Sites Left Hanging as Web Host Folds
Customers running their online retail operations in Pandesic LLC's hosting environment said this week that they were stunned to learn their application service provider was shutting down.
Stories by Mark Hall
Moore's Buying Cycle
A few weeks ago, I asked Intel Corp.'s CEO Craig Barrett whether perpetually faster processors for desktop machines were necessary for business. He seemed somewhat irritated by the question but mentioned a few things, such as improved data visualization and voice recognition, that should keep driving an IT upgrade cycle that's long been tied to the famous Moore's Law.
SGI Builds High-Performance Servers
Silicon Graphics Inc. has jumped over the latest competitive hurdle in the high-performance computing race with the debut of its new Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000 servers.
Gates Focuses on Microsoft's Future at Analysts Meeting
REDMOND, WASHINGTON (07/27/2000) - True to his new role as Microsoft Corp.'s
chief software architect, Bill Gates today delved deeply into source code and
application development tools while outlining the company's future to a roomful
of Wall Street analysts.
Pay now, pay later
Perhaps the only thing you dread more than reviewing your data centre's cabling and network infrastructure is evaluating your array of software-usage contracts. They can be far more
confusing and frustrating than your most chaotic wiring closet.
Demand for hosting services trails supply
With hosting capacity at application service providers (ASP) growing by leaps and bounds, ASPs are having to be creative to attract new users to their data centres. Despite this oversupply, ASP pricing appears to be holding firm.
The Map of Ourselves
Last week, the world celebrated the complete mapping of the previously uncharted territory of the human genome. It was an amazing accomplishment, one not possible without computers - and similar to the exploration of space, as described in this week's cover story on the SETI project.
Intel CEO, CIO talk e-business
Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, says that he wants the company to be a "100 per cent e-business". With $US1 billion a month in orders being booked online today, his company is just shy of the halfway mark to that goal. He said he expects it to be 90 per cent there by year's end.
Emerging to Applause
Many of the companies named to Computerworld's Top 100 Emerging Companies list have racked up one big win after another in the seven months since the list was published in November. Like other hot companies, the three profiled here can boast growing sales, successful initial public offerings (IPO), new product releases and other milestones.
Daytime TV Justice
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson thinks he's played Solomon by splitting Microsoft Corp. into an operating systems business and an applications business. But it seems more like Judge Judy to me. As I've argued in this space before, Microsoft's PC operating system monopoly is becoming less and less relevant as Linux, handhelds and server-centric computing make desktop issues so, you know, 20th century. Applications, however, are as modern as ever, and the court has just sanctioned the creation of a much more powerful monopoly.
Managing STACS and STACS of Data
The Washington state legislature has a data management problem. Its constituent hot line has topped 2 terabytes (TB) of online storage and keeps growing.
Mainframe Users Eye Distributed Mgmt. with Caution
Despite record-high desert temperatures outside, users at the BMC Assurance 2000 conference here remained cool and cautious to the promise of mainframe-level management services in distributed networks.
Analysis: Unrest in Linux Land
We're in the midst of the first true test of the open-source movement. Linux, open source's poster child, is under fire. Here's just a sampling of Linux's current woes. Last year, if you ran a Linux startup, venture capitalists or Wall Street investors were throwing money at you as if you were a cast member in television's Friends. Now, it's as if they want to cancel your program.
Unrest in Linux Land
We're in the midst of the first true test of the open-source movement. Linux, open source's poster child, is under fire. Here's just a sampling of Linux's current woes. Last year, if you ran a Linux startup, venture capitalists or Wall Street investors were throwing money at you as if you were a cast member in television's Friends. Now, it's as if they want to cancel your program.
User Conference Trumpets Selling Online
Despite recent reports critical of the future of business-to-consumer Web sites and the drubbing of business-to-consumer vendor stocks on Wall Street, attendees at electronic-business software vendor Blue Martini's user conference are remarkably upbeat about the prospects for both new and established operations targeting consumers.