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September 2000
September 29, 2000 Sun Buys Cobalt Sun has finally decided to move into the server appliance arena, by purchasing Cobalt Networks, a leader in that marketplace.
September 29, 2000 Negotiating the Best Software Deal TechnologyEvaluation.COM analysts have separated the software negotiation process into three discrete categories. All three are critical individually, yet should always be pursued within the context of the larger discussion.
September 28, 2000 SynQuest Posts Mixed Results Still warm from an August IPO, SynQuest finds its revenues growing to new heights while its bottom line remains submerged.
September 28, 2000 My Network Engineers are Talking about Implementing Split DNS. What Does that Mean? You have heard that something called split DNS can speed up websites. What does this mean and how does it work?
September 27, 2000 J.D. Edwards’ Mixed Blessings On August 23, J.D. Edwards reported financial results for the third quarter ended July 31, 2000. Despite notable license fee revenue growth of 56% over the same period last year, the net loss for the Q3 2000 was a hefty $22.6 million.
September 27, 2000 IBM PC Line Redrawn IBM has decided to combine its entire desktop PC line under one name. The NetVista brand, until last week the name for IBM’s thin clients and appliance desktops, will now cover the whole range, including newly-released models for home and business.
September 27, 2000 Not Your Mother’s Portal Radnet’s PortalworkX™ provides an elegant solution to a class of problems you knew you had, but thought you’d have to solve by hacking up other products that do something different. The keyword is collaboration.
September 26, 2000 VA Linux Releases NAS Server Trying to break into the growing Network-Attached Storage market, Linux-based hardware manufacturer VA Linux has announced the release of its 9205 NAS storage server appliance.
September 26, 2000 Tired Of Losing Your Oil Derricks? Asset management maven iVita announced both its newest software release, Commander 3.0, and a partnership with wireless specialist PinPoint. PinPoint’s wireless technology will tell iVita where a company’s capital assets are. iVita will tell the company what to do with them.
September 25, 2000 QAD Continues to Wade Through Red Ink QAD, one of the leading ERP vendors, announced a number of product and alliance initiatives during its annual user conference in May. However, yet another saga in the tale of their expensive R&D operation was included in the report.
September 25, 2000 eConnections Expands Web With IPNet eConnections offers a sound proposition for users who have streamlined internal supply chains and are ready to begin life as a node in an inter-enterprise network.
September 25, 2000 How Do You Categorize Notebooks? The notebook computer market has become one of the remaining battlegrounds for computer manufacturers. Our purpose here is to define the notebook market segments, describe what the general characteristics of each segment are, and to give users an idea of what features they can expect for each segment.
September 22, 2000 BoldFish’s Opt-In E-Mail Delivery System ~ ‘Oh My That’s Fast!’ BoldFish will deliver the message faster and more reliably than any other opt-in mail delivery system on the market today.
September 22, 2000 Customer Relationship Analysis Firm Extends Reach thinkAnalytics signs a partnering agreement with one of the largest information technology services companies in North America. Why does CGI expect thinkAnalytics’ software to make a difference to its customers?
September 22, 2000 IBM Tries to Take More Market Share from Oracle, BMC, and CA IBM has announced a four-year, $200 million investment to make it more cost effective and easier for companies to manage data on IBM S/390 enterprise servers. They will attempt to compete more effectively with Computer Associates (which acquired Platinum Technology and Sterling Software), BMC, and Oracle in the lucrative database tools market.
September 21, 2000 Geac Trying Its Luck in Partnering After a slew of acquisitions in the past, which have resulted with varied outcomes, Geac, a Canadian supplier of enterprise management software, seems to be turning to partnerships to expand its product offering and to convince the market about its commitment to further develop attractive product offering.
September 21, 2000 IBM and Partners Load the Guns in Europe IBM has launched a service provider initiative in Europe, a move that underlines the growing trend to 'coopetition' behavior among service providers and technology partners; however, it will be on a scale much vaster than the one-on-one relationships that have been the vogue for the past couple of years. The implications of a partnership between a legacy giant and emerging new players are worldwide.
September 21, 2000 IMI Sees Red In Dawn Of Fiscal 2001 Industri-Matematik had no complaints about its performance during the first quarter of fiscal 2001 in spite of lower revenues and earnings.
September 20, 2000 Ultimate Connection Seeking Its US Retail Connection Through Solomon Software Partners Great Plains announced at the Solomon Partner Conference in August, a number of new product enhancements and/or product alliances for its recently acquired division and former archrival, Solomon Software. Solomon Value Added Resellers focused on the retail industry or interested in addressing this dynamic growth sector, have been invited to partner with Ultimate Connection, a South African retail software vendor.
September 20, 2000 EXE and i2 Advance Relationship Some speculate that the recent agreement is a prelude to merger. Synergies undoubtedly exist.
September 20, 2000 The New Manugistics Faces A New Millennium New executive management, Internet-savvy products, and aggressive promotion have rescued Manugistics Group from the brink of collapse, at least for the short term. Once the supply chain planning market leader, Manugistics has witnessed its market position erode steadily over the last several years in favor of newcomers to the market. In the new millennium, Manugistics faces its next great challenge – to leverage recent market momentum in building a strong foundation for future success.
September 19, 2000 New Release For Ariba’s Software Busy as it’s been with wheeling and dealing, Ariba has still found the time to release an upgrade to its Ariba Buyer software.
September 19, 2000 Thru-Put Announces Features For New APS Release Internet collaboration is all the rage and SCM vendors are web enabling client/server-based applications in an effort to retain current customers and entice prospective ones.
September 19, 2000 Oracle Applications - An Internet-Reinvented Feisty Challenger It is startling how much has changed in Oracle’s applications business during the last two years. Oracle is indisputably the most reformed applications vendor, having achieved significant growth in total revenue, license revenue and net income. Oracle has a head start on most of its competition pertaining to Internet applications, and the Company still leads the ERP pack both on product technology vision and execution. However, the future will by no means be without serious challenges.
September 18, 2000 EAI - The 'Crazy Glue' of Business Applications When companies create or change trading relationships or when they swap out business application systems, information systems professionals are required to build application system interfaces and alter transaction processing models. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Tools have matured nicely and continue to evolve making the job not only more simple but actually offering a preferred alternative to code-data-level integration alternatives. Selection of EAI tools must be based on technical capabilities that support the entire life-cycle of usage.
September 18, 2000 Turmoil in CPU-Land Intel announces a recall of the barely-shipping 1.13 GHz Pentium III, and AMD announces the head of its PC processor unit is 'leaving to pursue other interests'.
September 18, 2000 American Software Has Been Starving While Delivering Innovations American Software seems to have grasped the requirements of its potential customers that need both order capturing and ERP backbone order fulfillment functionality within a single source. And, it did this while coping with a Y2K-caused financial pinch.
September 15, 2000 Interelate: More on Tap Than Apps Interelate, a customer intelligence ASP, recently announced partnerships with infrastructure service provider LoudCloud and CRM analytics vendor E.piphany. These partnerships complement Interelate’s analytics expertise to provide new analytical CRM service offerings that promise to provide more value to organizations than simply hosted applications, or "apps on tap."
September 15, 2000 Intentia Has Been Bleeding For Its Platform Independence Over the past few years, Intentia International AB, a Swedish provider of business applications, has been on the quest to meet the anticipated demands its customers would have during the new e-economy era. It has been successful in its endeavors, however, with the price of posting six consecutive quarterly losses.
September 14, 2000 Mortice Kern Systems Goes Vertical (Sky, that is) Mortice Kern Systems (MKS), long known for their expertise in porting UNIX environments (for instance, a Korn Shell or a CGI script) to native Windows NT and Windows 2000, has expanded into the world of e-business. They have created a new wholly owned subsidiary called Vertical Sky, which is marketing a product called the Vertical Sky Evolution Management Solution™. The vendor believes that it will 'provide integrated management of code and content in an e-business'.
September 14, 2000 ICARUS Ends Solo Flight With Aspen With its third installation at Lanier Worldwide, Provia Software marks the 500th implementation of its VIAWARE application suite.
September 14, 2000 Traffic Audits Make Strange Bedfellows: Part II - The Audit Process With traffic being the lifeblood of an e-commerce site the Marketing crew knows that the traffic numbers are going to be audited. And they look to the CIO to make sure that the numbers will pass muster. If there’s a problem with the numbers, the CIO may be blamed. So it’s important to understand what auditors want to see, and to make sure that your collection and reporting procedures are appropriate. The greatest danger is having to restate numbers that you’ve already provided to advertisers.
September 13, 2000 ERP Belle Époque Officially Ended With the Demise of Baan and SSA Once high-flying ERP vendors, Baan and SSA, have officially ceased to exist as independent companies on the same day in the first week of August thereby marking the end of the golden era of traditional ERP.
September 13, 2000 Traffic Audits Make Strange Bedfellows: Part I - The Why’s and What’s of Auditing Have you heard the one where the Director of Product Marketing, the CIO and the auditor are found together in a small conference room? Couldn’t happen, you say? Au contraire! With traffic being the lifeblood of an e-commerce site the Marketing crew knows that the traffic numbers are going to be audited. And they look to the CIO to make sure that the numbers pass muster. If there’s a problem with the numbers, the CIO may be blamed.
September 13, 2000 Red Hat’s Linux Domination Weakens Red Hat still controls the Linux market, but now it’s getting some competition from SuSE, Caldera, and TurboLinux.
September 12, 2000 SAS Institute Shoots for the Two-Stop-Shop with new Release of Warehouse Administrator SAS Institute, a vendor of integrated data warehousing, decision support and information delivery software, has announced the production availability of SAS/Warehouse Administrator® software, Version 2.1. With an open component-based architecture, improved data access and management capabilities, thin-client interfaces, and other enhancements, it is an important component of the new SAS® software V8.1.
September 12, 2000 PowerCerv Facing Another Stormy Season PowerCerv, a Tampa, FL based mid-market enterprise applications vendor, has been going through its second major attempt to revitalize itself. In August it announced new products and new components to its e-business suite. Nevertheless, it still has to deal with disappointing financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000.
September 12, 2000 The Pros and Cons of Collaborative Planning Among the promises of collaboration are real-time information sharing, the ability to maintain personalized relationships between buyers and sellers, and greater efficiency for all companies joined in the expanded enterprise. Unfortunately, excitement surrounding B2B collaboration often drowns out the simple truth that collaboration products are still in a formative stage and their promise, largely unfulfilled.
September 11, 2000 Global Vendor Negotiation Strategies TechnologyEvaluation.Com has defined 6 global negotiation categories and macro questions that should be reviewed in preparation for any major technology negotiation.
September 11, 2000 Logility FY 2001 Comes In Like a Lamb Logility’s flagging revenues might cause day traders to panic and throw all their money into i2 stock, but cooler heads (and current customers) should not be overly concerned.
September 11, 2000 MAPICS Back On Track, But Not Without Restructuring Pains On August 23, MAPICS, Inc., one of the leading mid-market ERP vendors, announced that it is taking steps to reduce costs through a restructuring plan. Earlier, on July 27, MAPICS reported results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2000.
September 8, 2000 Winner Takes All – Siebel Ousts SalesLogix From Solomon’s Deal Much sooner than its ERP counterparts had done it in their respective market, Siebel has been making a big push into the CRM mid-market with the introduction of eBusiness 2000 MidMarket Edition. Solomon Software, a division of Great Plains, is another in its string of recently announced notable product alliances.
September 8, 2000 GNOME Will Try to Buff Up Linux In its fight to catch up to Windows for desktop mindshare and market share, Linux has received a boost from the Gnome Foundation and a number of key systems manufacturers.
September 7, 2000 Aspen Technology Built Success From The Ground Up AspenTech’s success comes in part due to its unique vision for automating the enterprise.
September 7, 2000 New Internet Appliances Coming from Compaq Compaq has jumped into the home Internet Appliance game with its latest iPAQ offering. Is this a continuation of computer manufacturers attempting to create a market?
September 7, 2000 PeopleSoft 8 Launched – Anything to Write Home About? PeopleSoft, once a high flyer owing to its congenial culture and slick ERP product, has unveiled a number of new, possibly revolutionary enterprise applications that it hopes will help it end a protracted dry season and put it back on the ERP top chart. The company has invested two years and over a half billion dollars to develop the product. It has now emerged with a new platform, a new set of products and a new attitude of lambasting competition.
September 6, 2000 Lipstream Speaks to Kana Lipstream, the company that provides voice enabled chat to Excite, also supplies Voice over IP software to eCRM vendors. Kana is the most recently announced CRM customer. Kana has voice enabled their RealTime offering to provide ecommerce sites a way to talk to their customers.
September 6, 2000 Provia Software Celebrates A Milestone With its third installation at Lanier Worldwide, Provia Software marks the 500th implementation of its VIAWARE application suite.
September 6, 2000 The Wheres of Electronic Procurement An overview of one of the central issues facing a deployment of e-procurement: Who controls the software?
September 5, 2000 PeopleSoft: No More a Humble Kid From a Rough Neighborhood? PeopleSoft has been on a quest to dramatically improve its customer service & support by weeding out its 3rd-party consulting partners. PeopleSoft also has a new platform, a new set of products and a new surprising attitude of lambasting competition. Further, its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000 are upbeat.
September 5, 2000 Merant Goes South on the Stock Market Another vendor has stated that growth and license revenues in the mainframe arena are softer than expected. Shares of Merant (NASDAQ: MRNT), the provider of PVCS, a major software configuration management product (acquired from Intersolv), in addition to other software, have dropped more than 24 percent after the company released preliminary financial estimates for its first fiscal quarter recently-ended, showing revenues likely will be about 17 percent less than the previous year due to a decline in COBOL license fees.
September 5, 2000 How Do You Categorize Servers? The term 'PC Server' encompasses a wide range of computing hardware features and functionality. So, how can the entire range be subdivided into more manageable groups? This note discusses one way of separating them, and the functional characteristics associated with each group.
September 1, 2000 Human-Machine Interaction Company Ramps Up Firewall Product Line Will firewalls and sign-language soon be interactive? If anyone can do it, Cybernet Systems will be the first.
September 1, 2000 Simplexis Says 'Watch Our (Chalk) Dust' Forget those PTA bake sales. Education is a big business and, with specialized needs and restrictions, may require a specially targeted vertical eMarketplace to take advantage of online savings. Simplexis wants to be that marketplace – and more – and has facilitated $19 million in purchases in its first semester.

 
August 2000
August 31, 2000 IBM Nabs Another Application Vendor Vignette is IBM's latest partner. This global strategic alliance promises to boost revenue for both parties. The verdict is still out on the impact to future software development.
August 31, 2000 Security Information Market Heading for Growth The growth of security vulnerabilities is creating a new market for security information. With link sharing and cooperation among sites, it is not clear that this market is nearly as predatory as some publishing markets.
August 31, 2000 Implications and Attitudes As the Andersen's Split under the ICC Ruling: Consulting To Go for a Name Change Andersen Consulting has had a running battle with Arthur Andersen and Andersen Worldwide over Arthur Andersen's encroachment on the management and technology consulting firm's space. The win on August 7 releases Andersen Consulting from all its obligations, turning it into an independent company, with the slight stipulation of a name change.
August 30, 2000 Catalyst International to Tread Water With SAP Through 2000 While Catalyst should be congratulated for improving profitability, the Wall Street and user communities were clearly expecting to see more revenue from its pact with ERP giant SAP.
August 30, 2000 Remedy Welcomes You To Your New Office. Now Get To Work! At Remedy there is a 5 working day service level agreement for getting new employees up and running. If an employee accepts a job at least five days before the start date, the new office will be all ready with a computer, network access, passwords, orientation appointments and a map of the best route to the coffee room. This shoemaker is now sharing its employee transition management technology with everyone’s children.
August 30, 2000 Compaq to Offer Co-Branded iPAQ BlackBerry Wireless E-mail Solution Expect Compaq to vigorously market the iPAQ Blackberry device line along with its messaging based hardware. This new strategic relationship will bode well for price conscious consumers due to increased production and therefore reduced costs, to meet the existing (and growing) demand for wireless messaging.
August 29, 2000 Epicor Software Corp.: How Far From Being 'One-Stop' Shop? Epicor Software has been striving to complete its evolution from a vendor of financial accounting software to a provider of holistic business performance solutions, including integrated front office, back office and e-business capabilities.
August 29, 2000 Peregrine Welcomes Loran to Its Nest In Network Management Matrimony In July 1999 Peregrine Systems got engaged into a strategic partnership with Loran Technologies to OEM Loran’s network management software. Now the two have tied the knot.
August 29, 2000 i2 Paints Broad Strokes at eDay i2 receives a great deal of criticism for delivering less than it sells, but remains the one SCM vendor most capable to realize its vision.
August 28, 2000 Is Something Fishy Happening To Your Website? Freshwater Software offers powerful solutions for website monitoring. There’s a product or service for every budget and every type of site, and the customer service behind it all makes this a unique company.
August 28, 2000 Ensim to Host HP OpenMail as an ASP In the rush to achieve an application hosting messaging service, HP’s OpenMail has been largely overlooked until now.
August 28, 2000 Cart32 in Need of Duct Tape With a gaping security hole, anyone using Cart32 can buy all kinds of stuff for free, or whatever price they feel like paying.
August 25, 2000 Compaq Wins Supercomputer Contract, But Is It Enough? Compaq recently was awarded a contract for the world’s largest supercomputer, which will use its Alpha processors. But what’s happening with their standard high-end machines?
