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Looking back at IBM's acquisition of Lotus Development Corporation in 1995, Pang told the E-Commerce Times that Lotus management initially resisted IBM's advances but then yielded after a short while. In that case, Lotus' decision to merge with IBM saved it, since if it had remained independent, Microsoft would soon have devoured it...

"Oracle may yet take control of PeopleSoft, but it could take a lot longer than anyone expects," Burton told the E-Commerce Times. "In that scenario, shareholders worry about the damage to the business of all the companies involved. A long period of uncertainty and relative chaos could be deadly."

Determining the prevalence of identity theft in cyberspace is a contentious issue, because the FTC, which is charged with serving as a clearinghouse for such information, insists its data is far from definitive. "No one really knows how much identity theft is out there," the commission's Claudia Bourne Farrell told the E-Commerce Times. "If you drop your wallet on the street, and the next day someone is using your account at Saks Fifth Avenue, you make the connection. If someone's using your data online and your cards are still in your wallet, it's hard to know you've been robbed." ...

"If shareholders get excited about this new offer, it might be enough to give pause over the Edwards deal," Temkin told the E-Commerce Times. "But at this point, there is more uncertainty than anything else." In fact, Temkin noted that PeopleSoft likely moved up its deal with ...

It would be a gross understatement to say the Mac faithful are eagerly awaiting a new office productivity suite from Apple. For rumor sites and Mac-focused blogs, the arrival of such software would be a touchstone, a new battle royale in which to turn up one's nose at the leading productivity suite, made by that big software company in Redmond. ...

Oracle spokesperson Jim Finn told the E-Commerce Times that the company raised its bid after hearing from owners of PeopleSoft stock. "We have had several meetings over the past week or so with shareholders," Finn said. "We heard the deal seemed to make a lot of sense, for th...

It was the kind of day a relatively young, publicly traded dot-com dreams about when it's just a startup daring to dream. Netflix had come out the night before and said that instead of posting an expected quarterly loss, it would turn in a strong profit, its first ever. ...

Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail told the E-Commerce Times that such tough action is necessary because most passive and defensive approaches to stopping the flood of e-mail have failed so far. "Filters are falling short," Nail said, noting that even if Microsoft's lawsuits...

It is clear from speaking with Google and its customers that the search appliance is an easy sell at the moment. In fact, Google product manager John Piscitello told the E-Commerce Times that the product pretty much sells itself, as the company's brand is well known and businesses already want to implement its search algorithm on their internal networks.

Microsoft is backing away from the Web browser business. On the heels of its late May disclosure that it will cease developing new stand-alone versions of Internet Explorer for Windows, the company has announced it is abandoning the Mac browser market entirely. IE as a project is not dead -- new versions will be integrated into future Windows releases, starting with Longhorn in 2005 -- but from a user perspective, it is dormant, at least for now...

"Even if the money and time they spend fighting doesn't turn up in its quarterly results, it still is hanging over them," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm sure they'd really like to end this year being able to look back and say they ended as many lawsuits and challenges as possible. That will enable them to start looking forward to bigger things again in 2004."

"Outsourcing purely for financial reasons is not the best bet," Secord told the E-Commerce Times. "You need to be comfortable in yourability to develop a relationship with an outsourcing firm, and trust that their best-practice methodology is proven." He added that a primary r...

The overseas market is a logical place to seek growth, and Yahoo makes a good partner for BT, Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times "Yahoo brings a lot to the table for a broadband user in terms of content and the Web experience," Li said. Even thoug...

Laura DiDio, senior analyst of application infrastructure and software platforms at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the Munich decision has a great deal of symbolic public relations value "Munich is one of the largest cities in Germany, the country with the st...

"It's exactly what domestic car dealers do," Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. "They keep the sticker price the same but experiment with the discount. With IT rebates, the same principle applies. It allows for a stable list price." Also, because the retailer and the supplier ...

EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that eBay plans to maintain the Chinese brand name but will transition the English-language version of EachNet to the eBay brand over time. "The Chinese brand name is already well known by Internet users in China, and we want to build on that success," he said...

"Cisco had been viewed as a new-economy company in some ways [before now] and wasn't really trusted to handle the traffic of major telcos," IDC analyst Sterling Perrin told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a big step for them." From Cisco's perspective, of course, the deal may ...

Larry Ellison is by all accounts as charismatic and visionary as any other technology CEO. But he's kept a much lower profile of late than his counterparts ...

"There are efficiencies and cost savings to be had that will drive adoption," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The ability to have real-time collaboration and to do it without traveling to meetings or making a lot of expensive calls is compelling." However, citing Yankee Group f...

IDC analyst Roger Kay told the E-Commerce Times that sales to enterprises in the United States were down in the first quarter, but his expectations are still that larger businesses will start to make major equipment purchases later this year, with a burst of growth next year.