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Adam Engst, publisher of the Mac community newsletter TidBits, told the E-Commerce Times that he believes the company is not concerned with breaking a certain percentage of market share. "Apple wouldn't complain if it happened, but they're not making the kind of marketing mov...

"Security is a huge concern, but the momentum is still driving adoption of IM," Gartner analyst Lou Latham told the E-Commerce Times, adding that the move away from business travel after September 11, 2001, helped speed IM uptake for long-distance collaboration. "The rush by vendors to produce versions of IM that will stand up to network security standards is a reflection of demand," he said...

"They tried to light a fire under their software," Gartner analyst Brian Zrimsek told the E-Commerce Times, referring to Oracle's recently announced all-in-one licensing program. "But they needed strong growth to make it worthwhile, and it may not have been developing." Separ...

"[The executives at Microsoft] don't have a choice," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times. "If they discover a problem and don't issue a patch right away, and someone later finds out that they knew but didn't attempt to fix it, they could face serious liability issues."

"Open source is sometimes seen as a way to boost local economies by helping small local software or integration firms," Smith told the E-Commerce Times, adding that some customers have been driven away by Microsoft's licensing terms. Ballmer said the reason Linux is a threat ...

The most obvious factor in today's faster e-business growth is simply time spent online. "Broadband has had a huge impact on sales," said Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who observed that as broadband use has increased, so has time spent online by the average shopper. During the same period, online retail numbers also have risen. Although scientific correlation is difficult in such matters, Litan, who also expects to see about $95 billion in total e-tail sales this year, said Gartner's surveys of home shoppers show that permanent Internet connections remove some hesitation from the online shopping process. "People don't have to think about whether to connect," she told the E-Commerce Times...

Three years is a long time, especially in the business world. That's how long it's been since the technology sector, symbolized by the Nasdaq stock exchange, turned its back on the work-all-day-party-all-night lifestyle and decided to stay in and take a long nap. ...

The VeriSign alliance is designed to give Microsoft a well-respected security ally, Forrester Research analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, a likely acknowledgment that Microsoft needs assistance to recover its security reputation. "Microsoft is the biggest and its ...

IBM has managed to post a string of impressive earnings results in recent quarters despite the technology slowdown. However, Forrester analyst Mike Gilpin told the E-Commerce Times, the company's track record stems in large part from its aggressive moves to grab market share in parts of the tech economy that are still growing, such as certain software niches and the outsourcing sector.

Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Cisco has migrated a great deal of its commercial product sales to an online environment by creating e-business sites that are tightly integrated with its sales channel partners and end customers. "Cisco has a very proactive outreach program that makes it easy for customers and clients to create extranets and buying portals," Ritter said. For example, Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group helps customers with their business-to-e-business efforts to help them become a part of the Internet economy...

"Companies that can afford it are going to look for opportunities to grow this way in a downturn," Morningstar.com stock analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They're defensive moves for the short-term, mostly, but designed to pay off down the road when spending picks up again."

ICANN spokesperson Mary Hewitt told the E-Commerce Times that these initiatives helped slash the number of cybersquatters. However, they are not without problems "The Anti-Cybersquatting Act is focused only in the United States," she said. "So, if you have a problem with someo...

"Anytime they can get something off the table for relatively short money, they're probably going to grab it," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, citing earlier settlement agreements that ended class-action consumer suits. "The fact that this deal has some long-range upside for the company only makes it more appealing."

"Web search is where Ask Jeeves got its start, and the business it knows the best," Lancaster told the E-Commerce Times. "The addition of capital, plus the few million it got for its Solutions group, further places Ask Jeeves in a competitive position." ...

"The tech downturn has made everyone -- even the big guys -- more flexible," Cummerford, a former IBM licensing attorney, told the E-Commerce Times. "Because competition is fierce, even where there isn't much price flexibility, there is often flexibility on services and support, response time commitments or service level, and that can translate into savings for the licensee."

Investors are lining up to buy Google shares already. There's only one problem: The company hasn't had an IPO yet and, for that matter, hasn't said it's even close to going public. ...

"The biggest threat to eBay is not competition or even unseen events, but a natural slowing of its growth rate," Morningstar.com stock analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "So far, they've managed to keep the growth going, but [over the] long term that's only going to get more difficult."

Shaw Lively, a research manager at IDC-owned Financial Insights, told theE-Commerce Times that there was rapid growth in the number of playersat first, stunning amateur traders with a wealth of options However, as some e-companies faltered and consumers hungered for otherservi...

An oft-repeated supposition when talking about a new software or hardware product is that in-house IT staff can compensate for what the technology lacks. It's often presumed that somebody on staff can patch, tweak, rejigger or jury-rig technology to make it do what it won't do "out of the box." "Any junior programmer can make that work" is a common refrain.

"There is still a wait-and-see attitude about the merger paying off the way it was supposed to do," UBS Warburg analyst Christopher Dixon told the E-Commerce Times. "They've done more in terms of cross-platform work lately, but the question is still out there, and it's a matter of time before AOL has to show progress or admit it might need to rethink where it's headed."