August 25, 2000 Sit Down and Have a Long Talk with Your E-Business Application Locus Dialogue Inc. announced a solution developer partnership with Great Plains. Through this partnership Locus Dialogue will speech-enable access to solutions from Great Plains. I can hear it now… 'DAMN IT, JIM !! I’m an e-commerce app, not an ACCOUNTANT!'
August 25, 2000 SCT Comes Back With a Vengeance SCT Corporation, an IT solutions provider for a number of disparate industries, announced that the quarter which ended June 30, 2000, was a record quarter for license fee revenue within SCT's process industry solutions business. SCT, which claims experiencing continued success with enterprise-wide, global accounts in the process industries, now has eight out of the top 16 food processors in North America as clients.
August 24, 2000 Peregrine Polishes the Old In-Out-and-In-between Peregrine entered into partnerships that improve its solutions for customers buying new goodies or disposing of old ones. In addition, the company will develop packaged integration solutions between its own products and market leading ERP and CRM solutions.
August 24, 2000 More Marketplace Success For Manugistics? Give Manugistics high marks in self-confidence: some vendors are reluctant to announce new client wins before successful completion of the implementation, let alone before the deal is final.
August 24, 2000 Lawson Software Marches Over $300M Milestone On August 3, Lawson Software, a provider of Internet-enabled business applications, announced it had won the largest contract in its history to extend its healthcare market leadership. Earlier, on July 20, Lawson Software announced financial results and its year-over-year growth statistics for the year ended May 31, 2000.
August 23, 2000 Active Voice Releases Unity 2.4 Release 2.4 of Active Voice’s Unity Unified Messaging solution has hit the streets touting software only support for Cisco’s Call Manager 3.01, unlimited usage of ViewMail® for Microsoft Outlook and a special agreement with Microsoft to allow telephone only users access to his/her inbox, without the need to purchase a Client Access License (CAL).
August 23, 2000 PC Market Figures Show Compaq, Dell, and HP Lead The desktop PC market is turning from a five-way fight into a three-way horse race, led by Dell, Compaq, and HP.
August 23, 2000 SAP Remains Solid While Transitioning On July 20, SAP AG, the leading provider of enterprise business software applications, announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2000. Despite an 18% decrease of net income, a notable increase of license revenue in all markets worldwide was encouraging.
August 22, 2000 Deutsche Telekom to Acquire VoiceStream Wireless Due to national security concerns we do not believe this foreign acquisition will be allowed to close. On the off chance that the government approves the acquisition, we can look forward to a rapid advancement in wireless digital communications, rivaling functionality found presently in European Markets.
August 22, 2000 They Can Run, But You Can’t Hide Politicians are reputedly experts at reinterpreting past statements in the face of current realities. A minor flap about one of them reveals a new way that the Web may impact politics (and business).
August 22, 2000 How Has Made2Manage Systems Been Managing Itself? On July 25, Made2Manage Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise business systems for small and midsize manufacturers, and Click Commerce, Inc., the provider of Enterprise Channel Management software and services, announced a new offering to enable small and mid-sized manufacturers to leverage the Internet to support their sales, inventory and service networks. Earlier, on July 19, Made2Manage Systems, Inc. reported second quarter 2000 results.
August 22, 2000 Vendors Beware! It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It. A study from Iowa State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering suggests that the format and organization of a proposal can significantly affect a vendor’s chance of winning a contract. And we thought those university professors didn’t know much about the real world!
August 21, 2000 Mirapoint Launches Global Partner Program Mirapoint has expanded its presence in the ASP\ISP messaging community, both in terms of name recognition and product functionality and has logically implemented a partner program called MAPP.
August 21, 2000 Siebel Enters Smaller Markets in a Big Way Siebel is making a big push into the mid-market with the introduction of eBusiness 2000 MidMarket Edition. This product promises mid-size businesses a more affordable, scaled down version of Siebel’s top tier application suite.
August 21, 2000 Study Shows: FBI Alienates Industry Security Experts A comprehensive study done by TechnologyEvaluation.Com has shown that, for years the FBI has been alienating industry security experts. Some of the best industry security professionals want nothing to do with helping the FBI resolve cybercrime. Recently, one of the leading Department of Justice attorneys general, well-known for expertise in successfully prosecuting cybercrime, asked TechnologyEvaluation.Com why so many security and information technology professionals snub their noses at law enforcement agencies that exist to protect our nation's vital assets - private and public. TechnologyEvaluation.Com went behind the scenes to find o
August 18, 2000 Computer Manufacturers Shifting Their Focus to Start-Ups Sun Microsystems and Gateway have announced initiatives designed to make their products and services more appealing to start-up companies, especially those where cash may be a little tight.
August 18, 2000 Firewall Cowboyz Set the Stage to Free Innocent Convict Cowboyz.com builds and sells affordable firewall appliances to small to medium sized businesses. When not deploying firewalls, this small-time firewall vendor gives something back by taking notice and assisting to restore justice to a falsely accused convict.
August 18, 2000 Yahoo! Goes Mobile in Greece The offering is available only in English, which may prove to be a major deterrent to a large percentage of OTE’s clients. Initial wireless services will include the typical industry set of features, e-mail, stock quotes and news.
August 18, 2000 Establishing Enterprise Architecture Governance This article discusses the issues around implementing architecture governance, and what constitutes viable approaches to establishing effective governance processes.
August 17, 2000 Lasership.com Looks To Descartes For Same-Day Delivery Help LaserShip.com, a nationwide online network of independent same-day delivery companies in the U.S., has licensed Descartes’ DeliveryNet solution for transportation and logistics to enable the distribution of e-commerce purchases to businesses and consumers.
August 17, 2000 Rackmount Server Sales Surge Rack-optimized servers are reported to have increased their quarter-over-quarter unit sales by over 50%
August 17, 2000 Symantec Swallows AXENT; Takes on Network Associates Symantec has filed an intent to purchase AXENT in a stock-for-stock transaction of $975 million.
August 16, 2000 Baan Defectors – Is This Only Tip of an Iceberg? While Baan may have avoided euthanasia in the nick of time, evidence is mounting that a number of anxious and/or disgruntled customers have not found this assuring.
August 16, 2000 When You Realized the Need for a Unified View of Your Customers, that is E.piphany E.piphany’s E.5 product suite is scheduled for release in late August. The new suite combines analytical customer information with traditional CRM functionality to provide advances in personalization and campaign management.
August 16, 2000 Back to the Future: Olde JWT Comes Back and Agency.com Feels the Pinch When Lipton Brisk hired web expert Agency.com over JWT it got them more than it bargained for: an agency full of ideas that clashed with their image. JWT's persistence at getting its account back is an example that new and exciting and technology expertise doesn't buy much for pure plays if they don't understand their clients. And the world is changing –back.
August 16, 2000 Novatel Wireless and Diversinet Team Up to Provide Security for Wireless Modems The Minstrel Wireless Modem from Novatel Wireless is a solid unit in and of itself, however the addition of secure certificate transactions will increase sales as end user comfort levels are increased.
August 15, 2000 Concur Gives Up The Boast Concur Technologies dreamed of going <I>mano a mano</I> with Ariba and Commerce One. However, announcing the details of its new operating plan in the report of a disappointing quarter, the company has revealed that 'procurement is not us.' Then again, there really is a need for e-procurement, isn’t there?
August 15, 2000 Manhattan Associates Completes Second Quarter On Record Pace Atlanta-based supply chain execution (SCE) software vendor Manhattan Associates announces its second fiscal quarter results.
August 15, 2000 Red Hat Releases Clustering Software Red Hat is the latest of the Linux distributors to provide its own version of clustering software.
August 14, 2000 Is Fourth Shift Succeeding in Providing 'Complete Customer Care'? On July 25, Fourth Shift Corporation and SupplierMarket.com announced a partnership that will enable purchasing professionals to locate ideal trading partners, submit RFQs for new contracts, and receive the results of reverse auctions, all from their familiar Fourth Shift vendor operations, manufacturing planning and scheduling, and product definition screens. Earlier, on July 18, Fourth Shift Corporation reported a loss of $.37 per share for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000.
August 14, 2000 SAP - A Leader Under Reconstruction SAP is responding to the changing Internet marketplace by restructuring to develop flexibility and forming key partnerships and alliances to put content behind its extensive advertising campaign for mySAP. com
August 14, 2000 It’s All About User Experience But, How Can We Measure User Experience? Now that everyone understands the importance of tuning websites to maximize the user experience, the industry is scrambling to figure out how to measure it. WebCriteria has ridden into town with its latest silver bullet.
August 14, 2000 Windows 2000 Bug Fixes Posted Almost six months after releasing Windows 2000 to the public, Microsoft Corp. has released its first set of bug fixes, formally known as Service Pack 1.
August 11, 2000 Baltimore Technologies Doubles Revenues, Offers World-Class PKI Hosting Baltimore Technologies expects to report a sound quarter and does not expect to be plagued by the same erroneous projections that instigated two class-action lawsuits against Entrust.
August 11, 2000 GE and Commerce One Turn on the Lights - But You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet General Electric’s Global Exchange Services announces a far-reaching partnership with Commerce One. The first target market is the 100,000 current trading partners of GXS. After that, although plans aren’t final, you can be sure they won’t be hiding their light under a bushel.
August 11, 2000 80 Million Ways to be Agile On July 26, 2000, Agilera, an application service provider (ASP), announced the signing of a definitive agreement for $80 million in its second equity financing. Agilera will use the financing to fuel the expansion of the company’s general operations, including the development of its operations centers and the expansion of its business model.
August 10, 2000 OmniSky Selects WorkSpot to Develop Wireless Internet Services Given that OmniSky’s wireless Internet service is Palm OS specific, WorkSpot is a safe and relatively inexpensive partner for OmniSky, which is still a privately funded organization
August 10, 2000 e-Business Service Provider Evaluation & Selection This is a transcript of an audio conference on E-Business Service Provider Evaluation and Selection presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation used the TEC patented selection engine WebTESS to conduct a live real time evaluation and selection. It then reviewed the critical differentiating service provider criteria, as well as detailed comparisons of competing vendors within the various types of DBSPs.
August 10, 2000 How Detrimental Can a 2nd-In-Charge’s Departure Be? In an unusually terse press release from June 30, Oracle Corporation, one of the largest providers of software for e-business, announced that Ray Lane was leaving his post as Oracle's President and COO.
August 10, 2000 Microsoft Certified Fresh On July 14, 2000, at the Fusion 2000 business symposium, Microsoft Corp. announced new tools and programs to support the growing application hosting market. Application service providers (ASPs) can take advantage of new technical resources, partnerships, licensing and certification programs.
August 9, 2000 Jamcracker Dredges a New Channel Jamcracker, an ASP providing business services for HR management, expense management and sales force automation solutions has announced a new program to increase sales. Jamcracker’s Channel Program offers sales and implementation training to its new channel partners.
August 9, 2000 Can Geac Reshuffle the ERP Standings? In July, Geac Computer Corporation Limited, the largest Canadian business applications software vendor and an aspirant for a leading ERP vendor position, announced its financial results for fiscal 2000. Earlier, on June 26, Geac solidified its enterprise systems presence in North America by consolidating its various North American ERP operations into one business unit - Geac Enterprise Solutions.
August 9, 2000 Microsoft Hopes to Win Over Consumer Privacy Advocates Microsoft aims to assist users understand privacy issues by embedding privacy agents into its web browser
August 9, 2000 The Whys and Hows of a Security Vulnerability Assessment TEC outlines the reasons for having a Security Vulnerability Assessment done, how a security vulnerability assessment is performed, what can be gained by enlisting the Security Vulnerability Assessment process, and what you should expect to see in a Security Vulnerability Assessment report. After all, the most important reason for having a Security Vulnerability Assessment performed is to enable corrective action. How can you know what to secure if you don't know what is insecure?
August 8, 2000 Earthlink Leads the Way in DSL Security DSL providers speed up their customers' Internet access, however, at the same time they also expose these customers to enormous security risk. Earthlink has gone the extra mile and is giving out free firewall software to all its DSL customers.
August 8, 2000 System Software Suppliers Slip Seriously Shares of Computer Associates, BMC Software, Compuware Corporation, and others have suffered serious setbacks on the stock market in recent days due to shortfalls in revenue. These companies are direct competitors, and are all suffering the same fate in the stock market. Once again, the dreaded Wall Street 'whisper number' has not been made, and the stock market has reacted harshly. Sales of mainframe software have softened, causing much of the shortfall.
August 8, 2000 Logistics.com Solutions Target A Grand Scale The new Logistics.com expects to become the leading provider of information technology and e-commerce solutions for the transportation and logistics industries.
August 8, 2000 Yet Another Crumby Cookie Story Take a company with a simple and honest business model but without all of its privacy policies clearly stated and a second company which a gift for hyperbole. Mix well, bake at 350 degrees, and take out the faux cookie disaster story of the week. Serve with crow.
August 7, 2000 EXE Technologies Begins Life In The Public Eye Undaunted by its negative bottom line, EXE resurrected plans for an IPO this year, proceeds of which will be used to fuel its newfound growth.
August 7, 2000 More Vendors Bail on Oracle in Favor of IBM Oracle’s focus on software application markets is impacting its Database business. Recently SAP AG and Siebel Systems, i2 Technologies, Inc., and PeopleSoft have also chosen IBM’s DB2 Universal Database as their preferred database for developing current and future applications, and as their preferred backend database for customer deployment. In addition, IFS AB, one of the top 10 ERP vendors, which was previously Oracle-centric, has announced an agreement with IBM to add DB2 support.
August 7, 2000 PKI and Biometrics Ready for Take-Off Expect the new e-signature law to bolster both the PKI and biometric markets. This new law allows documents signed through digital signatures to have the same legal ramifications as documents signed in traditional wet-ink.
August 7, 2000 AT&T Has a Thing for Media In February 2000, AT&T announced their 'Ecosystem' which offers network infrastructure and hosting services. They’ve done it again, but this time focusing on the delivery of media. The AT&T 'Ecosystem For Media' is designed to be the industry’s premiere end-to-end digital media platform with the goal to serve 10 million simultaneous streaming media internet users.
August 4, 2000 EAI Vendor Mercator Drops to a Lower Place on the Map Mercator Software, formerly known as TSI International Software, reported higher than forecasted marketing expenses, a new CFO, and missed their earnings estimate by 4 cents a share (predictions were 8 cents a share). Despite the resultant sharp drop in market capitalization, Mercator’s capabilities in the areas of XML and enterprise application integration are still solid.
August 4, 2000 Finding Your Way Around E-commerce Breaking into E-commerce can have you going in circles. This document provides an E-Commerce Roadmap to both prepare you for your trip and keep you from bumping into the bigger obstacles.
August 3, 2000 True to its Texas Roots, i2 Does Everything Big Big revenues, big acquisitions, and a big loss. Seemingly overnight, the Dallas-based vendor has leapt from the ranks of unknown companies to be the undisputed champion of B2B supply chain management software and services.
August 3, 2000 Has Market Been Too Harsh On Great Plains? On June 27, Great Plains Software, Inc., a leading mid-market provider of back-office and e-business solutions, announced financial results for the fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended May 31, 2000. Despite continued growth and profitability, the market reacted to the company’s results that were below analysts’ expectations by almost halving its market capitalization in a day!
August 3, 2000 Secure Transport of EDI and XML for Trading Exchanges IPNet Solutions adds support for the AS2 security standard to its product suite. IPNet builds products to link marketplace partners who use different data formats.
August 3, 2000 Compaq and IBM Alliance for Storage Compaq and IBM will now cross-sell each other’s storage products, and will work together to make their storage hardware and software interoperable.
August 2, 2000 The Net Market of the August Moon Calico Commerce has opened up a subsidiary to sell its business-to-business software products to the Japanese market.
August 2, 2000 Should It Be Renamed 'Unobtainium'? Reports indicate that Intel will delay the release of its 64-bit 'Itanium' processor yet again.
August 2, 2000 Never Was A Story Of More Woe Than This Of RJR And Nabisco The complex maneuvers involved in RJR’s divestiture of Nabisco will prove simple compared to the efforts required to join Kraft and Nabisco in a way that ensures future success.
August 2, 2000 The Necessity of Data Warehousing An explanation of the origins of data warehousing and why it is a crucial technology that allows businesses to gain competitive advantage. Issues regarding technology selection and access to historical 'legacy' data are also discussed.
August 1, 2000 Marketing and Intelligence, Together at Last Net Perceptions ties its own business intelligence package along with Angara’s technology for improving conversion rates into a tidy ASP package.
August 1, 2000 Dell Drops WebPC Dell Computer Corporation has decided to drop its 'WebPC' appliances, with somewhat less fanfare than was created for its November, 1999, announcement.
August 1, 2000 Can You Trust Entrust? An information security company whose middle name is 'Trust' is accused of misrepresentation of revenue projections.

 
July 2000
July 31, 2000 Great Plains Supply Chain Series To Be Powered By Logility Great Plains Software will supplement its ERP suite by incorporating Logility Voyager applications in an OEM deal.
July 31, 2000 Standard & Poor's Announces Security Certification After exposing numerous customers to embarrassing security vulnerabilities, S&P announces a security certification program.
July 31, 2000 Agilera: Making E-Business Agile Last spring, the ASP market witnessed the arrival of an Application Service Provider designed to help organizations adapt to the rapidly changing IT environment. Agilera is the result of a joint venture between CIBER, Verio and Centennial Ventures designed to offer expertise, infrastructure, strategic counsel and e-business fulfillment services to emerging and middle market companies.
July 28, 2000 Manhattan Partnership With E3, MarketMAX Strikes Compromise Manhattan Associates has struck a deal with E3 Corporation and MarketMAX that symbolizes the eternal struggle between best-of-breed and ERP vendors.
