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"Today's e-commerce thought leaders are much more likely to be from established companies that recognized what the Web could do and grabbed on," Alan Montgomery, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told the E-Commerce Times. "The next big thing might be a pure play, but it's more likely that regular companies doing business online is where e-commerces future lies."

Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that .NET and Web services in general have suffered from confusion and failed attempts to broadly define the initiative. "Microsoft is improving in how it delivers the message, but it's got a long way to go," Smith said. H...

One key reason for the company's success is its ability to sell both software and hardware at reasonable margins -- a goal that has eluded many PC makers, which have found their hardware products commoditized. In fact, hardware is "still Apple's bread and butter," Roger Kay, director of client computing at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times.

Improved features will include the "ability to go inside a rental property, a condo or a hotel using streaming video, and be able to walk from the lobby out into the pool and see what the resort looks like before you book it," Bartels told the E-Commerce Times ...

Matthew Davis, director of broadband access technologies at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the type of content driving broadband adoption remains the same as it was a few years ago -- network gaming and the ability to download larger movie and music files But...

"The Web is an ideal place for comparison shopping," Nielsen//NetRatings senior Internet analyst Dawn Brozek told the E-Commerce Times. She noted that comparison shopping sites, such as Dealtime and MySimon, often rank among the top shopping destinations. "But e-tailers have to know who their at-risk shoppers are, which ones are actively comparison shopping." ...

The overall business climate should dictate the fate of a truly good business plan -- online or offline. "If I had a great idea, I would not wait for the business cycle to turn around," Tucci told the E-Commerce Times. "I would do what I needed to make it happen." ...

One factor is that as enterprises inch toward the end of the third quarter, they may have exhausted already-reduced budgets, Giga Information Group analyst Jim Slaby told the E-Commerce Times "The other factor is there may still be a little bit of a hangover from the bubble bu...

But are Dell's latest moves part of a larger strategy that will see the company shunning partnerships in the long run? Dell spokesperson Mary Fad told the E-Commerce Times that the decisions to terminate the reseller agreements were made by HP and Cisco, respectively, not by Dell.

"Ameritrade looks like a survivor," Barnard told the E-Commerce Times, "though it's clear it's going to be a while before any of the brokerages can point to a turnaround." ...

This is far from a black-and-white issue. In a Morgan Stanley survey of 225 CIOs, security software ranked second behind integration as their top priority. But Eric Hemmendinger, research director for security and privacy at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times that companies "are not doing as much as they could be doing" for a variety of reasons...

UCS president Sherman Atkinson told the E-Commerce Times that Fandango is a "logical fit" for Buy.com because both sites focus heavily on entertainment. "This is a strategic push for them," he said, noting that Fandango was seeking to ramp up its e-commerce offerings. ...

In terms of watchdog agencies that monitor e-commerce fraud, "there isn't much [out] there -- and it's a problem. Millions of credit card numbers have been compromised because of weak security on e-commerce sites," GartnerG2 research director Rich Mogull told the E-Commerce Times. "The real goal should be to stop it before it hits that level."

"This is a logical step for both companies," Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of systems software research at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times For IBM, extending its Linux offerings means it can sell more services and hardware, according to Kusnetzky. Meanwhile, Red Hat will benefi...

Online shopping malls like Yahoo! Shopping and Web-based auctioneers like eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) are flourishing, and small e-tailers can gain an edge in this climate. To do so, they must leverage such sites to their benefit, Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times. "Large companies are hindered by all sorts of organizational and even acknowledged technological issues that prevent them from experimenting with auctions," she said...

The Napster offer -- the only one made public for any of the assets of the company, which is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy -- may be a blessing for the music industry, Yankee Group analyst Michael Goodman told the E-Commerce Times. "The industry has been so obsessed with Napster in...

"If someone says their company is a dot-com now, I know what that means," Wharton School of Business professor Peter Fader told the E-Commerce Times. "It tells the consumer what to expect. It's part of the brand message." ...

"It's not fair to say that e-commerce is dead, but it's very fair to say that multichannel retailing is clearly on the rise and dominating the success in that space," Forrester Research analyst Jim Crawford told the E-Commerce Times But according to GartnerG2 analyst Geri Spie...

"Compaq brought with it some decent direct capability and had high sales in direct business for North America. They had been increasing their direct business right along," Kay told the E-Commerce Times At the same time, the sales model shift also will help the company's bottom...

"People turn to search engines more and category sites less as they become more familiar with the Web, and Google has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of that in the past year or so," NetRatings director and senior analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times. But as sc...