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IDC storage analyst Brad Nisbet told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft is well positioned to take advantage of growth in the market because it is aligned with several top vendors in a shifting market landscape. Earlier this year, EMC lost the top spot to Network Appliance, and Dell and HP also have made major gains.

"How many of the people susceptible to [worms] are going to get the cold? That's now measured in minutes -- not days or weeks," Hameroff told the E-Commerce Times. "The time between a vulnerability being identified and an attack that leverages and exploits it has decreased dramatically."

Oracle spokesperson Jim Finn told the E-Commerce Times that Oracle will not shy away from discussing the PeopleSoft acquisition at its weeklong OracleWorld gathering, but that the main focus is on Oracle's overall vision of the next generation of database and computing power.

From its inception, WebSphere was intended to integrate e-commerce into the enterprise, Brian Adler, IBM WebSphere Commerce program director, told the E-Commerce Times. Now, years later, the market is at last seeing the benefits of this strategy, he added "E-commerce is not so...

"Servers are often dedicated to running one application each, so migrating a server to Linux has been fairly clean and straightforward," Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "The desktop is a much more cluttered, busy environment, and the bulk of applications running there are already written for Windows."

John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that as the IT department integrates with other departments, corporations will experience sharply increased need for employees who can explain technology, interact with customers and manage projects...

"[Users] won't stop sharing," he told the E-Commerce Times. "They will just go to protected P2P clients, such as Freenet, where it is not possible to tell where a person downloaded a file." ...

The technology has been appealing to enterprises that are eager to get as much use as possible out of technology they already have bought, IDC analyst Carl Olofson told the E-Commerce Times. "The problem with the notion of tying grids together into a cohesive unit has always ...

"It's one thing to go up against illegal file sharers, another to go up against the ACLU," he told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm guessing the ACLU has a bit more money to spend" on protecting citizens from such an action ...

Gartner analyst Betsy Burton told the E-Commerce Times that J.D. Edwards customers may be the biggest beneficiaries of the newly clarified road map from PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft's own customers are still waiting for the Oracle deal to be either put to rest or consummated. "Unti...

"When we started this company a year ago, there were 40 companies that did some kind of anti-spam software," Bratton told the E-Commerce Times. "Now there are 170. Of those, there are nearly 40 that now provide some type of challenge-response offering." Brian Cartmell, CEO of ...

Microsoft's decision to publish the warnings underscores its tenuous position with regard to the security of its products, which are a favorite target of hackers because of their ubiquitous and high-profile nature, industry analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "If t...

"We focus in on the amount of time and effort that's required to complete a task," Troy Brown, divisional vice president for e-commerce at Eddie Bauer, told the E-Commerce Times. "We look at how much effort it takes for them to complete a task and how many customers enter a pipeline and don't finish a task or make that purchase." ...

ITAA president Harris N. Miller told the E-Commerce Times that the group of companies will strive to educate the public about risks of identity theft. Consumer education not only is the best protection against this crime, he said, but also will help calm fears harbored by some would-be online shoppers.

"With more customers moving to broadband, companies need to know their sites are available and responding the way they're supposed to," John Klinke, senior product manager at Web performance measurement firm Keynote Systems, told the E-Commerce Times. "The user's experience is going to determine if they're going to continue to use the site as a channel to interact with that company or not."

Gartner vice president David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that the Asian governments are responding to calls from smaller software companies in their countries that are finding it difficult to compete with Windows. "A patchwork approach probably won't work because one of t...

"SCO has definitely made companies more cautious about deploying Linux," industry analyst Stacey Quandt told the E-Commerce Times. "They now have to assess their tolerance for risk and understand that SCO has to prove its case." Amid the SCO challenge, which could drag on for ...

This year has seen a lot of ink spilled over Apple's PowerBook line of computers, in particular the high-end 17-inch model. Critics drooled over the unprecedented size of the laptop's screen and the elegant and relatively lightweight case, to say nothing of the sex appeal of the polished aluminum finish ...

Bozman told the E-Commerce Times that the end of a lengthy, nine-quarter decline in server sales might indicate that the market's bottom has been reached. "If nothing else, it probably means that enterprises are taking another look at their infrastructure and giving more cons...

"Dial-up use is not so much a regional issue as it is a demographic issue," she told the E-Commerce Times. "Typically, broadband users have higher incomes and can afford the extra cost. This means that even if legislation would bring broadband out to more suburbs and rural areas, it's not guaranteed that it would significantly impact the amount of dial-up customers."