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"IT research has to change along with the industry," IBM senior vice president Paul Horn told the E-Commerce Times. "Research has to be driven by the real problems being faced by enterprises as they try to adapt." Horn said IBM's on-demand division is already at work on new p...

Sun Microsystems reportedly has been the only vendor to sign on thus far. Sun spokesperson Lisa Poulson told the E-Commerce Times that the company signed a nondisclosure agreement so it could view the Windows licensing agreement. Because the license was restrictive and royalt...

The idea, Morningstar.com stock analyst Mark Sellers told the E-Commerce Times, is to expose shoppers to the range of items available on eBay in order to drive up sales "EBay has set very high goals for itself in terms of growth," Sellers said. "If it's going to meet them, it ...

"I'm not expecting people to buy a lot of physical goods and services [via m-commerce]," IDC analyst Keith Waryas told the E-Commerce Times ...

"It's really seeking to position HP as a progressive technology solutions company, not just a printer company that bought a PC company, which is the current perception based on some of our market research," HP spokesperson Rebeca Robboy told the E-Commerce Times ...

Small businesses currently can operate a hosted storefront with limited catalog and transaction volume for as little as US$50 to $100 per month, Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. But sites with larger catalogs that receive higher traffic require more advanced software and platforms from such providers as shopping-cart software maker Miva, Microsoft and IBM. Such sites can cost between $20,000 and $40,000 to establish and between $10,000 and $15,000 per year to maintain...

Nielsen//NetRatings director and senior analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times that online merchants appear to have snagged many shoppers with late fall sales and promotions. "We usually don't see a jump in activity until after Halloween, but this year it started befor...

"By and large, the market reacts very positively to companies that meet or beat and harshly to those that fall short," Morningstar.com stock analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a natural reaction, at least initially." While the bigger picture often comes int...

"It's not a numbers-drive game where we're trying to reduce by a certain percent in every organization," Denton told the E-Commerce Times. "We're looking at it and saying, 'What do we need to do to make sure we're protecting our ability to deliver on our product and technology road maps?'"...

As the U.S. economy continues to traverse shaky ground, companies are askingmore of their IT departments. "Overwhelmingly, what companies are doing ismaintaining the existing IT capability and trying to run that more efficiently with fewer people, fewer resources and fewer inputs into the system," Yankee Group program manager Andy Efstathiou told the E-Commerce Times...

While de Castro's background led many to believe AOL would push to revive its slumping ad income, version 8.0 of AOL's software actually blocked some pop-up ads in an effort to improve customer satisfaction, Gartner analyst Charles Abrams told the E-Commerce Times. "The decis...

"With OpenOffice.org, it's ... try before you buy, but you never have to do the 'buy' part," Carr told the E-Commerce Times ...

"HP's real task is to prove [over the] long term that this was the right move, that its products fit the marketplace in enough places to make it matter," Yankee Group analyst Robert Perry told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a big job." ...

Rumors of the company's death are premature, insists Sanjay Gupta, BroadVision's new senior vice president of marketing and alliances. "There's no real issue in terms of our viability," he told the E-Commerce Times. "We ended the third quarter with more than $130 million in cash, and actually burned through only $2.3 million during the quarter." In fact, Gupta said he expects BroadVision will return to profitability in the fourth quarter.

"We're now expanding ourautonomic capability across our entire product portfolio," IBM spokesperson Michael Loughran told the E-Commerce Times. ...

In similarly ambitious fashion, Dell promised investors last April that it would double its revenue in the next four to five years. Although sales in enterprise and worldwide markets areexpected to help the company achieve that goal, IDC senior analyst David Daoud told the E-Commerce Times that Dell also needs to reach into other areas.

Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon's clothing move will have an impact on holiday sales, since consumers are already comfortable with shopping on the site. "Amazon's involvement in apparel sales will give that category a boost," she said.

In the same vein, HP spokesperson Rebeca Robboy told the E-Commerce Times that the merger has enabled the company to "deliver more for less," improve its competitiveness and ensure growth over the long term ...

Lehman Brothers semiconductor analyst Dan Niles told the E-Commerce Times that the SIA forecast for next year may prove to be too optimistic. "I think the numbers might be a little aggressive, but I think that things are getting better for next year," he added, predicting a more modest figure of 13 to 15 percent growth in chip revenue in 2003.

But Gartner Dataquest vice president Leslie Fiering told the E-Commerce Times that even those businesses most likely to adopt Tablets will take a wait-and-see approach, possibly buying small batches of the devices for testing purposes before making major investments. In fact,...