July 28, 2000 21st Century Fox Hunt - US vs. Microsoft Next Generation Windows Services? How about Next Generation Microsoft? We outline how the ongoing legal delays will undermine the new Microsoft.NET initiative, as Microsoft goes from being predator in the last century to become this century’s favorite prey.
July 28, 2000 Critical Path and NETIAN Strike Strategic Messaging Alliance NETIAN, South Korea’s largest ISP has selected Critical Path’s Inscribe messaging service to meet the demands of South Korea’s explosive e-mail growth. Critical Path’s Inscribe messaging solution includes e-mail, instant messaging, a homepage builder or HTML editor and bulletin boards.
July 27, 2000 Efinity Offers B2B Clients WAP Access to Supply-Web Site Prior to the end of 2003 we expect close to 1 Billion wireless access phone users globally (Probability 75%), simply put, that’s a lot of people. Companies must be prepared for the rapid onslaught of wireless demand, as is Efinity.
July 27, 2000 Aspen - To Netfinity and Beyond Aspen Technology, Inc. recently announced plans to leverage IBM resources to provide solutions for supply chain management (SCM) customers in the chemicals, petroleum, plastics, paper, metals, pharmaceutical, and other process industries.
July 27, 2000 Intel Outside? Intel’s subsidiary, Intel Online Services recently announced AppChoice™ Managed Hosting Services. The service is designed to offer applications and hosting within their 'Internet Hosting Environment'. In addition to managed hosting services they intend to invest $1 billion in the development and integration of data centers worldwide. Does this mean new commercials will say 'Intel Inside and Out'?
July 27, 2000 J.D. Edwards Chooses Freedom to Choose EAI J.D. Edwards announced a new corporate vision that extends its ‘idea-to-action’ to inter-enterprise collaboration expressed in the phrase ‘freedom to choose’. In other words, take the best of ERP, CRM, eBusiness, and business intelligence components, plumb it with possibly the best of EAI and the workflow integration components and create something called collaborative commerce ‘best-of-breed’ mishmash.
July 26, 2000 Predictive Product Keeps Debtors’ Prison Empty SLP InfoWare adds a module that identifies credit risks.
July 26, 2000 Is Oracle Becoming Invincible? On June 20, Oracle Corporation, the leading provider of database and enterprise software applications, announced its fiscal 2000 results, claiming that it has passed SAP to become the world's largest applications software company.
July 26, 2000 Evaluating the Total Cost of Network Ownership The upfront expenses of a network comprise only 19% of the total cost. The remaining 81% can sneak up on bank management, often unaware of some subtle TCO factors
July 26, 2000 IBM’s DB2 Tops TPC Benchmark List Leapfrogging the rest of the transaction-processing world, IBM has posted TPC-C results more than tripling the highest current transaction-per-minute figure.
July 25, 2000 Syncsort Sigma Manages Database Aggregates Syncsort, a software vendor with years of experience in the sorting of data, has released a new product called Sigma™, which is designed to produce aggregated data within data warehouses to improve response time and reduce database load. The importance of aggregation in a data warehouse cannot be underestimated.
July 25, 2000 SCT Fygir To Lubricate Valvoline’s Supply Chain On the heels of its win at Equilon, SCT Corporation recently secured another high-profile contract in the petroleum products sector with Valvoline, the $1.1 billion lube oil division of Ashland Inc.
July 25, 2000 Siebel Has Done It Again – This Time with Navision Siebel Systems, the leading CRM vendor, remains the most eligible CRM bachelor. On June 21, Navision Software a/s, a Danish provider of ERP solutions for mid-sized companies, and Siebel Systems Inc. announced a worldwide agreement to deliver 'customer-focused eBusiness solutions to meet the needs of mid-sized companies'.
July 25, 2000 Check Point Leads Firewall Market With a workforce of 800+ employees, Check Point continues to see record revenues selling firewall and related information security solutions.
July 24, 2000 Lynx to Donate Advanced Messaging to Linux Open-Source Community Through the release of Lynx’s Messenger Technology code to the ‘Open-Source’ community they hope to gain a strong foothold in Linux messaging as the operating system gains in popularity.
July 24, 2000 Netpliance’s 4X Price Hike - Will It Spell Boom or Doom? Netpliance, Inc., whose i-opener could be considered the first Internet appliance, recently added functionality, but also decided to raise its hardware “membership kit” price from $99 (down from its normal $199) to $399, in an effort to get profits from more than its online services. Will people be willing to pay an extra $300 for the privilege of using a 10-inch display?
July 24, 2000 HP’s LT 6000r Six-CPU Server HP has re-entered the enterprise computing race with the release of its LT 6000r, a six-CPU server with improved performance and excellent transactional price/performance.
July 24, 2000 American Software - A Tacit Avant-Garde? Throughout June, American Software, Inc. continued to announce additional functions that broaden the scope of its e-intelliprise application suite. It also announced financial results for fiscal 2000.
July 21, 2000 Microsoft New Online Messenger ~ Dope Slaps AOL’s Instant Messenger So why would users switch from AOL’s Instant Messaging client to Microsoft’s? Quite simple really, throw in free long distance phone service, offer a comparable and competitive set of base features, and then to make sure you succeed, give it away for free. And just to add injury to insult Microsoft wirelessly enabled the release to embrace the interaction of WAP enabled devices with its user base.
July 21, 2000 The Handspring Visor Goes Wireless ~Look out Palm VII! The Palm VII has the advantage of being an all-in-one device, however the Handspring Visor comes with 8MB of RAM and can be upgraded, allowing a user adequate room for growth.
July 21, 2000 Making Sure Your Service Provider Doesn't Fall Down on the Job A recent Forrester report on Commerce Sites developed by service providers shows costs are rising while service is remaining flat, and sometimes results can be pretty glaring from a 'minor' slip-up to one that can have major client impact.
July 21, 2000 SAP Becoming a (Legal) Polygamist SAPMarkets, the US dot-com spin-off of German ERP leader SAP AG, is partnering with Commerce One to build and sell software for online trading exchanges. This announcement comes only a month after its partnership with Nortel Networks for CRM product offering. SAP, owing to this alliance, has a chance to put content behind its extensive recent advertising campaign for mySAP.
July 20, 2000 MicroStrategy 7 Hits the Street MicroStrategy® Incorporated, has announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 7™, a completely re-architected version of the company’s core intelligence platform. MicroStrategy 7. If the product is able to analyze multi-terabyte data warehouses as claimed by the vendor, MicroStrategy should have a leg up on many of the other business intelligence vendors who are attempting to play in this same space.
July 20, 2000 Optum Unveils Tradestream For Collaborative Fulfillment Supply chain execution vendor, Optum, Inc., recently released Tradestream, a new Internet application that is intended to provide customers and suppliers with the means to eliminate excess inventory and increase working capital.
July 20, 2000 Dead Heat: Corporate Buyers Gain Analysis Tools in Leading e-Procurement Products Commerce One has partnered with Sagent Technology to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. Also, Ariba has partnered with Informatica to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application.
July 20, 2000 Ross Systems, Inc.: In Process of Renaissance Over past two decades, Ross Systems has delivered strong back-office functionality and good customer support within certain industries; it is considered a leader in native process manufacturing functionality. The company has also expanded its online operations through its RenaissanceLink software application portal and its Ross Systems E-Commerce order management software subsidiary. However, its financial position for the last 18 months has eroded due to the combined effects of decreased license revenue and investment in R&D.
July 19, 2000 Dell Snags Motorola’s Grzelakowski to Lead Wireless Business Unit The anticipated advancements in cellular wireless technologies allowing far faster connections means that the global wireless market will break the 600 million user mark and break 10 billion (USD) in market value.
July 19, 2000 License Revenue Up At The New Manugistics Manugistics’ recent rise in license revenues can be attributed to the company’s aggressive sales and marketing initiatives implemented by CEO Greg Owens and his new management team.
July 19, 2000 Oracle (Finally) Learning and Applying Its Own CRM After years of power struggle with its independent applications user group (OAUG), Oracle Corporation is to host its own application user group conference early next year.
July 19, 2000 How Has MAPICS Been Extending? MAPICS, one of the leading mid-market ERP vendors, has significantly expanded its product offering during 2000. On June 15, MAPICS announced the release of XA 6.0, the latest version of its flagship AS/400-based Extended Enterprise Application (EEA). Earlier, on May 9, MAPICS announced the delivery of its second flagship product, the Point.Man Extended Enterprise Edition, which enables customers, suppliers, distributors and partners to collaborate via the Internet. We express our view regarding its latest announcements and strategic direction.
July 18, 2000 Blink.com Takes Bookmarks Mobile A streamlined version of the Blink.com site, Blink WAP allows users to configure their folders of favorite bookmarks on their PC or laptop, then remotely access their accounts.
July 18, 2000 Handspring’s Visor Passes Pocket PC After less than a quarter in retail outlets, Handspring’s Palm-OS based Visor has sprung past Windows-based handhelds in market share.
July 18, 2000 Portal Plays Soothe Pain of Divorce Yahoo tossed Inktomi’s shoes but left the door open for a 'just friends' arrangement behind closed corporate doors. Meanwhile, Inktomi delivers behind the biggest closed door of them all, and doesn’t want a tip.
July 18, 2000 Fighting Cybercrime on the Internet Excerpts from a presentation on cybercrime by Laura Taylor, TEC Director of Security Research for the E-Gov 2000 Conference sponsored by SAIC on July 10, 2000 at the Washington Convention Center.
July 17, 2000 Active Voice Adds Unified Messaging to Cisco’s CallManager The Cisco CallManager is an IP based telephony system that will utilize Active Voice’s software to deliver a reduced dependency on external hardware to achieve UM, resulting in up to a 20% savings to Enterprise clients.
July 17, 2000 One Step Closer to the Global ASP On June 21, 2000, J.D. Edwards & Company, announced the Company’s JDe.sourcing application hosting program has expanded its scope through partnerships with leading ASP providers in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and North America.
July 17, 2000 PeopleSoft Manufacturing - This Time For Sure?! PeopleSoft claims that its next major release, PeopleSoft 8, which is due in a few weeks time, will allay persistent perceptions that PeopleSoft is still not a full-fledged player in manufacturing.
July 17, 2000 Logility Collaborative Planning Solutions Offer Sound Proposition Collaborative planning for businesses carries great potential for reducing the hidden costs that inevitably result from poor planning and limited visibility among trading partners. With new OEM partner Great Plains, Logility has made a good move in targeting this growing area and organizing its applications around the collaborative aspects.
July 14, 2000 NetWare for Small Business – NetWhy? Remember Novell? They’re a small Utah company that makes network software called NetWare, now aimed at small businesses. Sounds familiar?
July 14, 2000 A Sharp ASP Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas has selected Harbinger as their Application Service Provider of choice. The multi-year contract will allow Harbinger to integrate e-Procurement and business applications across Sharp's e-Supplier community.
July 14, 2000 Oracle Proud To Be Number Two Being number two in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software market is becoming a coveted prize for old guard ERP vendors.
July 13, 2000 Ariba Goes Direct To (And From) The Source Ariba will extend the capabilities of its B2B Commerce Platform by providing capabilities for buyers and sellers of direct and indirect materials to negotiate, trade and collaborate.
July 13, 2000 Active Voice’s Unity ~ In Pursuit of the Perfect Unified Messaging Solution Throughout the past seventeen years Active Voice has enjoyed considerable growth and success developing Unified Messaging solutions for major collaborative messaging servers such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
July 13, 2000 Let Your Hard Drives Tell You Where they Are! Dogs, books, dolphins, and khakis are all being tracked. What about those hard drives at Los Alamos?
July 13, 2000 New Storage Array from Sun Sun has launched an attempt to break into the ranks of large-scale and enterprise storage system vendors like EMC, IBM, and Compaq.
July 12, 2000 E&Y Spins-Off eSecurity Online and Unveils Security Vulnerability Assessment Services In an effort to assist corporations in preventing security related losses, Ernst & Young announced that it is spinning off a new online security venture. The new venture's lead product line is their <I>Security Vulnerability Assessment</I> service.
July 12, 2000 Compaq to Open Tru64 Unix? In what may be an attempt to cash in on the open source OS game, Compaq is hinting it may open some parts of the source code for its Tru64 Unix operating system.
July 12, 2000 i2 Technologies’ Latest Offering: J. D. Edwards OneWorld™ Users should welcome the prospects for better integration delivered by the new alliance but temper expectations with the realization that it may be merely a political move.
July 11, 2000 Intraware Acquires Janus for its Extranets Janus Technologies gets out of the (IT glass) house, hangs out at the eStorefront, and finds a new soulmate. Best of all, the company has a good chance to have a date with Commerce One. Sounds like a good idea to us.
July 11, 2000 Lucent Receives Engineering Award in Unified Messaging The award is in recognition for not only the advanced integration capabilities with the Exchange platform but also for innovation in bundling hardware, software, and support under one contract.
July 11, 2000 Fill 'er Up, Check the Battery and Sell Me an iMac Ten Square will be delivering digital content to a gasoline pump near you. And that’s only the beginning.
July 11, 2000 Technology Project Selection and Management in Community Banks The way a bank selects, implements, and monitors a technological product significantly contributes to the final effect on the bank's environment.
July 10, 2000 Digital Signatures Good from Arctic to Rio Grande The U. S. Congress passed a bill making digital signatures legal in commerce. Canada's provinces are in the midst of taking the same action
July 10, 2000 CPortals Technologies Aims for the Middle CPortals Technologies has based their CPortals Integration Suite on the InteBroker product on the assumptions that businesses, particularly in the e-commerce space, will have to re-invent themselves regularly, and that reducing complexity in the solution is a key to success. InteBroker is designed to provide message brokering via publish/subscribe and store & forward messaging technologies.
July 10, 2000 SAP to Become Leaner, Meaner and More Organized SAP is reportedly planning a radical revamp of its software development operations in an effort to regain dominance of the North American business software market.
July 10, 2000 The RIM 957 ~ Probably Your Next Pager (and a Whole Lot More.) RIM’s primary focus is wireless e-mail, which has evolved into a mission critical application for most users over the past several years, leading to tremendous success for RIM’s 850 and 950 versions of their wireless Blackberry e-mail device line.
July 7, 2000 Dell and Red Hat Form Alliance Dell and Red Hat have tightened their relationship, announcing new initiatives for products and services/support.
July 7, 2000 ASP Infrastructure: The Party Has Started On June 14th, Nortel Networks unveiled their Comprehensive Service Management Solution for the ASP Market. They've assembled an interesting portfolio of applications designed to support Application Service Providers.
July 7, 2000 J. D. Edwards FOCUSes on Active Supply Chain With co-founder McVaney once again at the helm, J. D. Edwards flexed its new supply chain management capabilities at FOCUS 2000 in Denver.
July 7, 2000 Enterprise Messaging Evaluation and Procurement Audio Transcript This is a transcript of an audio conference on Enterprise Messaging Evaluation and Procurement presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation used the TEC patented selection engine <b>WebTESS</b> to conduct a live real time evaluation and selection. It then reviewed the critical differentiating messaging criteria, as well as detailed comparisons of competing vendors such as Microsoft, Lotus, and Novell.
July 6, 2000 To BEA or Not to BEA: Is That the Question? BEA Systems Inc., announced that twelve Business-To-Business and Enterprise Application Integration vendors have teamed with them to provide e-business solutions, as members of their BEA Professional Service Provider Program. These new providers span the United States and the EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) markets, and will leverage their vertical market and e-business expertise to implement the BEA eLink™ suite.
July 6, 2000 With Record Revenues, AXENT Puts Down a Solid Fist Cybercrime and information security attacks are not going to go away. AXENT's three protection products, Intruder Alert, Raptor Firewall, and NetProwler contain the most fundamental security protection products that any aspiring Internet company should include in their IT strategy - network based intrusion detection, host based intrusion detection, and an enterprise hybrid firewall.
July 6, 2000 Fenestrae Offers WAP Support for Mobile Data Server Mobile Data Server 2.0 (MDS) allows access via WAP to a company’s Intranet, Microsoft Back Office databases, such as SQL Server in addition to Microsoft Exchange Integration for messaging.
July 6, 2000 At Least It Hasn’t Been Renamed Linux 2001 Linus Torvalds and the Linux community released another test version of the Linux 2.4 kernel in late May, 2000. New features are delaying this version which was originally scheduled for October 1999.
July 5, 2000 Infinium Software, Inc.: Having All the Right Cards? Following the market trends, Infinium has recently made an energetic push into a number of prospective areas such as: Web-enablement and self-service product capabilities, business intelligence, CRM, and application hosting (ASP) services. Infinium has only very recently announced its strategic partnership with elcom.com regarding e-commerce and vertical marketplaces, which will additionally burden products integration workload.
July 5, 2000 NAI Will Pay Trend $12.5 Million Resulting from Law Suit Settling a patent dispute out of court, Network Associates agreed to pay Trend Micro $12.5 million for the cost of licensing Trend's patented technologies. Both companies claim to be the innovator of scanning for viruses in electronic mail.
July 5, 2000 SAP Gives Up, Declares Victory. Again. Commerce One and SAP announced that Commerce One will supply the marketplace infrastructure behind the mySAP portal.
July 5, 2000 Access Commerce Spices Up North American CRM Fray In May, Access Commerce, a French CRM vendor, announced the opening of its first USA office in San Diego, California. During Explore 2000, QAD’s annual user conference, Access Commerce announced the release of eCameleon for MFG/PRO.

 
June 2000
June 30, 2000 Intel 820 Chipset Delays Again, Again, Again… Intel has announced further delays in its next generation of entry-level processors, once again due to problems in the 820 chipset. We are shocked, we tell you, shocked, to learn of such a thing.
