Sendmail Inc. competes in two markets: corporate and Internet service provider. It faces stiff competition in both. Sendmail CEO Greg Olson estimates that one quarter of the company's business is with service providers, while sales to corporate customers make up the rest.
A battle between Ford and General Motors late last month to dominate online purchasing in the auto industry morphed into a collaboration among the Big Three automakers, which joined forces to form a business-to-business Web-based trade exchange.
Geoff Butterfield says he knew exactly what to expect from Sendmail Inc.'s Simple Mail Transfer Protocol gateway and e-mail package - hands-off, user-friendly efficiency - and he says he got it.
Evaluating an IT purchase is a type of due diligence referred to as risk management. The big accounting firms and IT consultancies such as Compass America Inc. in Reston, Va., and Quantitative Software Management Inc. in McLean, Va., tackle technology risk management.
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In an unprecedented move, the world's three largest automakers - General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Daimler-Chrysler AG - last week unveiled plans to join forces on a common Internet automotive trade exchange.
In a deal dubbed a double-edged sword by one analyst, Ford Motor Co. last week launched a joint venture with Trilogy Software Inc. to create a separate firm to handle the automaker's Web-related business-to-business services.
As part of an overall drive to streamline its information technology efforts, General Motors Corp. plans to share computer-based car development, design and engineering systems with the three Japanese automakers in which it holds equity investments, officials said.
Ford Motor Co. recently filed suit and won a temporary injunction against an alleged cybersquatter who Ford claims attempted to infringe upon its trademarks, in one of several Internet domain name disputes involving automakers.
Microsoft Corp. laid out its long-awaited plans for a Web-friendly Visual Studio 7.0 this week and found a receptive audience among the developers at the Visual Basic Insiders Technical Summit here.
Visit the Web address www.GeorgeBushsucks.com, and it will forward you to the presidential candidate's official Web site. George W. Bush is apparently savvy enough to sidestep that online embarrassment, but many corporations are still exposed to cyberbashing, if not cybersquatting.
With its launch of Windows 2000, Microsoft Corp. this week unveiled its plans to better support Web development on that server platform in its Visual Studio 7.0 tool set.
The next turf war in the messaging market won't be among companies trying to sell extensive on-site e-mail systems, analysts said.
Microsoft Corp.'s bid to revamp its Visual Studio tool set to allow developers to create enterprise-ready Web applications met with rave reviews at the Visual Basic Insider's Technical Summit in San Francisco.
Microsoft Corp. announced plans today to gear up its Visual Studio 7.0 development tool for Web development.