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Smaller is better. thats the lesson we should draw from the EDS-Navy outsourcing contract, which EDS chief executive Michael Jordan last month freely admitted had gone bad. As eWEEK has chronicled since its inception, the monster EDS-Navy deal has been plagued by trouble. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the $6.7 billion […]

NEW YORK—There is more evidence that the IT spending freeze has thawed. IBM Business Consulting Services this week released the results of a survey of 456 top industry executives, the results of which confirm the attitudes reported elsewhere: that business leaders are loosening the purse strings on technology budgets with an eye toward revenue growth. […]

BOSTON—As Nortel Networks gradually emerges from a near death experience over the past year and a half, the company is looking to grow by selling its equipment and services in new international markets. Frank Dunn, CEO of the Ottawa, Ont.-based network equipment supplier, told a gathering of press and analysts here that hes gearing the […]

Out of the ashes of the application service provider market has emerged hosted CRM, not only alive and well, but growing at a faster rate than the mainstream licensed CRM market, according to Giga Information Group. As Dennis Callaghan reports, hosted CRM providers such as Salesnet and Salesforce.com are generating their share of satisfied users […]

Bill Gates is back. After years of seclusion, coinciding with his companys antitrust defense, the computer industrys most powerful figure and the worlds richest man is back, loquaciously, in the public eye. Gates celebrated 20 years of Comdex speaking appearances with his traditional Sunday night keynote address. Before Gates stepped onto the stage, however, he […]

Is Linux blossoming or—gasp!—maturing? When a company, in this case SuSE, is acquired, its a sign of value. But it is also a sign of industry consolidation, which is a sign of maturity—which is the kiss of death in this industry. To reach maturity with a minority server market share and a negligible client market […]

In the end, its all about the developers. Microsoft has long understood this, and winning over those developers has been a persistent specialty of Gates, Ballmer & Co. The lure to entice them for the next platform generation is “Indigo,” the service-oriented architecture technology thats in “Longhorn,” the next major version of Windows. Indigo will […]

Thinking green? You should be if youre a user of Great Plains or Navision software. Project Green, the code name for the next generation of Microsoft business applications, is where youll be heading in 2006 or so, about the time that “Longhorn,” the next major version of Windows, appears on the scene. That gives you […]

If you want to get an idea how the economy is doing, ask a credit card company. Senior Writer Anne Chen learned from Visa USA Executive Vice President Scott Thompson that Visa transactions are 15 to 16 percent higher now than a year ago. Now, says Thompson, hes got to come up with enough capacity […]

Its not easy being microsoft. you sell by far the most widely used office productivity suite, but how do you give users reasons to upgrade to the latest version? With the release of Office 2003, Microsoft once again is faced with the arcane calculus implicit in balancing how much to nudge users to upgrade without […]

BOSTON—The United States ought not to fear the move to offshore outsourcing, according to speakers at a panel discussion sponsored by the ITAA here. “Offshoring will not mean the demise of the U.S. economy,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of the consultancy Global Insight, in Waltham, Mass. “How do we deal with it? We dont […]

Bankrolled by a $1 billion IT budget, United Parcel Service of America Inc. is using technology to increase efficiency in package delivery while it moves beyond that narrow discipline to become a broad supply chain integrator. UPS announced last week a suite of Package Flow Technologies, including software, hardware and new processes. The software alone […]