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"We have broken new ground here," Bharath Kadaba, vice president and general manager for Siebel's Universal Application Network, told the E-Commerce Times. "Universal Application Network can be used to integrate not only Siebel CRM systems, but all applications throughout the enterprise."

"If companies feel SCO has a chance of winning, they may decide to cut out the suspense and get on with things," Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) principal analyst Stacey Quandt told the E-Commerce Times. "But I think most are going to hold their ground and wait to see what happens. There's still more questions than answers."

Christopher Faulkner, CEO of hosting provider C I Host, told the E-Commerce Times that during the holiday season, a 35 percent increase in traffic is not unusual "The worst thing you can do is assume you're not going to have a traffic spike," he said. "By not preparing, you're...

The new features are the result of hundreds of usability tests as well as customer feedback, Yahoo Shopping vice president Rob Solomon told the E-Commerce Times. "Web users are gravitating to search destinations now," Solomon said, pointing to data that shows 60 percent of We...

Meta Group program director Chris Kozup told the E-Commerce Times that 3G in the United States currently is more of a marketing message than an actuality. Instead of rolling out true 3G, major vendors are falling back on a transitional technology known as "2.5G." Often, however, they are calling it 3G in an effort to capture more mind share for 3G's capabilities, since true 3G is their eventual goal...

"A lot of workers are already comfortable with Word and Excel, so if there's a way to make those programs do more heavy lifting in an enterprise, that's going to be appealing," Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times. "The fact that companies are already paying for this software is another selling point."

Juan Cabezas, senior vice president of global management and strategic relationships at GE Interlogix, told the E-Commerce Times that his company's new relationship with IBM offers enterprises a holistic approach to security that integrates Interlogix' physical security products with IBM's logical security solutions...

"The Internet sector has rebounded nicely, and that's buying a lot of time and patience for AOL," UBS Warburg analyst Christopher Dixon told the E-Commerce Times. "The big-picture stuff about how well the Internet really complements the rest of the media biz is still up in the air for a lot of people, though." ...

As Ravi Sood, Voodoo CEO, told the E-Commerce Times: "We go to win awards, that's our primary driver for marketing. It's easy to say you're the best, and put out ads saying you're the best, but without third-party validation of that fact, how can customers trust that it's actually true?"...

"The reason you see both Liberty and the IBM/Microsoft group working on security first is that [they] know that's a big stumbling block right now," Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Web-services research firm ZapThink LLC, told the E-Commerce Times IBM and Microsoft said their ...

One way to reduce these vulnerabilities is to take advantage of developers' patches, said Bill Hancock, vice president of security and CTO at Cable & Wireless, in an interview with the E-Commerce Times. "Most people don't patch correctly," he said. "Eighty-five percent of all...

"Everyone has their sights set on the home in terms of where the next big market is going to lie," IDC senior analyst for semiconductors Shane Rau told the E-Commerce Times. He noted that hardware makers, such as Dell and Gateway, already have begun to feature consumer electronics in their product lines.

"The leader right now is Dreamweaver, followed by GoLive in second," Michael Calore, senior technical editor at Webmonkey, told the E-Commerce Times. "Macromedia has done a good job over the years of crafting Dreamweaver into 'the' building tool for developers. The product is extensively user-tested, and it shows. GoLive is still a solid program, but Adobe missed out when GoLive first went to market by trying to make the interface too similar to their other products and by not paying close enough attention to usability...

Meta Group vice president Daniel Sholler told the E-Commerce Times that Sun has taken aim at the tangle of pricing and licensing issues that daunt many enterprises, aiming to simplify matters by pricing all software the same and issuing updates on a predetermined schedule "Mos...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux' potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun's proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more mission-critical functions What is the future of Solaris in a world where Linux shares th...

Gartner analyst Ben Wood told the E-Commerce Times that Motorola lends instant credibility to Microsoft's wireless push. Although other device makers' products have used the Windows Mobile platform, such as a Pocket PC from Sprint, most have gained little traction. "Anything ...

"You went with [Sun Microsystems'] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for the database, used EMC for storage, and Cisco for routers," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times Since then, this architecture formula has become outmoded for ...

Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica, told the E-Commerce Times that Striva's mainframe data integration software is the gold standard in its sector. He called the acquisition a seminal move in Informatica's quest to maintain its leading position in the data integration space...

"They had bottomed out, so the comparisons aren't robust ones," Trigg told the E-Commerce Times. "At the same time, the fact they've made some internal corrections might help them outperform expectations if business improves in the new few quarters." Unsurprisingly, the compan...

"There would probably be some antitrust concerns, but imagine Google and Yahoo together," he told the E-Commerce Times. "They could name it Goohoo." On a slightly more serious note, Aberdeen Group analyst Kent Allen told the E-Commerce Times that there are several companies he...