June 30, 2000 Informix Goes Vertical With Software Vendor ADRM Informix has announced a strategic alliance with Applied Data Resource Management (ADRM) to develop industry-specific data models to provide packaged components for business intelligence and e-business analytics.
June 30, 2000 No More Mr. Nice Guy With J.D. Edwards On May 24, J.D. Edwards & Company reported financial results for the second quarter which ended April 30, 2000. Earlier in the same week, J.D. Edwards announced a strategic restructuring aimed at reducing costs and strengthening the company’s position as 'a leading provider of software solutions for collaborative commerce'.
June 30, 2000 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Audio Conference This is a transcript of an audio conference on Enterprise Resource Planning Systems presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation used the TEC patented selection engine <b>WebTESS</b> to conduct a real time evaluation and selection. It then reviewed the critical differentiating ERP criteria, as well as detailed comparisons of the several major ERP vendors: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Baan, Intentia, System Software Associates (SSA),Geac Computers, Industrial & Financial Systems (IFS), QAD, MAPICS, Symix Systems, Great Plains, and Lawson Software.
June 29, 2000 Sub7 Tells Chat Rooms All Your Stuff; F-Secure Leads the Battle A hacker program called Sub7 will tell IRC channels all the stuff you don't want people to know.
June 29, 2000 Scient Finds That Golden Eggs Can Bite Scient’s bottom line and stock price have both suffered from two clients that ran out of funds before paying their bills. One of them was a dot-com, and it’s barely possible that it won’t be the last.
June 29, 2000 i2 To Power Best Buy Since introducing its first cavernous superstore in 1989, the Minnesota-based discount retailer has grown rapidly to over 350 stores in 39 states. The company now hopes to replicate the success of its brick-and-mortar business in cyberspace.
June 29, 2000 IFS Far Cry From Running Out of Breath In May, IFS reported results for Q1 2000. It generated revenue of $57.0 million, a 21% increase compared to a year ago. License revenue grew 73% quarter over quarter to $18.6 million, while net income was $6.0 million.
June 29, 2000 Inflation’s Demise: The Impact on Business Informa Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) business models and information systems originated in the 1970s and 1980s, an inflationary period. They addressed business priorities that were strongly influenced by inflation. Many manufacturers are now confronting worldwide price stability, or even deflationary pressure, and can
June 28, 2000 Descartes Plots A Record Course In New Millennium Waterloo, Ontario based Descartes Systems Group reported record revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 ended April 30, 2000. Focused on building its transaction-based revenue model, Descartes still finds profits out of reach.
June 28, 2000 Cobalt Releases Linux ''Clustering'' Software Cobalt Networks, Inc. becomes the latest vendor to jump on the Linux-cluster bandwagon, but does the software they’re touting really qualify as a cluster?
June 28, 2000 Mail.com to Join the Microsoft Exchange 2000 ASP GoldRush Through the "official" Microsoft Exchange agreement Mail.com hopes to increase its market share. Mail.com’s differentiator is its proprietary MailZone and FaxMailer products which allow for Fax integration and enhanced security.
June 27, 2000 E-Cash Rollout Replaces Amex Last week, adult sites were informed that Amex would no longer serve their clientele in processing online transactions. However, in the information technology sector, when one technology obstacle gets in the way, smart entrepreneurs get creative.
June 27, 2000 More Infrastructure Support for CyberCarriers Lucent NetworkCare Professional Services and IBM Global Services have announced an alliance to help emerging service providers. The two organizations have teamed up to provide network based services to enterprises and consumers. Lucent is also offering their CyberCarrier Reference Architecture as a blue print for the end-to-end network.
June 27, 2000 Evoke Software Releases Axio Data Integration Product Evoke Software Corporation has announced the release of Axio™, an e-business integration product designed to web-enable multiple different data sources into a unified view of a business. The product has a very intriguing method of metadata scanning, and should have significant market impact.
June 27, 2000 Intranets: A World of Possibilities An intranet precisely built can thoroughly simplify work processes and provide a repository of all internal, electronic data. It empowers employees and reduces the waste that paper-based documents create
June 26, 2000 Wireless Palm VII ~ Look Ma No Hands! The Palm VII is a logical wireless extension of the Palm Pilot platform. The Palm VII is a data-driven device allowing access to such information as news, sports, weather, e-mail, driving directions, and yellow pages.
June 26, 2000 GSA Schedule Partnership Gets Network-1 in the Door Lyme Computer, a woman-owned 18 person consultancy specializing in setting strategic IT agendas and implementation services for Federal Agenices, partners with publicly traded intrusion detection vendor in a gold security partner alliance.
June 26, 2000 It Takes More Than a Fast CPU to Rule the Web Compaq Computer Corporation, desperate to get some kind of high-end UNIX benefit from its ill-conceived acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp., has announced its massive, 32-CPU capable GS series of Alpha systems. But, as was the case with Digital, Compaq marketing seems overly concerned with CPU - not system - performance.
June 26, 2000 Peregrine Exits Quiet Period Making Noise Emerging from the quiet period after announcing its merger with Harbinger, Peregrine makes up for lost time with a trio of announcements related to its asset management solutions.
June 23, 2000 Infinium and Elcom Walk Down ASP Aisle Two companies that are redefining themselves for an ASP future enter into a partnership. Elcom’s eProcurement applications will be the first outsider in Infinium’s new eBusiness unit.
June 23, 2000 Compaq’s 'Photon' Comes into the Light After much anticipation, Compaq’s version of a 1U-high (one 'rack unit') server is finally ready to ship.
June 23, 2000 IBM to Demo Crusoe-based Notebook At the upcoming PC Expo, IBM is planning to provide a technology demonstration - a ThinkPad notebook computer designed around Transmeta’s Crusoe microprocessor.
June 23, 2000 Vignette of an EAI Vendor (So to Speak) Vignette Corporation has announced a comprehensive, three-tiered Java™ technology strategy that encompasses tools, applications and a complete Java technology-enabled platform. The Vignette V/5 e-business platform will support Java Server Pages (JSP’s) and was announced at Sun Microsystems 2000 Worldwide Java Developer Conference.
June 23, 2000 Supply Chain Management Audio Conference Transcript This is a transcript of an audio conference on Supply Chain Management presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation used the TEC patented selection engine WebTESS, to conduct a live real time evaluation and selection. It then reviewed the critical differentiating supply chain management criteria, as well as detailed comparisons of i2 Technologies, Manugistics, Aspen Technology, Logility, and Adexa.
June 22, 2000 AspenTech Completes Another Piece of the Refining Puzzle With Petrolsoft Aspen Technology recently acquired Petrolsoft Corporation, a maker of software for downstream refining distribution and replenishment.
June 22, 2000 ROI Systems, Inc.: Will Slow and Steady Remain in the Race? Over past two decades, ROI Systems has shown the commitment to deliver solid discrete manufacturing functionality and superior customer support, with modest growth and cautious new technology introduction as a consequence. Owing to its slow growth, ROI has achieved a small market presence in general and insignificant global brand awareness, an undeveloped channel outside of the North American market.
June 22, 2000 United Messaging Extends Global Reach ~ Opens Offices in London and Amsterdam Having opened offices in both London and Amsterdam United Messaging is well on its way to securing a strong foothold in the messaging Application Service Provider (ASP) industry.
June 22, 2000 Viador Teams With Business Objects Viador Inc.&#153; announced it has completed the initial integration of Business Objects client/server and web-based products into the Viador E-Portal Suite&#153;. Viador is expected to supply the ability to create personalized 'portlets', via their customization API’s, and Business Objects will supply their InfoView open portal initiative for business intelligence.
June 21, 2000 What’s New in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 2000, the next major release of SQL Server 7, is Microsoft’s SQL 7 release of its database both re-architected and re-written. Microsoft has high hopes for the latest version in a market that was worth $8 Billion in 1999, an 18% increase over 1998. What remains to be seen is whether it will attract customers not already using SQL Server.
June 21, 2000 IBM Continues RS/6000 Performance Focus IBM has just released benchmark results for its mid-range Unix server, the RS/6000 M80, showing it to be a top performer in transaction processing and Web serving.
June 21, 2000 HK Systems Gives Birth To Software Company, irista™ The launch of irista mimics a trend among supply chain management vendors to achieve a higher profile for their products amid a multitude of competitive offerings.
June 21, 2000 Baan Yet Another ERP Vendor to Find a Sanctuary Under Invensys’ Wing On June 1, languishing Dutch ERP vendor The Baan Company finally found a 'knight in shining armor'. British automation equipment maker Invensys has agreed to pay $2.65 per share for Baan. The deal is valued at approximately $709 million.
June 21, 2000 Standard & Poor's Exposes Customers' Security Due to security vulnerabilities in Standard & Poor's Comstock product, their customer sites throughout the world have been exposed to extensive security holes.
June 20, 2000 The AS/400 Takes You Securely Where You Want to Go This article on the built-in security features of the AS/400 system originally appeared in the Midrange Computing’s Showcase Magazine, June 2000.
June 20, 2000 Los Alamos Loses Top-Secret Information, Again! Another security compromise occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratories last month when two hard drives containing top-secret nuclear information disappeared. The security mistakes that are being made at Los Alamos are sloppy and unacceptable.
June 20, 2000 Microsoft Readies Win2K Datacenter for Defeaturing Microsoft has started telling the world that the Datacenter version of Windows 2000 will not only be delayed, but also is not yet scaling up to 32-processor capability as has been promised.
June 20, 2000 MAPICS Red Ink Stained While Extending Its Offering In May MAPICS Inc. announced the controlled delivery of the Point.Man Extended Enterprise Edition. Earlier, on May 4, MAPICS Inc. reported results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2000.
June 19, 2000 Multi-mode ADSL Heads for the Mountain Copper Mountain debuts a Multi-mode Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) line card. This line card will deliver voice and data service simultaneously over a standard plain old telephone service (POTS) line.
June 19, 2000 IBM’s Newest NUMA-Q Server to Handle 64 Intel CPUs IBM announced its latest NUMA-Q server, the E410. Its ability to house up to 64 Intel CPUs represents a doubling of the “largest” current system, the ES7000 from Unisys, and an eight-times increase over the largest current mainstream Intel offerings from Compaq, Dell, and HP.
June 19, 2000 Applix Still Shows a Presence in the OLAP Market Applix Inc. has announced an agreement with Pelephone, Israel's second largest cellular network and handset supplier, to deliver its real-time, multi-dimensional On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) solution, iTM1 to analyze customer profiles for over 1.2 million Pelephone subscribers.
June 16, 2000 BroadVision and Bank of America Erect Enterprise as Portal Purveyors BroadVision and Bank of America will create a new company to develop customized corporate portals. Hewlett-Packard and Amadeus will provide products and services to the new company and be its second and third customers.
June 16, 2000 Do You Know Where Your Wheelchair Is? Transportation companies have installed GPS locating devices on trucks to monitor location and delivery information. Now a similar technology is helping hospitals locate equipment within their walls. GE Medical Systems has formed a strategic alliance with PinPoint Corporation to offer asset tracking services to health care facilities.
June 16, 2000 Caldera eDesktop Edges Out Microsoft Windows 2000 in Functionality – Part III In this article, we examine capabilities of five top Supply Chain Management software vendors in several key areas of functionality: material procurement planning, manufacturing planning and scheduling, distribution and transportation management, and inventory management and warehousing.
June 16, 2000 Cisco’s Complete Network in a Box Cisco has extended its Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated Data (AVVID) to the mid-sized market. Cisco has introduced the new LAN switching solution containing the Catalyst 3524-PWR-XL and upgraded software functionality for the Catalyst 3500 and 2900 series XL desktop switches.
June 16, 2000 What Good Is Information If Nobody Sees It? Keeping detailed historical information is a great idea in theory, but how can it be merged with current data to enable split-second decisions? Two companies partner to solve a significant problem in e-commerce.
June 15, 2000 Caldera eDesktop Edges Out Microsoft Windows 2000 in Functionality – Part II TechnologyEvaluation.com has completed its analysis of the innate functionality of three desktop operating systems – Microsoft Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.2, and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. The winner is Caldera.
June 15, 2000 IA-64 Linux From Red Hat Red Hat announces the availability of the source code for IA-64 platforms, the first of which will be Intel’s “Itanium” processor, due later this year.
June 15, 2000 Trend Micro Steps into PDA/Wireless AntiVirus Information Market In crisis situations, Trend Micro's Virus Information Center for the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) may prove indispensable for a network administrator and/or manager on the go.
June 15, 2000 Manugistics To Help Amazon.com In Global Expansion In partnering with Manugistics, Amazon acknowledges the impact that uncontrolled transportation costs have on its business. Its move should embolden smaller Internet retailers to seek help in cutting costs and capturing elusive profits.
June 15, 2000 Intentia’s Growing Pains In May Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intentia International AB announced a strategic alliance. Earlier, in April, Intentia reported results of its first quarter in 2000.
June 14, 2000 After Strong Game, Logility Suffers Fourth Quarter Loss Despite a strong year in which Logility restored its license revenue, the company expects to close out the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000 with a net loss.
June 14, 2000 Caldera eDesktop Edges Out Microsoft Windows 2000 in Functionality – Part I TechnologyEvaluation.com has completed its analysis of the innate functionality of three desktop operating systems – Microsoft Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.2, and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. The winner is Caldera.
June 14, 2000 Novell Releases (Yet Another) Internet Messaging System The only plausible reason to utilize a Novell Internet Messaging system is if you have NDS running internally, and even then it’s a big if, as Novell continues to lose market share in all major areas.
June 14, 2000 Remedy Plots A Course To Travel And Expense Capabilities Remedy further extends the capabilities of its self-service e-procurement application with Necho’s travel and entertainment expense product.
June 13, 2000 New Plan, 13% Layoffs, Mark Concur’s Third Quarter Disappointment Concur Technologies announced its expected Q2 revenues. Its reaction to the inevitable disappointment has been more than trimming – plastic surgery might be a better description.
June 13, 2000 Gateway & AOL Follow Crusoe’s Footprints Gateway & AOL have selected Transmeta’s Crusoe processors for its next generation of Internet access appliances, which we’re calling “iPliances.” Some of them may even be ready for prime time this year. Is the market ready for them?
June 13, 2000 Ross Systems’ Renaissance Yet to Happen In April Ross Systems, Inc., a supplier of enterprise systems, announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2000. In May Ross Systems’ announced its Chairman and CEO, Dennis Vohs will retire as CEO at the end of the company’s fiscal year on June 30, 2000.
June 13, 2000 Information Builders Announces New Release of WebFOCUS Information Builders Inc., (IBI) has released a new suite of business intelligence tools designed to support e-business. Release 4.3 of the product has been re-engineered and enabled for wireless and XML, in addition to integration with Microsoft Office 2000 and BackOffice 2000. Announced at their Summit 2000 User Conference, IBI hopes the product will appeal to non-technical users of business intelligence technologies.
June 13, 2000 Question: When is Six Sigma not Six Sigma?
Answer: When it's the Six Sigma Metric!!© Six Sigma Quality is a popular approach to process improvement, particularly among technology driven companies such as Allied Signal, General Electric, Kodak and Texas Instruments. Its objective is to reduce output variability through process improvement, and/or to increase customer specification limits through design for producibility. I don't like the Six Sigma metric. As you'll see, it fails to pass many of the empirical tests for "good" metrics. In particular, it's neither simple to understand nor, in most applications, an effective proxy for customer satisfaction. And, its definition is ambiguous and therefore easily gamed because th
June 12, 2000 Layer 3 or Bust Extreme Networks has once again seized the number one position in Layer 3 Ports shipped for the first quarter of 2000.
June 12, 2000 Bezos to McNealy: Drop Dead! The first runner up for Amazon.com’s infrastructure business is… Sun Microsystems. Amazon, led by Jeff Bezos, has given the nod to Hewlett Packard. The win comes on the heels of a speech by Sun CEO Scott McNealy, where he called HP “pathetic”. Looks like Sun is left to wail and gnash its teeth.
June 12, 2000 Ariba Gains Legs Courtesy of Descartes A new alliance places Ariba with Internet logistics solutions vendor Descartes Systems Group to help Internet businesses deliver the goods.
June 12, 2000 Microsoft Tech Ed 2000 Win2K Attendee Network Fails Miserably While sitting at one Windows 2000 desktop we waited a solid five minutes just to complete the logon process only to find that the wide area network speeds and feeds were so poor as to make the entire process pointless.
June 12, 2000 CryptoSwift Takes Rainbow Revenues Up 620% Rainbow Technologies' revenue for its Internet Performance and Security division is up 620% from last year. This increase is due primarily to revenues brought in by its CryptoSwift product line.
June 12, 2000 Eppraisals.com Gives Lante High Marks E-business service provider Lante Corporation meets a tight schedule and builds a complicated website to help launch eppraisals.com.
June 9, 2000 Secure in a Foundry Foundry Networks™, Inc. announced that they would be incorporating Secure Shell (SSH) Technology for free in all of its high-performance switching devices. That’s right! Foundry Networks has just made every Network Manager’s dream come true.
June 9, 2000 IBM Loads Linux on Mainframes IBM has announced that it will now provide Linux support and services for its largest machines, the S/390 Series of mainframes/servers.
June 9, 2000 MessageClick to Provide Unified Messaging to RCN’s Business Clients RCN has teamed up with MessageClick to provide its business-based users a complete suite of Unified Messaging tools including point-to-point e-mail, fax, and voice mail.
June 9, 2000 Adexa Reports Record First Quarter Results It began the quarter as Paragon Management Systems and finished it as Adexa. Now the company looks to build on its record first quarter results.
