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"My concern is if it begins to move, and that is still possible, it will probably infect the home user segment, since most corporations will have cleaned any computers infected with MyDoom," Gullotto told the E-Commerce Times ...

Recently, the E-Commerce Times spent some time catching up and looking ahead with Dave Hitz, a co-founder of the company and its executive vice president of engineering ...

IDC analyst Charles Kolodgy told the E-Commerce Times that NetScreen not only has locked in the number-two ranking for security appliances worldwide, but also has seen its sales rise continually, unlike other firms that have seen growth slow "The overall security market is goi...

IDC analyst Susan Kevorkian told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft is working to secure its place in the in-home digital entertainment niche.Part of the company's strategy is to target the content delivery side, rather than relying on consumer preference to carry its standard...

Amity Wall, manager of research operations at VentureOne, told the E-Commerce Times that the latest quarter-to-quarter uptick indicates an increase in stabilization ...

The addition of the copyright claim is an indication that SCO is ready to take every avenue in its lawsuit against IBM, Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times "SCO continues to be persistent in standing up for what they think is an injustice," he said....

Also, in January 2004, MarketWatch acquired news aggregator and distributor Pinnacor. The E-Commerce Times recently interviewed Kramer, who was in Chicago working on merging the two company's sales forces. Here is what he had to say ...

"We consider it to be a major step forward for both the ThinkPad line and notebook computing in general," Grant Shenk, worldwide ThinkPad X Series product manager in IBM's Personal Computing Division, told the E-Commerce Times. The question of whether IBM can trounce major players in the field, such as Sony, will make the notebook wars worth watching in the coming year...

"RAID is a way to increase data availability by striping files across multiple disk drives and adding redundant bits to allow the data to be recovered in case one [or more] disk drives fails during operation," Forrester Research principal analyst Bob Zimmerman told the E-Commerce Times. "DAS, NAS and SAN all use RAID to improve data availability." ...

"PeopleSoft's board of directors, consistent with its fiduciary duties, will meet to review and discuss Oracle's revised tender offer and will make its recommendations to PeopleSoft stockholders in due course," PeopleSoft spokesperson Steve Swasey told the E-Commerce Times ...

"Microsoft is very adept at being prepared for emergencies," Aberdeen Groupanalyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. "They were already focused on security, so it's not surprising that they would be ready." According to Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research in ...

As Peter Kastner, research vice president at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times, "Microsoft walks a fine line between irritating customers with too many updates and not getting critical patches out to the people who need them in time to meet the next 'BIG' one "By sendi...

"In general, transaction success rates are much higher than 95 percent," Ken Godskind, vice president of marketing at Web performance tracker AlertSite, told the E-Commerce Times The Abandonment Factor...

Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research in F-Secure's Helsinki, Finland, office, told the E-Commerce Times that it was interesting to see MyDoom targeting SCO on Saturday night. However, he noted that since the worm precipitated the largest denial-of-service attack in history, such a turn of events was not surprising...

"REI has found that people who buy from two channels, like in-store and online, buy 118 percent more than they do if they use just one," Lautenbach told the E-Commerce Times. "When they use all three, including the kiosks, they buy 48 percent more than if they use two." He als...

Such an array of tactics is what it takes to conquer the growing digital music market. RealNetworks' vice president of music services, Sean Ryan, spoke with the E-Commerce Times recently about his company's strategy to become king of the hill ...

OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen told the E-Commerce Times that Beijing Co-Create's decision to join the OSDL is not surprising because there is tremendous interest in Linux worldwide "The value proposition is so strong to begin with," he said. "[Companies] may have Linux deployed on the...

Ryan Alexander, an attorney specializing in e-commerce with Resonance Law Group, told the E-Commerce Times that while Microsoft waits for the patent office's decision, it could be trying to avoid further difficulty by delaying the tweaks "If you have a product that's within th...

While the J.D. Edwards acquisition decreased PeopleSoft's short-term profits, it may strengthen the company against the Oracle bid. "Most application software acquisitions have [involved] an old, tired software company," Brian Sommer, vice president of research services at Boston-based Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This J.D. Edwards deal was very different, with both companies still in the prime of their product life cycle."

Yankee Group vice president Boyd Peterson told the E-Commerce Times that the advertising world has been doing a lot of soul-searching about where the traditional 30-second commercial will be in the next three to four years. With the proliferation of TiVO and DVR recorders, he said, TV increasingly has become background noise while people surf the Web, IM their friends or cook dinner...