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The surest sign that VOIP is a success is the growing crowd of folks looking to get into its pockets. The Federal Communications Commission is arriving on the scene none too soon and could fill the role of police officer. The agency is now mulling how to regulate this evolving technology to the satisfaction of […]

Without competition, an industry can stagnate due to high prices, slow product delivery and limited product innovation. Recent lawsuits that invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to curb competition and therefore threaten to bring about those conditions. Passed in 1998, the DMCA was written to limit Internet piracy. But a provision of the law—Section […]

The recent announcement of a partnership between AMD and Sun promises IT buyers the benefits of greater choice among server technologies. The companies have pledged to introduce AMD Opteron-based Sun Fire servers running Solaris and Linux. That move could spur other vendors to counter with more powerful servers based on Opteron. The magnitude of the […]

Mergers can make sense when customers can be better served by complementary products sold by a single vendor in a market with plenty of choice. Right now, there is lively competition in the business applications arena, although SAP is the largest vendor by a significant margin. The PeopleSoft merger with J.D. Edwards, recently approved by […]

Watergate source Deep Throat was right: “Follow the money.” The furor surrounding ownership of intellectual property in Unix and Linux is not about technology or even ideology. Its about the money—specifically, the business interests that are served by casting a shadow of doubt over the legitimacy of open-source platforms and services. If Linux users are […]

One year after Hewlett-Packard shareholders approved the acquisition of Compaq Computer, HP CEO Carly Fiorina is pitching the company as a credible alternative to IBM. During the next few years, many customers will be making their choice of enterprise vendor between the companies. Gaining size and a more competitive mix of products and services was […]

Theres nothing so unifying as a common foe. Finally, a war has united the country with a common sense of purpose not seen since the “greatest generation” was in its prime. It took an enemy so pernicious that the best efforts of the brightest minds have been unable so far to curb it. This enemy […]

Sun Microsystems has changed its mind on Linux more often than a 16-year-old flipping through outfits. Yet another shoe dropped at Sun with its announcement at the end of last month that it will be killing its Sun Linux 5.0 distribution. Suns adventures with Linux say a lot about whats really important to the future […]

Its not an overstatement to say that much of B2Bs future depends on SOAP, the Web services standard that defines how two computers engage each others services via XML commands. Without Simple Object Access Protocol, Web services-based computing, including business-to-business e-commerce, would be in doubt. Fortunately, support for SOAP is widespread, and mature implementations are […]

Arent we smarter than this? News that a hacker recently accessed as many as 8 million Visa and MasterCard accounts would have been shocking if we werent becoming so disturbingly numb to such break-ins. We really cant go on this way if retail e-commerce is to become a permanent, trusted part of our lives. How […]