June 9, 2000 Smart Shoppers Go Abroad for Affordable Information Security Programs Ernest Hemingway said, "If you want to meet interesting people you have to go to interesting places." Graduate programs in cryptography and information security in the U.S. have exorbitant tuition costs. Universities overseas and in Canada are much more affordable. Be a smart shopper and look at the International alternatives before signing a huge loan for an advanced degree in information security or cryptography in the United States.
June 8, 2000 Anti-Virus Advisories: Rating Them The recent ILOVEYOU worm, was the most widely spread virus or worm reported as of yet. With so many anti-virus vendors to choose from, which one should you select? The three selection components are: the advisory, the anti-virus tool itself, and the price. This note takes a look at the advisories, and ranks them according to usability.
June 8, 2000 MicronPC.com, or, “Where Are They Now?” Micron Electronics, Inc. has been trumpeting its retail partnership with Best Buy as it watches its PC sales ebb away. Too little, too late?
June 8, 2000 Qwest Cyber.Solutions: “A Number 3 Please, and Make It Grande” Qwest Cyber.Solutions unveiled a new product portfolio for sector specific ASP solutions. The QCS Enterprise Freedom™ product suite is designed to offer flexible, fast, reliable platform solutions. The company has packaged their ASP products, to serve as the foundation for solutions offered to the finance, communications, healthcare and services sectors.
June 8, 2000 IBM’s Marketplace Solutions: Is Ariba Not Enough? IBM trains its sights on helping businesses create online marketplaces. But, we ask our staff prognosticator, isn’t that what partner Ariba does?
June 8, 2000 Epicor Continues To Bleed On April 27, Epicor Software Corporation reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000. Net loss for the quarter was $8.9 million or $0.22 per share, compared with a net income for the same period last year of $2.1 million or $0.05 per share.
June 7, 2000 Case Study: Service Provider Xcelerate Speeds CommerceScout Along New Trail B2B cross-marketplace creator and dot-com start-up CommerceScout not only received implementation assistance from e-business service provider Xcelerate, but they also helped CommerceScout define the business model and market opportunity.
June 7, 2000 Mirapoint Adds Web-Mail Client to Messaging Appliance Line Given that the SP can host well over 200,000 mailboxes, the cost of the WebMail Direct option is minimized to approximately .16 cents a mailbox (bringing the total cost of a mailbox, including hardware to just shy of .80 cents (US).
June 7, 2000 webMethods Gets Active (Software That Is) In May webMethods Inc. announced that it will purchase Active Software Inc. in an all-stock deal. The purchase is worth approximately $1.3 Billion. WebMethods is a vendor of B2B e-commerce integration software, and the acquisition of Active allows them to extend their integration strategy for extended supply chain and business-to-business e-commerce.
June 7, 2000 Symix Systems’ Slips Into Red During Its E-Commerce Transition On April 20, Symix Systems, Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended March 31, 2000. The operating loss is attributed to the Company's continuing investment in its e-business operations, and the delayed rebound of the traditional enterprise systems market following the Y2K-caused slowdown.
June 7, 2000 They Test Web Sites, Don’t They? RSW Software upgrades one product and releases a second. The products enable companies to test the function and load carrying capability of websites and middle tier applications.
June 6, 2000 The Arrow Now Points To Cisco Cisco Systems’ announced acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications Inc., strengthens its content switching Internet products.
June 6, 2000 SurfAid is Not Enough: IBM Partners with WebCriteria IBM is partnering with WebCriteria to make it possible for users of its SurfAid traffic analysis package to use the WebCriteria product for improved analysis of the customer experience.
June 6, 2000 Network Appliance to Ship Sub-$10K Caching Hardware Network Appliance, the current Web caching market leader, announced its first under-$10,000 caching appliance.
June 6, 2000 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Security You know your organization needs to be proactive about security, but you don't know what that means. You’re a busy executive and you need your security agenda summed up in a nutshell, but you know nothing about information security. What "to do" list should you give your CIO?
June 5, 2000 1 Little GB, 2 Little GB, ..., 10 Little Gigabit The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance announced that its membership has increased to over 50 companies in less than three months.
June 5, 2000 i2 Technologies Gets Reporting Help From Hyperion i2’s decision to integrate Hyperion Essbase into its TradeMatrix™ applications is a welcome event for users.
June 5, 2000 Fischer’s Prio! SecureSync ~ A Solution to Enterprise Directory Chaos Prio! SecureSync combines the proven technologies of Fischer Systems and Siemens, providing over 18 years of combined directory synchronization and management experience. The flexibility and interoperability of the product have certainly captured the industries attention in bringing order to ‘directory chaos’, thereby allowing an always up to date, synchronized, disparate directory computing environment.
June 5, 2000 Advertising Continues to be Growth Business The quarterly report on advertising trends from AdKnowledge eAnalytics shows that there are more places than ever to advertise, and that the cost of advertising hasn’t dropped. The study also suggests that advertising is more valuable than it was ever thought to be.
June 5, 2000 Compaq Reorganizes Again “When in trouble, when in doubt: Run in circles! Scream and shout”. And reorganize.
June 2, 2000 Dell Tops in Customer Satisfaction Compaq rises, IBM falls, but Dell remains master of the desktop domain.
June 2, 2000 Saltare.com Prepares LEAP Into B2B Fray Saltare.com offers a sound value proposition for companies who want to manage important events in their supply chains in real-time.
June 2, 2000 Sagent Technology Teams for Telco e-Business Sagent Technology has announced a new vertical application for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) e-commerce. They have partnered with DSET to use Sagent’s spatial analysis and real-time geographical data access to determine a customer’s qualification for DSL service.
June 2, 2000 The Empires Strike Back - Part II: The Likes Of IBM, EDS, And CSC In E-Business In the past year the traditional consulting houses have executed major initiatives to counter the challenges of the pure play and fringe market invaders. Being big doesn't mean being slow, as these Behemoths have demonstrated – once they tuned in to the new market realities.
June 1, 2000 EarthLink’s Pilot of Wireless Email via BlackBerry Handhelds The initial Pilot test of the BlackBerry Handheld e-mail device will be limited to 500 users for a cost of $34.95 (USD) per month, including unlimited messaging and the lease cost of the wireless device.
June 1, 2000 Intel Faces 820 Chipset Problems (Again) In the latest round of setbacks to beset Intel’s performance-oriented 820 chipset, the manufacturer announces a recall of nearly a million motherboards shipped in 1999 & 2000.
June 1, 2000 The Empires Strike Back - Part I: The Big Guys Spin On A Dime In the past year the traditional consulting houses have executed major initiatives to counter the challenges of the pure play and fringe market invaders. Being big doesn't mean being slow, as these behemoths have demonstrated – once they tuned in to the new market realities.
June 1, 2000 EAI Vendor Active Software Activates Transactions Active Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise application integration software products, today announced the ActiveWorks™ Application Transaction Coordinator (ATC) to ensure the transactional integrity of end-to end business processes across systems, both within and outside the corporate firewall.
June 1, 2000 Should PeopleSoft be Overly Happy? PeopleSoft announced financial results and major highlights for the quarter ended March 31.

 
May 2000
May 31, 2000 Intel Small Server Market Who are the key players in the market segment of Intel small servers? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each, and when is one more appropriate than another?
May 31, 2000 Antidisintermediation The mantra of most e-commerce ventures is usually “Change the way that business is done.” eSprocket thinks that the way business is done is just fine, thank you. Their goal is to enable instead of replace.
May 31, 2000 SAP Gives in to CRM (Part Time) Matrimony On May 2, SAP AG, the leading provider of enterprise software applications, announced a strategic alliance with Nortel Networks to develop and integrate industry-specific CRM solutions.
May 31, 2000 BMC Software Webs for the DBA BMC Software, (NASDAQ: BMCS), has released a new product called Web DBA, designed to provide what they refer to as “application service assurance™”. The product is still in beta, and currently only supports Oracle, and is available for download and trial over the web.
May 31, 2000 Breakaway, MoveOver Or Stand In Line Breakaway Solutions has recently announced its partnership with leading technology providers to deliver its MarketMover program. The new platform solution is designed to foster the rapid launch of online B2B marketplaces.
May 31, 2000 Microsoft Delays NGWS Conference, Windows Chief Takes “Vacation” Forum 2000, Microsoft’s conference where it will unveil details of its Next Generation Windows Services, has been delayed three weeks. This is the latest development in a week that has seen yet another high-level staff departure, and yet another adverse development in the U.S. antitrust case. What’s next, a plague of locusts?
May 30, 2000 ChemicalsWorld.com Debuts On The Web ChemicalsWorld.com, a new Internet marketplace offering value-added services for users in the chemicals industry makes its debut.
May 30, 2000 Business Objects Objects Again In a repeat of the Brio lawsuit of 1999, Business Objects has now sued Cognos over a U.S. patent that Business Objects holds for a query technology. Cognos says the suit is “invalid and unenforceable”, but it cost Brio $10 million.
May 30, 2000 E&Y+ASP=BSP: It’s Not Algebra, But It Adds Up To Something Big In April, Ernst & Young LLP and Corio, entered into a strategic alliance where Ernst & Young will implement and market hosted solutions from Corio, and will offer business process outsourcing services. The companies will offer total enterprise management solutions for a wide range of core business functions such as e-commerce, procurement, manufacturing, customer support, finance, accounting, and human resources.
May 30, 2000 Just One Hop Away From San Jose Cisco Systems, Inc. has acquired a Manufacturing Facility in New Hampshire.
May 30, 2000 Adexa Prepares To Step Into The Spotlight From its roots in advanced planning and scheduling, Adexa, Inc. has emerged as a strong player in the business-to-business collaboration software market. With an aggressive marketing campaign and potential public offering, the company hopes to end its toil behind the scenes and take center stage.
May 26, 2000 Abandon All Insecurity, Ye Who Enter Here Commerce One will add Netegrity’s secure portal management solution to its offerings. This will add a wide range of access control mechanisms, personalization capabilities and single login for customers.
May 26, 2000 HP “Medals” In U.S. PC Olympics In the U.S. desktop PC market, Hewlett Packard and Gateway have been closely embroiled for the #3 position in the market. This trend will not continue. TEC forecasts a widening lead for HP throughout 2000.
May 26, 2000 Microsoft Windows Services For Unix – SFU = DOA? Microsoft is about to start charging US$149 for its limited collection of Unix-compatible utilities for Windows NT/2000 clients. We forecast a minimal market for this product.
May 26, 2000 eBay Looking For Sun Block? The now-infamous 1999 shutdowns of the eBay website has led them to consider alternatives to their current Sun infrastructure.
May 26, 2000 Will Solomon Finally Satisfy Great Plains’ Insatiable Appetite? Great Plains announced it intends to significantly expand its mid market e-business community through the acquisition of Solomon Software, its direct competitor. The combined company will have more than 130,000 customers, 2,200 team members and a worldwide network of 2,000 channel partners.
May 25, 2000 Acta Gets Active Active Software, Inc. a provider of e-business infrastructure software products, and Acta Technology, Inc., an extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced a partnership that will help to enable real-time business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce.
May 25, 2000 Does Someone You Never Ever Heard Of Hold The Keys To The E-Commerce Kingdom? A company virtually unknown outside of the hospitality sector hits the ground running with a product, a marketplace, and a business model that might make some of the better-known e-procurement companies sit up and take notice.
May 25, 2000 Extreme Networks BlackDiamond Product of the Year Network Magazine announced that Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 6800 was the Enterprise Backbone Device of the year.
May 25, 2000 Baan Sinks Deeper into Red Quicksand On May 3, analysts suggested that Dutch business applications maker Baan faces a takeover bid or a break-up, after the latest tumble in the troubled firm's stock price. Earlier, on April 20, the struggling vendor reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss, with a first-quarter figure worse than a year ago despite gains from divestments.
May 25, 2000 Commerce One: Everything but Profits Commerce One is a household name because of its strong growth and its focus on the global marketplace. It now has to decide how to respond to the recent Ariba/i2/IBM partnership and whether the time is coming to begin showing earnings.
May 24, 2000 IBM’s NetVista Joins the Appliance PC Fray IBM debuts an extremely competitive business network appliance with its new NetVista PCs. Now if it can just fix that direct Web site...
May 24, 2000 Spring Brings New Growth To Manhattan Associates Good execution in the wake of Y2K brings record revenue and earnings for Manhattan Associates in its first quarter.
May 24, 2000 Do We Already Know Whether You’re Going To Read This Article? SLP InfoWare announced a product that can predict which of an ISP’s customers are likely to leave.
May 24, 2000 AVT, Sphere and Marconi Debut Latest IP Telephony Unified Messaging Solution The integration of Sphere’s product Sphericall.ems with AVT’s CallXpress provides flexibility and added functionality to increase productivity within organizations.
May 23, 2000 Top 10 Excuses For Not Securing Your Website or Network With so many sites lacking security, we have put together a list of the leading reasons why businesses and organizations are unable to secure their network. Don't let your IT department fall victim to unprecedented security breaches. Accept no excuses.
May 23, 2000 100 Million Reasons To Be An ASP Interpath received $100 million equity investment in spin-off deal between Bain Capital and CP&L — Bain Capital and Carolina Power & Light each invest $50 million; Bain takes ownership and CP&L retains minority stake in the full-service ASP
May 23, 2000 New Partnerships Add to Remedy’s E-Procurement Strengths Remedy addresses both catalog competence and channel capabilities with a pair of procurement partnerships.
May 23, 2000 AMD Server Plans De-Railed HotRail has discontinued development of the chipset AMD planned to use to break into the multiprocessor server market.
May 23, 2000 Parametric Technology Chills Out With Windchill Info*Engine V4 Parametric Technology Corporation purchased Enterprise Application Integration vendor Auxilium within the last year, and has now announced the release of Auxilium’s Info*Engine EAI product, release 4.0. The product is said to provide a platform for “collaborative product commerce”.
May 22, 2000 Net Woes for NetWare Novell warned financial analysts of lower-than-expected revenues for the second quarter of 2000, as sales declined. This doesn’t bode well for NetWare.
May 22, 2000 It’s About Time “Legal” Got Involved On May 16th, a press release surfaced describing a new ASP (Application Service Provider) serving the legal industry. Trouble is, the new company’s website lacks fundamental information… Like who they are.
May 22, 2000 QAD Explores E-Business While Not Abandoning ERP QAD, one of the leading ERP vendors, announced a number of product and alliance initiatives prior to or during Explore 2000, its annual user conference that took place in Nashville, TN from May 15 to May 17. We express our view regarding its latest announcements and strategic direction.
May 22, 2000 FolloWAP Launches iFollow – Gee Wiz Bang! Wireless Instant Messaging! We recommend that wireless users hold off from establishing an account with the iFollow service, until such a time as the service has proven to be reliably interoperable. If it does, jump on board!
May 22, 2000 Informix XML’s Its Metadata Transport Layer Informix® Corporation, has announced an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport (ETT) of metadata. The DTD is designed to allow metadata sharing between different vendors’ products using the open XML standard.
May 22, 2000 An E-Commerce Company That Can Pay The Bills Concur Technologies added a module that handles miscellaneous payment requests to its eWorkplace suite. It seems like a small thing, but handling all those little expense reports adds up to a big one.
May 19, 2000 Ernst & Young Leads Big 5 in Security Announcing an upgrade to its online security portal, Ernst & Young, takes the lead in big 5 security services.
May 19, 2000 IBM Taking on Sun in Web Infrastructure? IBM has decided to take on Sun in the Internet infrastructure arena. What do they bring to the table? And who will win the war of words?
May 19, 2000 Catalyst Emerges Strong in 2000 Though Catalyst should be encouraged by its first quarter report card, the results do not yet indicate substantial growth in its business, an effect Catalyst hopes to achieve largely through its partnership with SAP.
May 19, 2000 Hold Onto Your WAPs, Here Come the Apps! Due to the seemingly certain global standardization on the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP), Short Message Service (SMS) and the addition of Wireless Markup Language (WML) software vendors are quickly porting applications to service wireless access users.
May 19, 2000 Oracle Corporation: Flying High for Being Jack-of-All-Trades and Master of Some Database and enterprise application vendor Oracle has streamlined itself, overcome the hardships of the past and seems prepared and eager for the future. We express our view regarding its latest announcements.
May 18, 2000 Cisco to Become a Player in the DWDM With the explosion in Metropolitan Area Network world, Cisco has decided to throw its hat into the ring with the Cisco Metro 1500 series. This Dense-Wavelength Division Multiplexing product line will lead to the enhancement of high-bandwidth applications.
May 18, 2000 E-Procurement in What Language? PeopleSoft recently announced general availability of eProcurement 2.0. The latest release touts multi-language and multi-currency capabilities powered by XML and wrapped in an easy-to-use interface.
May 18, 2000 Lawson Software’s CRM and ASP Moves – Wise, Bold, Injudicious, Enforced, or Something Else? Two recent moves by Lawson Software have stunned the market: 1) it discontinued its in-house CRM development in favor for partnering with Siebel Systems, and 2) it announced the intention to deliver its product also via 3rd-party Application Service Providers (ASPs). We express our views in this regard.
May 18, 2000 6 Days After Advisory Posted, AboveNet Gets Hit Once a security advisory gets posted, vendors need to work quickly to rectify the problem. Security engineers are not the only ones reading the advisories. There are cybercriminals who wait for advisories to come out, and take advantage of woe-be-gone networks that have not yet been patched.
May 18, 2000 iVita Mines Assets for Bottom Line Health iVita proposes to improve corporate knowledge of the value (and location) of all assets. This will enable companies to manage assets like cash. The first question iVita asks is, “What’s an asset?”
