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E-Biz Weathers the Storm

Surges in web site traffic come with the e-business territory. But few businesses have quite as much experience with unpredictable traffic floods as Weather.com.The...

Sun for ONE

Sun Microsystems last week announced its Open Net Environment, a software strategy that plays up its Java and Internet integration capabilities. While the software...

Crypto Headache

Fifteen months after the Clinton administration relaxed export controls on data-scrambling hardware and software, some U.S. companies are still finding the approval process a...

Fast Facts Infrastructure: February 12, 2001

London CallingOne 2 One, the smallest mobile operator in the U.K., launched an unmetered service package last week, hoping to recruit British callers from...

Software Tracks Performance

Concord Communications Inc. took aim at problems plaguing service providers trying to roll out and scale DSL and IPVPN services with a new service...

Helping Major Companies Link to Suppliers

Net marketplace providers Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. are preparing for what most observers agree will be a year in which the luster...

Ingram Micro Inc.: Watch the Bottom Line

Its been a tough couple of years at Ingram Micro. The mass distributor turned over most of its top management team, watched helplessly as...

Look Whos Talking: February 12, 2001

Sometimes it pays to invest in your worst enemy. Just ask Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy. Even as he rides Unix...

Watching the Bottom Line

Im not a number cruncher. Yet, with each financial reporting season, I find myself spending hours pouring over earnings reports, reading between the numbers...

A Sign of the (Litigious) Times

You cant own knowledge, but you can patent software. Tens of thousands of software patents are issued every year, and patents—unlike copyrights—cant be evaded...