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Brent Rusick, Buy.com's chief operating officer, told the E-Commerce Timesthat the e-tailer plans to run the promotion for as long as possible "Attorneys get involved and make you say things like 'limited time,'" Rusicksaid. "We're going to run this as long as [it is a] big dr...

"Oracle has used the number one rating in years past as a marketing tool," she said to the E-Commerce Times. "They never contested the methodology before they dropped to number two." ...

If Amazon.com were not such a class act, if it were not the undisputed e-tail champion, the company's Gold Box promotion would be a joke ...

Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that Sun has littlechoice but to compete more aggressively "Sun has to continue to release products that compete with the Intel-based technologiesthat are moving into the market," Enderle said. "They are incr...

"It's a bit of a risk, but Jeff Bezos has never been afraid to take risks," Morningstar analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They're obviously seeing how low they can put the threshold before the negatives outweigh the positives." While the move no doubt will cost...

IBM product manager Barbara Butler told the E-Commerce Times that clustered IBM Unix-based servers powered the official Web site of the most recent Olympic Games, allowing huge numbers of users to access schedules and competition results. Online brokerages also are using clus...

"Virtually everything with Amazon is home-grown," Gartner research director Whit Andrews told the E-Commerce Times ...

The eBay expansion comes as little surprise to analysts. Morningstar analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that real estate is one of thepotential big-ticket areas -- along with cars and computers -- in which eBay haslong hoped to generate significant revenue Accordi...

Giga Information Group analyst Joel Yaffe told the E-Commerce Times that the deal seems promising for both parties. Yaffe noted that Loudcloud has a strong product offering and that its biggest problem has been its financial position, which might have scared off some customer...

"You can't underestimate the distraction factor," Giga Information Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "When executives are traveling to depositions and making court appearances, they're not focusing on new products and taking care of customers." The highest-p...

Yankee Group analyst Harry Tse told the E-Commerce Times that while the lower earnings and losses were not devastating for IBM, they represented a setback for a near-term tech recovery. "It's not that bad [for IBM], but it's not a good indicator of where the industry is headi...

"It's no coincidence that the sectors with the biggest productivity gains are also the ones that have announced the most job cuts," CGC CEO John Challenger told the E-Commerce Times "These industries have made strides in improving efficiency through technology and other means,...

"I think the main problem with Microsoft, and with them trying to protect Windows, is that it's impossible to secure and audit that quantity of source code in such a short period of time," Oliver Friedrichs, director of engineering at SecurityFocus, told the E-Commerce Times ...

"We want to be humble going in," Alex Grossman, Apple's director of server and storage hardware, told the E-Commerce Times. "We think we're going to have the best system going, but we want to make sure we position this correctly." Although the company is cagey about its market...

Michael Goodman, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the planned moves by Sony and Universal are about "more than just lowering prices." He said a more significant aspect is that the record labels "are making more titles available online and l...

"Investors hadn't let regulatory hurdles throw water on their interest in PayPal at all," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "It looks like they're starting to put some of those issues behind them." ...

Not necessarily, according to analysts. "There's less money across the board, but the dollars that once would have gone into marketing have been put into R&D," Kent Allen, an analyst with the Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Most companies' boards are not demanding that they spend US$1 million a month to build brand."

Amid the chaos of the past two weeks, when travel companies were tripping over one another to cut deals, merge and otherwise grab whatever they could while the grabbing was good, Priceline.com.com was just as busy as its competitors. ...

Online music services face an uncertain future. Yankee Group senior analyst Michael Goodman told the E-Commerce Times that although nearly three-fourths of homes with broadband Web access use their computers to play music, the music industry has not decided how it will use the Web and is still unsure whether digital music is good or bad.

"Online retailing certainly learned from the early years," Shop.org chairman Elaine Rubin told the E-Commerce Times ...