May 17, 2000 Is SAP Stumbling? Perhaps. Business applications market leader SAP reported a 43% drop in net income for its first quarter ended March 31, despite a 10% increase in revenue. In a separate announcement, SAP also said that Kevin McKay, head of SAP's U.S. operations, has resigned for personal reasons.
May 17, 2000 i2 Enlists Honeywell in Process Industry Play i2 Technologies will join forces with process control system maker Honeywell in a bid to expand its presence in the energy, chemicals, and pharmaceutical industries.
May 17, 2000 Napster Cooks up Soup-to-Gnutella Network Management Challenges Recent legal actions against online MP3 search services suggest U.S. businesses may be liable for not restricting programs like Napster and Gnutella on their networks
May 17, 2000 HP DeskJet, LaserJet, PhotoSmart, OmniBook, Jornada, Business Desktop PC and JetDirect Divisions to Support Bluetooth HP is leading the way by taking action and implementing Bluetooth technology into a wide array of product offerings.
May 17, 2000 Remedy Corporation: Poised for a Comeback? Once the toast of Wall Street, Remedy has redefined its business. With products in CRM, service management and e-procurement (and others), and propelled by something unusual – profits – the company is hoping to regain its former luster.
May 16, 2000 (XML + mySAP.com) – Spin = Status Quo SAP announced its involvement in XML-based Internet content standards initiatives, detailing its involvement with standards committees, acceptance of XML, integration with their products, the creation of an XML interface repository and a partner certification program. What does it amount to?
May 16, 2000 What is IFS Up To in the CRM Arena?! On April 12, Industrial & Financial Systems, IFS AB announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Pivotal Corporation to acquire its division Exactium Ltd. The agreement also launches a global alliance between IFS and Pivotal that will result in Pivotal's sell-side eBusiness solutions being integrated with IFS enterprise applications, which will be marketed by IFS globally.
May 16, 2000 Metadata Standards in the Marketplace – Why Do I Care? (And Where Does Godzilla Fit In?) Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact. Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly complicated.
May 16, 2000 Voice-Over-Broadband Standards on the Horizon Voice-Over Broadband standards are on the horizon. Today General Bandwidth, Inc. and Efficient Networks announced a business alliance to test interoperability between their two companies in the area of Voice-Over Broadband.
May 16, 2000 IBM’s “Shark” Eaten by EMC’s “BASS” EMC announced its latest high-end Symmetrix models, capable of scaling up to 19.2 terabytes of disk space. Perhaps they should name it the BASS (Big-Advanced Storage System, for the more refined among you), since they’re trying to sink IBM’s “Shark”.
May 15, 2000 A Firewall is Cheaper Than a Lawyer eBay's motion for a preliminary injunction to limit Bidder's Edge online auction search engine from linking to their site, may set precedents for future interstate web links. On the other hand, proper implementation of a firewall makes the whole case a moot point.
May 15, 2000 “B” Before “e” When Marketing to “C” ResponseLogic launches a personalized marketing tool based on expert systems technology. Promising to improve the bottom line of any Web business that markets to consumers, the company charges only when the product makes a valid recommendation.
May 15, 2000 Gigabit Transceivers ~ the Next Generation Broadcom Corporation announced they have developed the first transceiver to handle Gigabit Ethernet over existing Category 5 copper cabling.
May 15, 2000 Yet Another ‘Big 5 ERP’ CEO Casualty The Board of Directors of J.D. Edwards & Company has reappointed C. Edward McVaney to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Doug Massingill who resigned from the position and from the Board effective immediately.
May 15, 2000 IBM Netfinity Server Division IBM’s Intel-based Netfinity servers currently hold third place in the server wars with Dell and Compaq. What are their chances for improving their position?
May 12, 2000 Intel Reorganization Intel Corporation has announced a major reorganization, in an attempt to address some of the problems that have plagued it in the past year.
May 12, 2000 It’s a Portal...AND It;s a Gateway AOL has partnered with Gateway to develop a line of Internet-ready Linux desktop appliances based on the Netscape 6 browser.
May 12, 2000 Microsoft Eats its Own Dog Food With SQL Server 2000 Microsoft announced that they are running 20 critical internal systems, including their worldwide sales data warehouse, on SQL Server 2000. In the vendor world, this is referred to as “eating your own dog food”. As is the case with all software vendors lately, Microsoft is pushing e-commerce on the Web and support for XML. SQL Server beta release 2 is available immediately.
May 12, 2000 Who’s Got the Better Windows Office Suite? Corel or Microsoft? There is no one correct answer, both desktop office suites excel in specific areas and pale in others. The contents of this note target the generic corporate office employee who makes heavy use of a word processor, medium use of spreadsheets, and limited database and/or web development.
May 11, 2000 EAI Vendor Extricity Teams with Moai to Automate E-Commerce Systems Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc., to provide a full-range of automated e-commerce systems. Moai’s Dynamic Commerce Markup Language (DCML) is an XML-standard compliant language for dynamic commerce markets, and combined with Extricity’s B2B platform, the vendors hope to better integrate e-commerce business processes.
May 11, 2000 USinternetworking and AT&T are Working the System USinternetworking and AT&T begin rollout of alliance in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
May 11, 2000 NeoModal Launches Corporate Ship On Promising Journey NeoModal is completing work on an innovative combination of global logistics applications for shippers, transportation intermediaries, and carriers.
May 11, 2000 Analysis of TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Release of Menu Driven Wireless Web Capability For SMS The advent of menu driven wireless web capabilities for SMS (Short Message Service) will allow carriers to offer their subscribers fully personalized web based menus for quick access to stock quotes and bi-directional transactions such as e-business or gaming.
May 11, 2000 Navision Software a/s: Mid-market iNvasion Navision Software has established strong branding and penetration within the Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) segment of the European and recently the U.S. ERP market. While Navision has done a respectable job establishing its U.S. network, it will face a fierce challenge from domestic competitors like Great Plains, Epicor Software, and Solomon Software.
May 10, 2000 Cooler-running Notebooks from HP, Toshiba, et al. Recent announcements from AMD, Toshiba, and Phoenix highlight an increasing focus on extending the battery life of notebook computers.
May 10, 2000 Infinium Putting its Cards on the Table On April 20, Infinium Software, a provider of Web-based enterprise solutions and services, announced that it introduced many significant new offerings at Infinium World 2000, held at the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas.
May 10, 2000 MCI WorldCom: “It’s not an age, it’s an attitude” Staking its claim as the preeminent communications company for the digital generation, MCI WorldCom announced a major initiative to build upon its advanced global data and Internet services. On April 13, 2000, President and Chief Executive Officer Bernard J. Ebbers unveiled the new vision and plans for the future of the company.
May 10, 2000 New Product Delivers Spark to Online Marketing Responsys has announced public beta availability of a web-based application designed to let small and mid-sized firms conduct online permission marketing campaigns. The company offers free use of the product for small campaigns during the beta period.
May 9, 2000 Netpliance Responds Quickly to Hardware Hack Off to a rough and tumble start, Netpliance's stock fell 18% by its third day of trading due to a security exploit. However, don't expect the rough start to thwart sales. Though the "NC' flopped four years ago, the time is right and the market is ready. The Netpliance and it's i-Opener™ service will have Granny on the net by the end of the year.
May 9, 2000 Intel Server Trends The Intel-based server market is one of the most hotly contested segments in the industry. What are the key trends in this market, and what will they mean to users, vendors, and the products themselves?
May 9, 2000 Fixing Security Backdoors:
Red Hat 1, Microsoft 0 April is the cruelest month for operating system security holes. Red Hat posted a fix within six hours, but Microsoft leaves us… still waiting!
May 9, 2000 3 Countries Open the Gate EC-Gate creates a wireless vertical marketplace to enable B2B e-commerce. The first of several wireless virtual communities were unveiled at three international conferences in the Netherlands, Brazil, and Canada.
May 9, 2000 WAP Forum Specifies RSA’s RC5 Encryption For Wireless As the wireless community continues to grow at mind-boggling rates, security has become a key concern, not only in the eyes of users, but also to vendors and service carriers.
May 8, 2000 SynQuest, Ford Deliver a Novel Application for Inbound Logistics SynQuest’s joint development venture with Ford has produced a planning engine for inbound logistics that optimizes constraints along multiple dimensions –material, temporal, and spatial. Currently live at Ford, the application will soon be available to the market at large.
May 8, 2000 Strategic Partners or Merger on the Horizon? 3Com Corporation (COMS) and Extreme Networks (EXTR) have entered into a partnership where 3Com customers will be given an enhanced migration path from the now debunked CoreBuilder 9000 to the Extreme BlackDiamond 6800. This offering coincides with 3Com’s announcement that they will no longer compete in the Enterprise networking market.
May 8, 2000 IBM Announces the Release of DB2 Universal Database
Version 7 IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the release of DB2 Universal Database Version 7, with a new pricing structure for application service providers (ASPs), support for customer relationship management (CRM), and an incubator program for e-business applications to help emerging companies get up and running on the Web.
May 8, 2000 Patent Law - the Open Source Movement of the 18th Century Recent patents issued to Amazon.com and Priceline.com on their online business methods have caught competitors by surprise. “It’s a monopoly!” they say. Of course it is.
May 8, 2000 ManagedOps.com – 13 Years and 93,000 Square Feet New Hampshire’s “Taylor Group” changes its name, builds a 93,000 square foot data center and lays out a plan to leverage 13 years of application experience to promote its ASP solution.
May 5, 2000 SynQuest Teams With InterWorld for Internet Sales and Fulfillment SynQuest, Inc. has paired with InterWorld in a joint marketing alliance aimed at manufacturers with extended distribution networks. Their pact reflects a trend among vendors of customer-facing applications and back-end fulfillment products to expand their solutions.
May 5, 2000 3Com’s AirConnect Wireless LAN Achieves Wi-Fi Certification 3Com has taken the concept of a high speed wireless LAN from fiction to reality and is set to take the wireless LAN market by storm
May 5, 2000 Defogging the “Mission/Vision Thing” A company’s success depends upon its ability to make smart decisions and respond quickly in a highly volatile environment. When a company has a relevant and clearly stated Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values, which are understood by all employees, both management and employees are in a superior position to put strategies and actions into place that propel the organization forward.
May 5, 2000 IBM Updates the Netfinity Line IBM finally seems to have gotten the message of “smaller is better” when it comes to rackmount servers with the introduction of three new models to its Netfinity line of Intel-based servers
May 4, 2000 AMD Earnings Beat the Street! Intel Earnings Beat the Street? Both Intel and AMD announced earnings that handily beat Wall Street estimates – on the surface. Do the numbers symbolize a new trend in the CPU market?
May 4, 2000 IMI Hopes Vivaldi Plays Well for Reverse Auctioneer In signing CoShopper.com, European e-fulfillment vendor Industri-Matematik opens a passage to its least penetrated corner of the globe, the Far East.
May 4, 2000 Getting Strangers to Take Your Candy Angara uses millions of anonymous user profiles to help websites convert first time visitors to first-time customers.
May 4, 2000 Desktop PCs: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss… (Dell) This year, the market can be summed up as 3D: Dell Direct Desktop. In comparison, Compaq and IBM are looking a little flat.
May 3, 2000 Another One Bites the Dust – SSA Gored to Death On April 7, Gores Technology Group (GTG), a leading international technology and management company, and System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA) announced that SSA has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to a newly formed subsidiary of Gores Technology.
May 3, 2000 Enlightened Self-interest Launches CRM Information Source Software vendor Net Perceptions and CRM gurus Peppers and Rogers Group have joined forces to develop co-branded media products covering the use of technology to create personalized, one-to-one relationships.
May 3, 2000 Essential ERP – Current Market Trends – Part II ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes — primarily accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll. This note identifies current trends in the ERP market that we believe are the direct consequence of vendors’ attempts to 1) resolve current ERP functional and/or technological deficiencies, and/or 2) expand software sales both within their existing and potential customer bases.
May 3, 2000 USi to Offer Managed Messaging for U.S. Feds USi plans to not only host messaging, but also to offer technical expertise and training to government agencies as part of its enterprise Exchange outsourcing package.
May 2, 2000 Europe's Mobile 'ONE' Selects InfoSpace for New Wireless Internet Services Once a user has logged onto his/her home page he/she will be able to gain instant access to Calendaring, Address Books, Instant Messaging and access to user specific account information
May 2, 2000 HP e-Vectra Product Follow-up Hewlett Packard announced that the e-Vectra sealed case would include an “easy swap” hard drive.
May 2, 2000 For a Million Gallons of Glue Find a Marketplace on Steroids FreeMarkets, Inc., will provide marketplace access and services to the United States Postal Service. The USPS is the first Federal entity to use FreeMarkets’ services, although the company has separately begun a strong marketing initiative to other parts of the government.
May 2, 2000 Microsoft Joins XML Specification Committee for Financials Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) has joined the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) committee to help launch an XML-based standard for translating financial reports between applications. Formerly known as the Extensible Financial Reporting Markup Language (XFRML), the language should allow companies to use the Internet to exchange financial reports.
May 2, 2000 Essential ERP – Current Market Trends – Part I ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes — primarily accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll. This note identifies current trends in the ERP market that we believe are the direct consequence of vendors’ attempts to 1) resolve current ERP functional and/or technological deficiencies, and/or 2) expand software sales both within their existing and potential customer bases.
May 1, 2000 Big Bird Dines Again Harbinger has agreed to be acquired by Peregrine in a stock exchange. The merger mates an infrastructure company that has already begun feathering its nest with e-commerce offerings to an established e-commerce company. Whether the resulting egg is golden remains to be seen, but it almost surely won’t be cracked.
May 1, 2000 Oracle APS Makes Its Debut Oracle Corporation officially released its Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) applications recently amid the usual fanfare. Long in coming, APS still has significant ground to cover.
May 1, 2000 Will That Wretched ERP Finally Die? Possibly, But Only the Acronym! Yet another ERP doom saying. This time, a prediction was given that ERP systems will only host 40 percent of business applications by 2004 partly due to the rise of collaborative commerce.
May 1, 2000 MCI WorldCom and Critical Path Power into Outsourced Messaging MCI WorldCom and Critical Path plan to offer the following services: Web mail service, starting at $2 per user, per month, POP3 mail service starting at $3.50/user/month, IMAP4 service starting at $5.50/user/month and a Microsoft Exchange collaborative service starting at $12 /user/month with 20MB of disk space.

 
April 2000
April 28, 2000 Dell Updates Its Appliance Line As part of a far-reaching strategy to grab a large share of Internet infrastructure computing, Dell has announced three new appliance server models.
April 28, 2000 iCAST and Tribal Voice to AOL: “The Block Party is Getting Old” AOL has always, and will continue to block disparate Instant Messaging systems from interacting with its 50 Million plus IM user base due to a potential negative financial impact.
April 28, 2000 Go Fygir! SCT Defeats Incumbent AspenTech at Texaco, Shell Venture ERP vendor SCT Corp. recently sold its Fygir Demand Planning product to Equilon, a joint refining venture of Shell Oil and Texaco that had signed Aspen Technology’s largest deal for its PIMS™ planning and scheduling software.
April 28, 2000 Yet Another ERP/CRM Partnership Solomon Software Inc., a leading provider of mid-market financial and business management systems, and SalesLogix, a leading provider of electronic customer relationship management (eCRM), have signed a five-year, multi-million dollar OEM software arrangement.
April 27, 2000 Apple Displays Its Core in Mac OS X Apple has opened up the source code for the kernel of their next generation operation system, Mac OS X. Et tu, Redmond?
April 27, 2000 Computer Associates Goes E-Business in a Big Way Computer Associates announced at their CAWorld conference that e-business is the place to be, and they are re-orienting their company to facilitate it. CA has previously failed to make inroads in the consulting arena, and they feel e-business is the way to fix the problem.
April 27, 2000 Great Plains – Getting Greater and Less Plain Great Plains Software, Inc., a leading provider of e-business solutions for the mid-market, announced financial results for the fiscal quarter ended February 29, 2000.
April 27, 2000 Security Stocks Burn Rubber Security technology stocks are burning rubber as they peel out in front of swaggering technology blue chips. Who are some of these security market leaders and what kinds of security products do they offer?
April 27, 2000 Wireless Mobile Portal by MobileID MobileID has produced a clean, easily navigable, user-friendly web site, which will allow users of all abilities to set up their MobileID personalized service quickly and easily, and its free too.
April 26, 2000 U.S. vs. Microsoft: Another Day of Reckoning Settlement talks between the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft broke down, leading to a historic ruling against the software giant. A breakup of Microsoft is looking more likely.
April 26, 2000 Even If We Knew Who You Are, We Probably Wouldn’t Tell Companies specializing in personalization of consumer relationships have formed a consortium and conducted their first research study. The conclusion is that you care about privacy but not enough to drive to the mall.
April 26, 2000 IBM Moves into Enterprise Application Integration International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has announced a new release of MQSeries Integrator that should help businesses integrate their applications and improve e-business architectures. IBM’s leadership in message oriented middleware with MQSeries should allow them to take a leadership role in the market in short order.
April 26, 2000 Internet Makes SCP All That It Can Be The Internet is reshaping the supply chain planning marketplace. Several clear trends have emerged in recent years that capitalize on the possibilities for collaboration, information sharing, and instantaneous communication that the Internet provides.
April 25, 2000 Who’s That Knocking On Your Web? Coremetrics’ approach to visitor tracking is a hosted service that incorporates industry best practices to provide profiling of site visitors to support media analysis, merchandizing and segmentation.
