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"I don't think you're going to see any more 1998s and 1999s of telecomcompanies shooting to the moon, in terms of stock prices or revenue growth,"Frost & Sullivan analyst Rod Woodwardtold the E-Commerce Times. "It's going to be a lot more managed, and it'sgoing to reflect much more tempered budgets and tempered spending habits oftelecom companies' enterprise customers."

Forrester Research analyst Nate Root told the E-Commerce Times that although all of IBM's purchases make sense, challenges remain when it comes to bringing them together into a market force. "I think most customers still wonder about the big picture and how it all fits," Root...

"We've had users report anywhere from three times to 100 times improvement in the amount of storage that a given staff could manage," Gartner research director Bob Passmore told the E-Commerce Times. According to Passmore, the SAN market was worth US$6 billion in 2001, and ne...

"We believe we have a more competitive product mix and a richer product mix, and the combination of those things is reflecting in the increase in our expectations for the quarter," AMD spokesperson Morris Denton told the E-Commerce Times AMD will report fourth-quarter results ...

Generally, cost savings for a company range from 25 to 40 percent. "A lot of companies that haven't looked at this already are starting because it is hard to ignore -- especially in this economy -- the financial advantages [of] doing this," Gartner research director Frances Karamouzis told the E-Commerce Times. "So, if you can get it to work, it can be beneficial."

"AOL is in a unique position in that it's dealing with a lot of internal issues," IDC vice president Richard Villars told the E-Commerce Times. "Scrape away some of that, and you still have a strong portal that can help direct millions of online users toward content and commerce. I think AOL's outlook is just that: AOL's."

Bob Parker, senior analyst at AMR Research, said that may be true. "We may be seeing the age of the independent ISP going away over time," he told the E-Commerce Times. "From a consumer point of view, I certainly think that's a valid hypothesis." ...

But Nielsen//NetRatings chief e-commerce analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times that online sites seem poised to claim a bigger chunk of consumers total holiday budget than in previous years. "We're seeing consumers shift their budgets toward the online space," she sai...

For example, those who invested in Amazon.com at the beginning of 2002 have watched the company's stock skyrocket 124 percent because Amazon's business is thriving. Efforts to attract buyers and reduce costs have paid off. "Most people now seem to agree that Amazon will be a survivor and not go bankrupt," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "And it's done a good job of reviving its growth, which was a major issue last year."

"It's about in line with our expectations," WSTS Americas vice chairman Bill Jewell told the E-Commerce Times Jewell said the figures are on par with WSTS' forecast of 2.3 percent growth for all of 2002, after a devastating 32 percent drop in sales last year -- the industry's ...

The same cannot be said of forecasting online holiday sales revenue, however. "It's getting to be more predictable because it's getting to bemore of an established reality," GartnerG2 research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times. "The kinks have been worked out. You've got moreestablished players that are more seasoned. You've got a larger and widerconsumer base. You have very high satisfaction with their experience lastyear."

Amazon spokesperson Kristin Schaefer told the E-Commerce Times that the two companies have reached an agreement, but that details are not being disclosed at this time. The deal reportedly will be structured similarly to one with Borders, which tapped Amazon to operate its onl...

"We've been a perennial story in terms of, 'Will we survive?'" Novell director of communications Bruce Lowry told the E-Commerce Times. "They've been asking that for the past 15 years. We're 20 years old, so that should be part of the answer." ...

And Electronic Frontier Foundation legal director Cindy Cohn told the E-Commerce Times that even the case's narrower implications are significant. "It puts to rest the notion that you can drag someone into California court simply because he should have known that a Web public...

"The Internet is clearly a fixture in the middle- and upper-class home," Columbia University professor and marketing consultant Ruth Stevens told the E-Commerce Times. "It's become like the phone or electricity -- the idea of its unavailability is just incomprehensible." ...

Giga Information Group vice president Craig Symons told the E-Commerce Times that lower-level programming has been hurt the most by current conditions. Amid the carnage, though, he identified Java, XML and Web services as better opportunities than other areas of programming expertise.

The prepaid cards, similar to those sold for long-distance telephone service, are already for sale at Western Union and Target stores and will be available in Office Depot stores before Christmas, AOL spokesperson Jim Whitney told the E-Commerce Times. The cards cost US$14.99...

"Tech, overall, is not an attractive place to make money," Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. He cited a low rate of revenue growth and an unhealthy forecast for near-term tech spending as factors in his negative forecast Morningstar.com a...

"Much of the heavy lifting has been done," HP spokesperson Rebeca Robboy told the E-Commerce Times, "but there is still more work to be done with our cost structures to realize the full benefits of the merger in our enterprise and key businesses." ...

"You're going to get all kinds of crazy people saying all kinds of crazy stuff," GartnerG2 research director Geri Spieler told the E-Commerce Times. "They're notreliable comments. You may get some idiot who doesn't know how to use acamera, and you don't know if that person has a legitimate complaint or ifhe's just a malcontent."