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"It confirms what most of us suspected," Jeff Roster, senior analyst in Gartner's IT Services group, told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"It has really caught on in the last 12 months," Louis Columbus, an analyst with AMR Research, told the E-Commerce Times. He noted that XML has become somewhat of a de facto standard Columbus said that for enterprises to get the most out of order-management applications, a key...

"The problem is that nobody is looking to convert to a new computer architecture," Forrester Research analyst Carl Howe told the E-Commerce Times. "As a result, HP is going to have to hit some very targeted applications to be successful." Indeed, while national laboratories ne...

EBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that while eBay and PayPal discussed an acquisition early this year, the deal came together in the last four weeks, after PayPal announced it was planning a secondary stock offering. That move drove PayPal shares lower...

"Traffic is still important, but most everyone in the e-commerce space recognizes that's just one piece of a much larger puzzle now," Nielsen//NetRatings director and senior analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times. "The questions we get now are about figuring out that whole mix."

"Trying to regulate and control the mechanisms by which people gamble or do other illegal, immoral acts with the aid of the Internet is like trying to regulate who uses what freeway at a given time of day," Louis Columbus, an analyst with AMR Research, told the E-Commerce Times...

But Microsoft refused outright to compromise, choosing to play the odds and "challenging the judge to craft a decision on her own," Aberdeen Group chief research officer Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. If the conclusion is unfavorable to Microsoft, the company would ...

A long, long time ago, before Amazon.com modified its "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" slogan to encompass all the other merchandise on its virtual shelves, e-commerce took its first baby steps by selling books to the worlds hungry readers. ...

"Gap has had troubles over the past year and Amazon has looked to offline stores to extend their offline offerings," Forrester analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. "With that, you can definitely see some interesting possibilities." ...

"Amazon has become the poster child for this now," Forrester director Kate Delhagen told the E-Commerce Times Delhagen said that much of Amazon's relative financial well-being, compared with other pure-play retailers, can be attributed to the site-building and hosting services...

By comparison, dot-coms cut more than 2,000 jobs in May. But the respite might be just a temporary lull in the action, as corporate failures inside and outside the tech world almost certainly guarantee more layoffs, company CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "T...

"It's important for Microsoft to get everything together and continue to deliver on the vision," Yankee Group analyst Robert Perry told the E-Commerce Times. "It provides confidence for organizations that have committed to .NET that it's real and that all the pieces are falling into place."

But Forrester analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times that eBay may have to put up with the grumbling if it wants to grow "They need to draw retailers in because they need more mainstream buyers," she said. "Then, consumers who were hesitant to bid will get over their...

"When you hit the wall that hard, it takes a while to get back up again," Gartner senior vice president Al Case told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi told the E-Commerce Times that both acquisitions flesh out parts of Cisco's overall strategy "The Hammerhead acquisition extends some of Cisco's platforms that they sell to cable operators," Fabbi said. "They are looking at adding some advanced servi...

Yet, despite the swirl of allegations and an overall malaise in the telecom industry due to the economic slump, WorldCom should not be counted out, Eastman told the E-Commerce Times. After expressing "shock" over the revelations, WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore asserted in a video...

For example, Forrester research director Kate Delhagen told the E-Commerce Times that online sales accounted for US$51.3 billion in revenue during 2001. Revenue for 2002 is expected to total $72.1 billion, a 41 percent increase over last year, she added Indeed, online commerce...

Forrester Research analyst Maribel Dolinov told the E-Commerce Times that while WorldCom customers should not have to worry about disruptions in service right away, the news does underscore that they should consider establishing backup systems for all of their vital communications services.

The research company has criticized telecommunications regulators before, both in the United States and elsewhere. Gartner spokesperson Christy Pettey told the E-Commerce Times that the present analysis grew out of previous surveys and reports Gartner has conducted According t...

Every day, eBay looks more and more like the strongest swimmer in the dot-com pool ...