April 25, 2000 Sybase Tag-Teams with Informatica Sybase® (NASDAQ: SYBS) has signed a worldwide OEM agreement with Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) to resell Informatica’s extract/transform/load tool PowerMart® along with Sybase’s new vertical application suite known as Industry Warehouse Studio®. This is yet another move by a database vendor to supply complete analytic solutions to customers, particularly e-businesses.
April 25, 2000 Symix Launches eSyte Supply Chain Symix Systems, Inc. recently announced an addition to its e-business application suite, eSyte Supply Chain. It offers multi-site capacity and material planning capabilities that have been given new relevance with the advent of B2B collaboration.
April 25, 2000 The Fuzzy Logic Between Lead and Lag Indicators Analog Devices was the first company to implement a balanced scorecard company-wide on an Executive Information System. In fact, it has been running for 13 years. One of the major lessons that Analog learned was to trust the lead and lag relationship between non-financial and financial measures. This note was based in part from an interview with Art Schneiderman, pioneer of the balanced scorecard concepts at Analog Devices and Bob Stasey, VP of Quality at Analog Devices.
April 25, 2000 Why Would Anyone Need More Than 50 IP Addresses? A major “issue” (a/k/a bug) has been uncovered in Windows 2000 Server. A consulting firm has found that administrators cannot add more than 51 IP addresses – potentially a tremendous problem for ISPs and other customers.
April 24, 2000 Will Max Get Mad When He Surfs Your Website? WebCriteria announced that it has launched a new study of user interaction with Websites. As with previous studies, the results will be used to build a software model of a surfer (named Max) and integrated into products that help assess the quality of a real surfer’s experience.
April 24, 2000 Is J. D. Edwards’ xtr@ Ordinary? J. D. Edwards’ supply chain messaging architecture may make life easier for xtr@ users, but offers questionable benefits for collaboration partners.
April 24, 2000 Oracle Flying High on Q3 Report: Is Gold All That Glitters? On March 15, shares of Oracle surged after the company plowed past Wall Street estimates and reported strong database software sales fueling a solid third-quarter profit. However, Oracle has also confirmed that it is refocusing its European applications division and has hinted that it may reduce the unit's workforce.
April 24, 2000 Mirapoint ~ ISP Messaging Solution in a Box? The Mirapoint administration client allows you to also administer services directly. Mirapoint supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), NIS (Network Information Service), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol).
April 21, 2000 Teloquent To e.t.: Now You Can Call Or Use The Web Teloquent introduced a new release of its software to integrate phone and web-based customer service.
April 21, 2000 Mercator Software Extends EAI Solutions for Insurance with XML Mercator Software (which is changing its name from TSI International Software to reflect the name of its flagship product) has announced support within its “Integration Broker” products for both XML and EDI transactions based on the ACORD standard for the insurance industry.
April 21, 2000 Navision Becoming More Visible In March Navision Software a/s announced it signed a global sales and distribution agreement with Microsoft Corporation Inc. that enables the company's partner network of more than 900 Navision Solution Centers to sell and distribute Microsoft BackOffice products integrated with Navision solutions.
April 21, 2000 Will Intel Take a Loss on Each CPU, but Make It Up in Volume? There are reports that Dell may buy AMD’s Spitfire chip. If the reports are true, then look for competition to produce lower prices.
April 21, 2000 Getting Beyond the Development Stage Now that you’ve validated your product or service concept, how do you avoid hemorrhaging money during expansion?
April 20, 2000 Driving the Change Agenda through a Low Overhead Program Office You are your Projects! They maintain your corporate vitality. A Program Office can significantly contribute to strategy realization by ensuring that the right projects are launched in the right manner, at the right time, for the right reasons.
April 20, 2000 A Forum for Wireless Standards…About time isn’t it? A wireless standards forum has been needed for years, and given the wide array of vendors participating in the newly formed Mobile Wireless Internet Form (MWIF), we believe a global standard can be achieved and implemented quickly.
April 20, 2000 DSL Provider Scoops up Netscreen Firewall Goldmine In a $905million exchange of stock, Efficient Networks has acquired a more than efficient security solution with its acquisition of the Netscreen line of appliance firewalls. Well positioned to give firewall market leader Checkpoint a run for their money, the Netscreen line of firewalls scale to an incredible magnitude compared to anything currently out on the market.
April 20, 2000 A Visionary of Loveliness Informix released version 2.0 of their interactive data analysis dashboard Visionary. The tool is designed for decision-makers and provides capabilities for viewing and analyzing dynamic data from a variety of sources.
April 20, 2000 Geac Announces Q3 Results and Acquires CRM Vendor Geac Computer Corporation Limited announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended January 31, 2000. Geac also announced it has acquired RunTime, the Denmark-based e-Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) solutions provider to the apparel, footwear, and textile industries.
April 19, 2000 Cyclone Untangles Digital Partnerships Cyclone Commerce has announced a hosted version of its Interchange product. Both versions are designed to help manage the many interconnections that arise in large e-commerce communities.
April 19, 2000 EAI Vendor CrossWorlds Eases Middleware Customization CrossWorlds Software, an enterprise application integration vendor, is making it easier for customers to acquire components and utilities with specific functionality. The vendor will create a CrossWorlds Exchange site on a subscription basis, for $50,000 per year with additional fees for some components.
April 19, 2000 ERP Demand Being Re-heated As reported on March 5 in The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN -- E-commerce may get all the attention, but information technology experts say the demand for enterprise resource planning professionals is almost as hot.
April 19, 2000 Messaging: Lotus Notes Domino R5 vs. Microsoft Exchange 5.5 This note compares the two leading collaborative messaging systems, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, in the areas of functionality, technology, cost, service, support, corporate viability, and corporate strategy.
April 18, 2000 Segue Software is First to Provide the Capability to Load Test Wireless Applications The product (SilkPerformer) has been aimed at the e-business market, but with the addition of load testing for wireless devices, we believe Segue Software has the stage set to further its utilitarian hold on e-business.
April 18, 2000 Pop-up Purchasing Agents OutPurchase.com provides a full-service purchasing solution, including vendor and transaction management, for companies that have real business purchasing requirements but do not want to create their own purchasing infrastructure.
April 18, 2000 The MicroStrategy/ Intelligroup ASP MicroStrategy Announces ASP Alliance: Intelligroup to Deliver MicroStrategy's Intelligent E-Business™ Solutions to Small and Midsize Businesses.
April 18, 2000 SynQuest Ships Manufacturing Software for AS/400 SynQuest, Inc. with help from IBM makes good on its promise to deliver an AS/400-based version of its manufacturing software.
April 18, 2000 Security Begins on Your Desktop The documents, spreadsheets, databases and other files on the personal computers used to conduct business are corporate assets. It cost money to create them and that investment should be protected. Additionally, companies have both competitive and legal obligations to assure that such data is kept private and secure. Many companies and most people are unaware of the obligation and potential threats.
April 17, 2000 Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Adds Dysfunction to the Windows Family Once upon a time, Microsoft products could only be used after the first service pack was released. With Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1, Redmond sets out to prove that the second service pack’s the charm, now.
April 17, 2000 MATRAnet Converts Confusion to Cash MATRAnet has added collaborative browsing to its customer relationship management product.
April 17, 2000 Manugistics: An Old Dog Learns New Tricks One year ago, Manugistics appeared to be on the brink of disaster. With the help of new management and an e-business product launch, the timeworn supply chain management vendor grew its license revenues by 51% in its fourth quarter.
April 17, 2000 Network Associates Hopes to Rekindle the Flame Though the security market has been exploding, Network Associates, Inc. (NAI) will likely post a loss for FY'99. However, don't expect the security monolith to be down for the count. Year 2000 will be a better year. The momentum of the market will add enough spark to NAI's new corporate strategy to ignite a profitability flame and help it regain its stance.
April 14, 2000 Novell Uses XML, LDAP, NDS to Manage AD, IOS, etc. Novell’s new DirXML directory will use XML and LDAP to seamlessly manage legacy directories from an NDS platform. Get ready for the Acronym Wars.
April 14, 2000 “Whistler” Beta on the Web? Source code for a future Microsoft OS, code-named “Whistler”, mysteriously appeared on the Internet in mid-March. How did it get there? Does it matter? And why does Microsoft management keep making statements that are later retracted?
April 14, 2000 ASP: For The Health of It 5-Year ASP Contract for Internet Healthcare Software Awarded to Healthcare Systems & Solutions.
April 14, 2000 Logility, IBM to Offer Mid Market Solutions on AS/400 IBM and B2B collaborative supply chain planning vendor Logility, Inc. have partnered to offer a joint solution for the AS/400e server platform.
April 13, 2000 HP Reorganizes Storage Group, Addresses NAS-cent Market Trying to stake its claim on the rapidly-growing enterprise storage market, Hewlett-Packard announced the formation of its new Storage Organization, while unveiling products it hopes will give it a credible presence in the Network-Attached Storage market.
April 13, 2000 AT&T PocketNet Service Goes Wireless With Novell GroupWise Novell’s GroupWise product is the second collaborative messaging system that has teamed with AT&T for the wireless PocketNet service. Lotus Notes currently has over 50,000,000 client seats, and Novell GroupWise has over 20,000,000 client seats, giving AT&T PocketNet service a potential target market of 70,000,000 users.
April 13, 2000 Concur eWorkplace Projects Vision Onto Desktop Concur announced a comprehensive release of its eWorkplace portal and the components for purchasing, human relations, and travel and expense management.
April 13, 2000 i2’s Aspect Acquisition Not Overpriced In March, i2 Technologies announced it would acquire Aspect Development Corporation and a smaller vendor, Supplybase, Inc. Though the record offer price – $8.6 billion in stock – raised some eyebrows, i2 will gain a mountain of potential in return.
April 13, 2000 Hacker Publication Gets Top Defense Attorney In a case that will challenge the bowels of free speech and censorship and inevitably set a lot of legal precedents, renowned defense attorney Marcus Garbus has been retained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to represent 2600 (an infamous hacker publication) that is being charged with circumvention of copyright protection systems (17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(2)), specifically the Contents Scramble Systems (CSS) developed to protect Digital Video Discs (DVDs) against unauthorized access.
April 12, 2000 IBM is not Enough: i2 Snatches Aspect and SupplyBase i2 Technologies will acquire Aspect Development for $8.6 billion. It will also acquire SupplyBase for $380 million.
April 12, 2000 Brio Technology Expands Support for WML and XML Brio Technology (Nasdaq: BRYO) a provider of business intelligence solutions, announced it is adopting the Wireless Markup Language (WML) and strengthening its use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the underlying languages for its entire suite of products. These features will initially be incorporated into Brio.Report 6.0, which is currently in beta testing.
April 12, 2000 ERP Vendors Venturing into PSA On February 29, PeopleSoft Inc. took the wraps off its Professional Services Automation (PSA) product, software that aims to help services firms better manage financial and human-resources systems. On March 6, Lawson Software reaffirmed its position as a “premier total solution provider for the professional services industry”.
April 12, 2000 Can Brick & Mortar Leaders Be Brick & Click Leaders? Merger mania, deregulation, and new technology are having far ranging impacts on organization, process, and technology integration in the financial services arena. But are leaders ready for the speed, innovation and risk management challenge brought on by e-commerce?
April 12, 2000 Solomon Software: Breaking Away from Perception as “Best-of-Breed-Accounting” Vendor Due to its late expansion into the ERP world, the company has been trailed by its reputation of a best-of-breed accounting software vendor. While Solomon has accelerated its schedule of new functionality, it will be hard pressed with tight “time-to-market” constraints.
April 11, 2000 HP: Why Not Just Call It “e-Vectra.com”? HP succumbing to the trend for simple, sealed case PC’s, will release the e-Vectra in April. E-look before you e-leap.
April 11, 2000 Komatsu Employs “Mod Squad” For Logility Implementation At the Connections 2000 Logility user conference in New Orleans, users recounted implementation stories. Few were as striking as that of the Komatsu’s DRP implementation modifications, a testament to human ingenuity.
April 11, 2000 QAD Ends Its Protracted Dry Season, Not Yet On an Easy Street QAD Inc. reported $0.06 of diluted net income per share, or net income of $2.1 million, on record total revenue of $70.9 million for the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2000. This compares with $0.16 of diluted net loss per share or a net loss of $4.9 million on total revenue of $65.4 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1999.
April 11, 2000 JD Edwards’ Alliances: Is It Too Much of a Good Thing? Enterprise application vendor JD Edwards has forged a number of alliances since September 1999 as the company looks to expand the availability of its OneWorld product suite. While the best-of-breed approach has its merits, we believe it invariably leads to additional integration costs and complicates service & support arrangements.
April 10, 2000 Progress Offers a Test Drive Progress Software offers customers the opportunity to test drive applications via the Internet.
April 10, 2000 Compaq Streamlines Product Line Compaq is simplifying its sometimes dizzying range of product offerings in its business desktop lines. This bodes well for their customers.
April 10, 2000 Will MS try the ''Open Source'' Gambit with WinCE? Why Not – Nothing Else Seems to Work In what may be another attempt to gain some kind of foothold in the handheld and embedded-OS market, rumors are floating that Microsoft will open the source code for Windows CE.
April 10, 2000 Laying the Tracks for the Technology Train Don’t expect high marks in enabling business initiatives until your company gets its corporate strategy right. This note was based in part from an interview with Norm Smallwood, CEO of Results-Based Leadership.
April 10, 2000 Ardent Software: Will Informix Merger Affect their Success? With Informix’s completion of its acquisition of Ardent Software, it remains to be seen how effective this marriage will be, and whether Ardent will be allowed autonomy to continue its success in the extract/transform/load and data integration infrastructure.
April 7, 2000 E-procurement: From Brilliant Innovation to Common Cliché Electronic procurement has moved from a nice idea to a stampede in just a few years. Growing at Internet speed it spawns business models faster than the market can reasonably evaluate them. Some settling and shaking out is likely in the next year, but there are also crowds pushing to get in on the action, and the innovation is far from over.
April 7, 2000 “It’s a Notebook!” “It’s a Paperweight!” “Wait - It’s Both!” Some Toshiba notebook buyers got a nasty surprise when they found their Intel CPU had died. Will Toshiba switch from “Intel Inside” to “AMD Instead”?
April 7, 2000 How 3Com, Became 1Com 3Com is getting out of it’s no-growth modem and high-end networking businesses. It’s already spun off the high-growth Palm unit. What will be left?
April 7, 2000 PSINet and HP ~ OpenMail as an Outsourced Global Messaging We expect the plan to be a moderate success in Europe. We have no expectations of success within the United States
April 6, 2000 Saudi Arabian Network Security Provokes Local Considerations Internet security in Saudi Arabia does not go overlooked. Are the Saudis being over zealous and paranoid, or are they practicing smart network security?
April 6, 2000 Cisco: IPv6 is Coming, Eventually Cisco’s announcement of IPv6 support across its product lines continues the next generation Internet protocol’s deployment with all deliberate speed.
April 6, 2000 Financial Fusion ~ E-Finance Wireless Leader? Financial Fusion’s expands e-finance possibilities. From this point forward a client can bank anytime, anywhere, without limitation. (Of course your cell phone will not suddenly start spurting out cash….)
April 6, 2000 United Messaging ~ Ready…Set…Outsource! We believe that within a 3 year time frame, the outsourced corporate messaging market will capture 25% of the existing install base, which sizes the ASP Messaging market at 47.5 Million Seats (Probability 70%)
April 5, 2000 How Many Napkins Have to Die Needlessly? A Case for Business Architecture Architecture is a description of how things go together. Once we know what our Business Architecture is, we can design an Information Technology Architecture to compliment it. Without a clearly stated architecture, there is a good chance that things will be put together wrong.
April 5, 2000 Meiosis, Mitosis: Cap Gemini's Mating with Ernst & Young Ernst & Young is on the verge of splitting its consultancy heritage (meiosis) and mating it with France's Cap Gemini's (mitosis). It is a leap of faith that these two genetically different beings can combine genes to create a new international behemoth of 60,000. What's the common DNA? You guessed it – e-business.
April 5, 2000 Gosh, There’s a Bug in Windows 98 There’s a system security hole that can crash your Windows 95 or 98 system. How long has it taken Microsoft to fix it? Three months and counting.
April 5, 2000 Analysis of Adobe’s Integration of IslandData’s Automated E-mail Adobe’s support site receives approximately 1.3 million client inquiries per month and has been in need of an automated response system to decrease escalating support costs.
April 5, 2000 GLOVIA to be Resuscitated (Hopefully) Fujitsu Limited announced its intention to acquire 100% ownership of GLOVIA International LLC, a California-based provider of business applications, e-commerce solutions, advanced technology and world-class services for the digital marketplace, in which it currently holds a 30.5% interest.
April 4, 2000 ASP Traffic Analysis! What Next – ASP Odometers? WebTrends will begin offering an Application Service Provider (ASP) solution for web traffic analysis. The offering has options both for traditional traffic analysis and for commerce analysis. The product is also free to personal web sites.
April 4, 2000 SAP Starts Pushing – “Politely” SAP and BackWeb Announce Strategic Alliance To Bring New Push Technology to mySAP.com™ Marketplace For Complex RFPs and RFQs.
April 4, 2000 Oracle Warehouse Builder: Better Late than Never? Close to a year behind schedule, Oracle released Warehouse Builder to the market. Oracle, in an interesting contradiction in terms, has stated that the product is “already in production at nearly 20 beta sites.” But is it too little too late?
April 4, 2000 Hitch Your Wagon to a Wild Horse? In the frantic race to be “on the web” companies are looking outside for help to design and build their web sites. In the frantic race to be the “bleeding edge” e-Builders are doing whatever they can to deliver service to their clients. The result is not always predictable and not always satisfactory to either party.
