Paula Musich

As staff cuts and money woes decimate boutique Web integrators, major services companies are finding themselves increasingly pressed into action to complete projects the small shops couldnt handle or couldnt finish. The rescue efforts of such enterprise integrators as IBM Global Services and Electronic Data Systems Corp. are offering e-businesses left in the lurch hope, […]

A triple whammy of bad news for the Web-integration services business will likely spell doom for many boutique Web-integration companies. The latest victims of the downturn—Organic Inc. and Cysive Inc.—reported revenue shortfalls and layoffs late last month on the heels of a string of cutbacks by a long and growing list of competitors. And it […]

IT managers signing on with MSPs and other service providers are starting to take those relationships personally, recognizing theyre fraught with temptations and much more complicated than a service that can be switched as easily as one would change a long-distance carrier. With that in mind, the idea of creating what some industry pundits call […]

Few e-tailers are getting much sleep these days, after last years holiday Web traffic brought many sites to their knees. But Gordon Jones is sleeping like a baby. Jones, chief technology officer at startup Babiesrus.com, based in Paramus, N.J., has been assured that if his new site experiences performance problems or outages this year, they […]