 would have to be considered the most interesting, if not the most eventful, year of technology ever. Internet security, B2B vs. B2C and the Napster revolution moved computing news off the technology pages and onto the front pages of most news outlets. And you wont find any dimpled, hanging, […]

Rakesh Sood, a general partner at Sprout Group, a venture capital affiliate of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, said it all at the GroundZero 4 B2B conference in Los Angeles this month: “Technology investors have been like kids playing soccer, chasing the ball in one group from one corner of the field to another.” Truer words […]

Gee, I guess weve bought all the PCs and workstations well ever need. How else can you explain the unceremonious butt-kicking Wall Street has given the computer stocks in the last two months? Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and now Gateway are all reeling from slumping sales after years of pumping out boxes as if they […]

Business-to-business e-marketplaces that began the year with such promise are now approaching the end of 2000 nagged by doubts about long-term viability. Last weeks announcement that Ventro Corp. is closing its two wholly owned exchanges, Chemdex and Promedix, underscored a shakeout process that has been going on for months and will continue into next year, […]

Ever since the birth of the modern-day internet, weve chronicled an endless parade of death. The death of the PC. The death of client/server computing. The death of software (as we know it). The death of the music industry. The latest death caused by the Web I heard is the death of auctions: “Auctions are […]