April 4, 2000 Supply Chain Planning in 2000: The Brains Behind Internet Fulfillment The supply chain planning market will top $2.5 billion in 2000, driven in large part by the needs of Internet customer fulfillment.
April 3, 2000 Robust Systems are Built from the Bottom Up Information technology infrastructure takes a back seat to applications investments for lack of a cost justification method. However, the infrastructure systems are breaking down in public; bringing significant attention to an issue that has been set aside far too long.
April 3, 2000 Wintel Tries to “Embrace and Extend” the English Language Intel and Microsoft are getting into the server appliance game, only this appliance is really a small server. But if they want to misuse the term, who are we to argue?
April 3, 2000 Simplexis in the Schools??? In an attempt to save U.S. schools $10 billion by 2005, Simplexis.com has launched an online B2B marketplace for school purchasing.
April 3, 2000 IMI, IBM Take First Step in Third Quarter Six months after announcing its partnership with IBM, Industri-Matematik posted positive license growth in its third fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2000 but still has some problems to overcome.

 
March 2000
March 31, 2000 PeopleSoft’s ASP Play PeopleSoft announces the “Next Generation ASP”
March 31, 2000 IBM’s Unix Servers Eclipse Sun IBM’s latest RS/6000 server, the high-end S80, outsold Sun Microsystems’ E10000 by almost three-to-one in the fourth quarter. Who cares – it’s the performance and price that may end up burning Sun.
March 31, 2000 Microsoft Windows Me -- The Millennium DOES Begin in 2001 Windows Me, the operating system formerly known as Millennium Edition (TOSFKAME), will eliminate support for many networks. And it’s running late. La plus ça change…
March 30, 2000 IBM is Not Enough; Ariba Announces Strong Partnership with Dell Ariba announced a sweeping new partnership with Dell.
March 30, 2000 IBM is Not Enough; Ariba Announces Strong Partnership with Amex Ariba announced a sweeping new partnership with American Express.
March 30, 2000 PhoneFish.com to Offer E-mail for Wireless Access Phones PhoneFish is a two-way wireless Internet solution for small to medium sized businesses, which require consistent wireless access to POP-based email.
March 30, 2000 Razorfish Wants to Get its Name Out on Broadband Razorfish is positioned to expand, but at what price? Razorfish faces challenges in organization, image, and perceived capabilities. How well Razorfish succeeds in overcoming these challenges will determine how much it will grasp the very lucrative opportunities of the DBSP market.
March 29, 2000 Commerce One and Adexa Build Castles in the Air Leading e-commerce vendor Commerce One recently announced an alliance with B2B collaboration vendor Adexa. Though in its early stages, the alliance has strong incentives on its side that may well bring success.
March 29, 2000 USinternetworking: One Suite ASP USi Delivers Complete Set of ASP Enterprise Solutions for Buying and Selling over the Internet.
March 29, 2000 DOJ Keeps Low Profile on Curador; Protect Your IIS Server Today! After insisting the perpetrator of the February Distributed Denial of Service attacks would be caught and punished, a month later, the Department of Justice, and Janet Reno, are keeping a low profile on the antics of an altogether different, but in many ways more serious, cyber attack. Take Remote Data Service precautions today. Here's how.
March 29, 2000 Current Trends in Messaging As electronic communication has grown, geographic boundaries have shrunk, enabling an onslaught of mobile executives.
March 28, 2000 Oh, Right. E-commerce is About Buying and Selling, Isn’t It? VerticalNet will acquire the capability to add state-of-the-art digital marketplaces to its collection of vertically oriented content sites.
March 28, 2000 JD Edwards Reports Strong License Revenue Growth in Q1 2000, but… J.D. Edwards & Company reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2000.
March 28, 2000 Microsoft says OLE for Data Mining: Is it Bull? Microsoft released a new version of OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding Database, based on Microsoft’s Component Object Model or COM) which supports a proprietary data mining specification. It is purported to extend the Structured Query Language (SQL) to allow easier and faster incorporation of data mining queries into existing data warehouse solutions.
March 28, 2000 Information/Internet Appliances Information appliances, also called Internet or PC appliances, are a new market that appeal to those customers who want to reduce their desktop hardware expenditures. What are they, who makes them, and what do you get for your money?
March 27, 2000 i2 Adds More Verticals To Ra-b2b-it Stew As vertical B2B marketplaces multiply like rabbits, i2 Technologies is nurturing a warren of its own. The latest addition, FreightMatrix, may prove to be the most important introduction to date.
March 27, 2000 MicroStrategy Hits a Big Speed Bump on the Information Superhighway On March 20, MicroStrategy announced that they will restate their earnings for 1998, 1999, and the first quarter of 2000. Shares of the company dropped from a high of $333 eleven days ago to $73 per share as of March 21. At least four law firms have announced class action lawsuits against the vendor.
March 27, 2000 SAS Puts the “E” in “Data” SAS Institute has applied its data mining technology to the Internet. The company released products that will help companies analyze and predict the behavior of Web surfers. The target customer is one with large volumes of enterprise data that come from a variety of sources.
March 27, 2000 Symbian, Microsoft Try to Slap Palm Around Palm Computing’s PalmPCs will be facing stiff competition from Microsoft and the Symbian consortium, each of which is trying to grab a large share of the handheld PDA (personal digital assistant) market. Palm presently holds the 80% of the market
March 27, 2000 Intentia Attempts to Become ‘Lean and Mean’ In February, an enterprise application provider Intentia International announced the merger of Intentia's regional organizations in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific into one joint organization named Global Operations.
March 27, 2000 Hewlett-Packard’s NetServer Division – #3 to Get Ready, or #4 to Go? Hewlett-Packard is one of the leading computer companies in the world, but they have fallen to fourth place in the Intel-based server market. Will they move back to being a key player, or remain an also-ran?
March 20, 2000 Lotus Notes R5 ~ A Breath of Fresh Air Lotus Notes has just surpassed the 50,000,000-installed base mark, giving Microsoft’s Exchange server a good “run for the money”.
March 20, 2000 Agilera.com – A new era for the web? Verio, CIBER, and Centennial Ventures Sign Definitive Agreements to Form New ASP Joint Venture.
March 20, 2000 SCO’s Tarantella Offers Tools for Technology SCO introduces Tarantella ASP edition and ASP Connect as tools for the Application Service Provider market.
March 20, 2000 DoubleClick Takes Bath, Throws in Towel After weeks of being deluged by lawsuits, bad press, federal regulatory investigations and nasty name-calling, DoubleClick backs off on its plans to tie surfing behavior to personally identifiable information.
March 20, 2000 SAP Enhances PDM Software (Slightly) In February SAP AG announced a web-enabled version of their product data management (PDM) software, the application that lets manufacturers collect and manage databases of information about the products they make.
March 20, 2000 CMGI’s iCast.com Rock’n’Rolls with Instant Messaging If you love Instant Messaging and are either a music or video fan, iCast.com will appeal to you.
March 17, 2000 With Commerce One, Your Reach May Be The Same As Your Grasp Commerce One has announced a broad range of initiatives aimed at extending its E-procurement solutions and technology across the supply chain. The company announced that this completes its procurement offerings; what will it do next?
March 17, 2000 Security Breach: Now What? When people's lives or financial transactions are at risk, proper Security Incident handling is of extreme importance.
March 17, 2000 Acquisition Places Descartes Before E-Transport Descartes Systems Group announced a definitive agreement to purchase E-Transport, Inc., a logistics exchange solution provider based in Pittsburgh, PA.
March 17, 2000 Vendors Begin to Round Out Their CRM Suites Front-office vendors Baan Co. and SalesLogix Inc. round out their customer-relationship management application suites adding new marketing, service, and E-commerce capabilities.
March 17, 2000 Palm IPO: 3Com’s morning after, or “Do you know the way to San Jose?” What does 3Com do now that Palm, Inc. is gone? Find someone else in the neighborhood to play with. Cisco is just next door.
March 17, 2000 Does Microsoft Have Something Against 64-Bit Processors? More cracks appear in the Wintel duolith, as Linux appears to be the first OS “ready for prime time” on Intel’s 64-bit “Itanium” processor. Despite Microsoft’s statements to the contrary, Linux may also be the only 64-bit OS on Itanium for awhile.
March 15, 2000 PeopleSoft Programs Cause Headaches at Number of Universities For the students at Northwestern University registration was supposed to be as easy as point and click, however, it turned into crash and burn.
March 15, 2000 Linux at 25% of Server OS Market - Is Redmond Hearing Footsteps? Linux has now grabbed 25% of the server operating system market share, passing Novell and knocking on Windows's door.
March 15, 2000 Informatica Goes Multinational With Support for Unicode Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA) announced products that enable resellers and distributors around the world to convert Informatica software to any major language for resale in their local markets.
March 15, 2000 News Analysis: Dot.Coms Getting Bred By Scient: Will Scient Spawn Into a Giant or Will Andersen Have the Edge? Scient's announcement of its intent to baby Dot.com's into existence makes it the Mondragon of High Tech America. The connection? Mondragon genetically bred cooperatives, and became the largest multi-business cooperative network in the world (about 45,000 members).
March 15, 2000 SAP Declares Victory Over Manugistics, Takes Aim at i2 On February 25 in Waltham, Massachusetts, SAP proclaimed itself the number two vendor of supply chain management solutions. Many in the room were openly skeptical, but does SAP have a case?
March 13, 2000 IBM Firewall Discontinued IBM plans to discontinue development and support of its AS/400 firewall and is referring existing customers to Axent, Checkpoint, and Cisco.
March 13, 2000 Commerce One: Connectivity Improved During the eLink 2000 conference, Commerce One announced two new partnerships/alliances designed to improve connectivity.
March 13, 2000 B2Big Deal for IBM, Ariba, and i2 IBM, Ariba and i2 announce a partnership whose goal is to accelerate the real value provided by E-commerce and whose effect is to leave some companies quaking in their boots.
March 13, 2000 GE Comes to Lunch. Want to Guess Who the Appetizer Will Be? General Electric announced the effective slicing of its General Electric Information Services company into two new business units to focus on E-commerce. The company will leverage its existing trading network to become a major E-commerce provider. At the rate at which E-procurement in particular is moving, GE may have to bulk up seriously to make its mark.
March 13, 2000 SAS/Warehouse 2.0 Goes Live SAS Institute has announced the production availability of SAS/Warehouse Administrator software, Version 2.0. This new version provides IT the ability to proactively publish data warehouse information and track its usage, plus aggressively manage the process of change in the data warehouse.
March 10, 2000 Microsoft says: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Glasses In one of the quicker reversals on record, Bill Gates and Microsoft issued conflicting statements within a day regarding the software giant's willingness to open its Windows source code.
March 10, 2000 U.S. vs. Microsoft - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But Not That Hard An updated study projects a potential Microsoft antitrust breakup to increase software costs US$30B. It's not nearly that high.
March 10, 2000 PrettyPark Virus Litters Cyberspace There have been numerous reports of the PrettyPark virus running rampant on the Internet this week. Help keep cyberspace clean by wiping out the PrettyParks.
March 10, 2000 Lawson Plays Well With Others Lawson Software announced general availability for six more components of its E-commerce suite of applications. Lawson is a mid-market ERP vendor that has reinvented itself as an E-commerce enabler.
March 10, 2000 Siebel Sees Farther on Shoulders of Giants Siebel Systems announces two alliances that promise new relevance for its customer relationship management software.
March 8, 2000 Concur Scores A Bingo Concur took a quantum leap in providing E-procurement services to small and mid-sized businesses by partnering with Nortel Networks and SAFECO. The resulting Concur Business Advantage will provide leveraged buying services to customers.
March 8, 2000 How to Make Life Interesting after Growing 30,700% Vertical market maker Chemdex is reinventing itself as a B2B incubator. The purpose? More vertical marketplaces.
March 8, 2000 Company Makes Good On B2B Collaboration Logility recently announced financial results for the third quarter ended January 31, 2000 and seemingly escaped the market turmoil that pummeled other enterprise applications vendors.
March 8, 2000 IFS Continues to Blossom On February 14, Industrial & Financial Systems (IFS AB) announced an increase in net revenue for 1999 to Swedish Kroner (SEK) 1,948 M compared to SEK 1,238 M in 1998, an increase of 57% compared with the previous year.
March 8, 2000 Microsoft Releases RC1 of the Exchange 2000 Conference Server Microsoft's Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server enables knowledge workers to collaborate with anyone, anywhere by providing data, video, and voice conferencing across intranets and the Internet.
March 6, 2000 G-Log Offers New Start For CEO, Management Team Global Logistics Technologies (G-Log) will soon launch its Internet-based logistics software business for the transportation industry. G-Log is a new beginning for CEO Mitchell Weseley.
March 6, 2000 Food Producer Files $20m Lawsuit Against Oracle California based Tri Valley Growers (TVG) filed a $20 million lawsuit against Oracle, for Oracle's failure to fulfill its contract to modernize TVG's production and management systems using its enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
March 6, 2000 Sendmail, Inc. and Disappearing, Inc. Team Up to Add Enhanced Security Administrators of the sendmail system, coupled with Disappearing, Inc.'s product will be able to set specific "Time to Live" (TTL) for each piece of email prior to permanent deletion, allowing corporate email retention policies to be enforced.
March 6, 2000 Intel Tries to Give it Away - AMD Says ''No Way'' Intel Corp. has disclosed a problem involving its 820 and 840 chip sets that has spurred the company to scrap plans for three motherboards it had on its server road map.
March 6, 2000 At Least Your Boss Can't Read Your Home E-mail, Right? Wrong! A lower-court judge in St. Paul granted a subpoena to Northwest Airlines allowing them the search the home computers of employees for evidence of allegedly illegal union activities.
March 3, 2000 Remedy Makes CRM a Personal Matter Remedy announced its acquisition of Axtive Software Corporation, a provider of relationship marketing software that supports personalized interactions between surfers and websites.
March 3, 2000 With New Clothes and Hairdo, Clarus Asks for Pin Money Clarus Corporation, having unloaded all of its back-end software business, is asking the market to fund its new life as an E-procurement vendor.
March 3, 2000 Analysis of Active Voice's Acquisition of PhoneSoft, Inc. Active Voice will integrate all of PhoneSoft's functionality into their existing "Unity" voice-messaging product to target Lotus Notes Domino R5.
March 3, 2000 Goodbye PCs, Hello Appliances? The U.S. market for Internet appliances is taking off. The new devices are expected to surpass consumer personal computer shipments in 2002.
March 3, 2000 Software Technologies Corporation (STC) Prepares to go Public Enterprise Application Integration vendor Software Technologies Corp. (STC) announced the filing by the company of a Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchanges Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of up to $100 million of its common stock.
March 1, 2000 BMC Software Gets Slapped with Class Action Lawsuit BMC Software,Inc. (Nasdaq:BMCS) gets slapped with a class action lawsuit claiming that BMC insiders made false statements about the strength of sales and integration of acquisitions, sold stock when BMC was trading at an all time high, then announced that third quarter FY00 earnings would be much worse than expected.
March 1, 2000 Analysis of Sendmail, Inc.'s Largest Open Source Release in Twenty Years sendmail 8.10 now includes SMTP authentication and support for the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) and multiple queues.
March 1, 2000 Compaq Plans Direct Sales. DTja vu All Over Again? Compaq Computer told financial analysts it plans to start selling more of its computers directly to customers, and this time the company says it means it.
March 1, 2000 Geac Computer Corporation: Mastering Growth by Acquisitions Geac has acquired in excess of 40 companies around the world. Geac's purchase of UK-based ERP software maker JBA International in 1999 has nearly doubled the company's size.
March 1, 2000 Concur Aims To Be Single Point Of (Purchasing) Access Concur began as a vendor of shrink-wrapped travel and expense tracking software, but is now making a play to be a major provider of self-service Internet-enabled applications, including offerings in E-purchasing and Human Resources.
March 1, 2000 WorldCom SPRINTs, Nokia/Visa Pays Bill, & Service Providers Gear for Wireless Tsunami Ready for another Internet Tsunami? Broadband and Wireless ubiquitous infrastructures are coming into place at a rapid rate. Digital Business Service Providers (DBSPs) are scrambling to get ready. Users should be thinking now about the impact on their digital business.
March 1, 2000 Server Appliances - ''Caching'' In on Internet's Growth "Server Appliances" are a relatively new, fast-growing segment within the Server market. These systems are designed to perform one or two functions very well, without the overhead of a general-purpose server.
March 1, 2000 Why Not Take Candy From Strangers? More Privacy Problems May Make Ad Agencies Nutty Online advertising network 24/7 has acquired AwardTrack, a newly launched provider of loyalty programs.
March 1, 2000 New Market for Security Insurance Some insurance companies are now offering policies which protect companies against system, network, and website security losses. What do these policies offer corporations that they don't get in their standard General Liability Insurance Policy coverage?

 
February 2000
February 28, 2000 PeopleSoft Takes Aim at Foods Industry PeopleSoft and Bradley Ward will integrate their products in an alliance aimed at the food processing industry. The completed solution will let companies' link real-time plant floor level data to ERP systems.
February 28, 2000 An ASP With Healthy Vitals Healtheon/WebMD to Invest up to $100 million in InfoCure's VitalWorks.com Subsidiary.
February 28, 2000 The Potential of Visa's XML Standard Visa introduces a new global XML invoice specification.
February 28, 2000 Symix Expands Its Product Offering While Remaining Profitable Symix Systems, Inc. announced, it had completed the acquisition of Profit Solutions, Inc. ("PSI"), it had partnered with Software Plus, and its financial results for the second quarter and six months ended D