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"The idea is one that enterprises like," Scholler told the E-Commerce Times. "No CIO wants his IT group to spend all its time downloading and patching. But the execution and the offerings themselves are what's going to matter in the long run." ...

"The market is flat at best," Yankee Group vice president Zeus Kerravala told the E-Commerce Times. "We're not seeing any growth." IDC research manager Abner Germanow agreed, telling the E-Commerce Times that "there was tremendous purchasing in 2000, [but] a lot of companies w...

"Google just got it right, from the technology to the minimalist interface," Nielsen//NetRatings senior analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times. "The way it took off, it's been clear it really answered a need consumers had for fast search results." Strand added that as I...

"We stopped tracking this a year ago, because retailers weren't really interested in research on the matter," Yankee Group analyst Paul Ritter confirmed in an interview with the E-Commerce Times. He did note that the last studies Yankee conducted on the matter, at the end of 2001, still showed strong interest on the part of shippers...

IDC research manager Ned May told the E-Commerce Times that the expected recovery in tech spending may likely start during 2003, but probably not early enough to substantially lift the sector. The firm, he noted, had predicted the rebound to begin this spring, but first uncertainty and then the actual war with Iraq changed that...

"[It] is not a serious patent application -- probably more of an ego booster for Bezos," patent activist Greg Aharonian told the E-Commerce Times. Aharonian is editor of the Internet Patent News service and has been cited often for activism against what he considers to be spurious claims to original art (i.e. true innovation) in software. He noted that Bezos should have checked patent #6,285,987, granted to Engage, Inc. in 2001, for "a system for providing advertisements from a central server to viewers who access web sites." ...

"This is an opportunity to give our customers the most relevant, useful information possible," Amazon.com spokesperson Drew Herdener told the E-Commerce Times. "If there are things we don't necessarily have on Amazon.com, the Google search engine will allow them to find those things."

As the E-Commerce Times detailed in a recent story on data storage, the last few years have seen a significant revolution toward networked storage and away from disk drives and tape loaders attached directly to corporate servers. In fact, research firm IDC has estimated that by 2006, more than 70 percent of storage will be networked via fibre channel or Ethernet, rather than attached locally to a server via SCSI or another conventional type of disk connection.

"Ever since Enron, any type of restatement gets a lot of attention, and it's not good attention," Kathman told the E-Commerce Times, though he noted that investors have become less likely to overreact to such news of late. Still, he added, "Even when it doesn't change results, it is enough to give investors reason to stop and think."

Similarly, there are ways to make money by selling Linux. Mark de Visser, vice president of marketing at Red Hat, told the E-Commerce Times that his company is confident it can turn a profit. "From all indications, we have come up with a business model that works and that companies appreciate," he said...

Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft's security suffers largely because of the company's success. "I'm not sure any other software firms have figured out security any more than Microsoft, but they don't get targeted the same way ...

Mark Lavelle, vice president of business development at I4, told the E-Commerce Times that his company is targeting a US$400 billion market of Web site and retail catalog shoppers who either do not have a credit card or want to buy without supplying credit card information. The service, offered at Buy.com and eBags, among other sites, lets consumers use their birth date and part of their social security number to make purchases.

"It's a buyer's market," Gartner analyst Ian Brown told the E-Commerce Times. "Vendors are bringing more powerful products to market and at the same time offering lower-price options." Even amid all of this upheaval, however, analysts can point to star products in certain cate...

"Instead, it crashed down," Willis told the E-Commerce Times. "And they quickly found themselves way overextended toward developing new technologies instead of building a solid business, which is what they're trying to fix now." ...

"The thing that concerns me is not just that [a white box is] made from inferior parts, hasn't been burnt in, but also it's not consistent," said Galen Schreck, who covers the server hardware market for Forrester Research. Schreck told the E-Commerce Times that incompatibility is the norm in the PC business. Even different models of Dell machines have subtle variations in BIOS, motherboards and processor chipsets that make installing software on various computers a headache, he said...

"Outsourcing has been on the rise for the past 12 months, and it is continuing to gain momentum," Yankee Group senior analyst Carrie Lewis told the E-Commerce Times Under the agreement, which becomes effective May 1st, CSC will manage Motorola's mid-range, desktop and distribu...

But whether or not consumers will embrace the new message options remains to be seen. Whereas AOL has successfully introduced millions of e-mail users to instant messaging, the voice mail option requires a different mindset, IDC analyst Jonathan Gaw told the E-Commerce Times.

"We are well past the point of inevitability," Drew Engstrom, senior marketing strategist for Web services at Sun Microsystems, told the E-Commerce Times. "On one level, the sale has already been made. Businesses are on board but still figuring things out." There are perhaps ...

IDC research director Ken Presti told the E-Commerce Times that IT outsourcing is poised to explode in the next several years, creating opportunities for blue-chip companies. "An enterprise needs to feel comfortable if it's handing over the keys to its kingdom, so to speak," ...

"Gateway has been trying to diversify their product portfolio for some time,because they're getting killed by Dell's direct channel model," Ryan Jones,senior analyst with the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times He also noted that when it comes to Gateway's business needs, ...