Network World back issues from June 2000:
Server-side caches speed e-comm sites.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Nothing can tarnish a Web site's reputation as quickly as poor performance. Research shows that if a page doesn't load in eight seconds or less, visitors will exit and probably not return. For a site that wants to turn those visitors into customers, the effect of poor performance can be ...
Best technology is not always the best business choice.(Technology Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... I am not an engineer, nor do I have any pretense to be one. I view technology from a business functionality perspective, which many times causes some conflicts between me and the technical personnel I manage. In many cases, the most elegant technology is not the best business choice. ...
VoIP gateways side by side; Neura 's ORCA GX-8 tops market leaders with redundancy and management features.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
Jun 05, 2000; ... To implement voice over IP to any extent you need a voice-over-IP gateway - a seemingly magical box that transforms telephone calls between plain old telephone service (POTS) on the one side and an IP data network on the other. We brought three of the leading voice-over-IP gateways into ...
How We Did It.(Testing procedures employed in voice-over-IP gateway evaluations)(Technology Information)
Jun 05, 2000 ... These voice-over-IP gateways were tested according to a comprehensive methodology created by Mier Communications, first applied in 1997, and continually refined and enhanced since. The test-bed topology varies somewhat depending on the metric being tested or measured. An assortment of test ...
Mergers bring valuable experience.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000 ... Mergers bring valuable experience Since mergers are such episodic events in most companies, it is hard to develop the expertise for pulling them off, or even to justify the effort. However, experts say the skills that have just been in ad hoc use during M&As are similar to the ...
Different types of deals.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Different types of deals In this era of merger mania, you need to understand your management's growth strategy and how big a role acquisition plays in it. Are mergers episodic exceptions or a central part of that strategy? And is it an acquire-and-hold strategy in which targets ...
Minimizing mutiny; Here are some tips for keeping staff from jumping ship when your firm is part of a merger or acquisition.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... IT managers tend to focus on technology issues when their companies are undergoing mergers, but workforce management is the real challenge. Whether you want to keep individual staff members permanently or only through the transition, everyone has to be motivated to pull off the ...
Antislamming law muddies RBOC mergers.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Because of a quirk in U.S. telecom law, a potentially confusing shuffle of certain users among carriers involved in mergers is about to begin, even though the mergers haven't yet closed. The Federal Communications Commission has granted regulatory waivers to Qwest Communications ...
ASP model gets high marks from customers.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Last year, I made a not-so-bold prediction in this column that the nascent application service provider (ASP) market was about to take off. It did, in fact, so I'm feeling pretty smart about my prognostication. It wasn't hard to see then that a model that would save the customer money, ...
Second line of defense; New firewalls emerge to handle what traditional ones can't.(Technology Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... The firewall has traditionally served as the sentry between the outside world of the Internet and the internal corporate network. But the next generation of firewalls will be inside the corporate network's perimeter on Web servers, PCs, modems and silicon chips. ...
Message Queue.(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 05, 2000; ... As noted in the recent "Face-off" on biometrics and privacy (May 8, page 143), biometric technologies are carefully designed to prevent someone's identity from being revealed. Also, impostors cannot steal an identity by reverse-engineering the biometric code. Providers of biometric ...
Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 05, 2000 ... Use what makes sense Regarding "Windows 2000 naming conventions under fire" (May 8, page 42): My company is primarily a Unix shop, but we use Microsoft DNS servers because that technology seems to make the most sense to perform that function today. The need to ...
Spit out of the Vortex.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
Jun 05, 2000; ... The invitation-only Vortex 2000 conference two weeks ago drew the usual elite collection of vendor CEOs and industry shakers, everyone from Qwest's Joe Nacchio to UUNET's John Sidgmore to Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard. This is a vendor/venture ...
Look online for telecom buying advice.(Directory)
Jun 05, 2000; ... How on earth does a person find out who offers which services in his area? The Yellow Pages is pretty outdated, and the terminology hardly helps you trim the list. Searching under Yahoo or Lycos only yields a maze of references and unhelpful listings. Here are some sites that ...
BindView smooths way to Win 2000; One new tool focuses on migration to Active Directory.(bv-Control for Active Directory, bv-Admin for Win 2000 Migration 3.5)(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... HOUSTON - Now that its acquisition of former rival Entevo is completed, BindView is again focusing its efforts on tools to help IT executives cut through the clutter of migrating to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. This week, the company will unveil two products for its line ...
infra briefs.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Cisco last week will roll out a LAN switch for midsize companies looking to deploy IP telephony networks. The Catalyst 3524-PWR XL features 24 10/100M bit/sec Ethernet ports and two 1000M bit/sec Gigabit Interface Connector ports. The switch features inline power and quality-of-service ...
apps briefs.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000 ... Aprisma Management Technologies of Durham, N.H., and BMC Software of Houston last week jointly announced a software module that will let companies view network and application management data from the same console. The module, which runs on Windows NT or Solaris, sits on the ...
Critical Path: E-mail outsourcing plus.(David Thatcher, president of Critical Path)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
Jun 05, 2000; ... David Thatcher, president of messaging services company Critical Path, spoke recently with Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan about the company's recent acquisition binge, its plans regarding wireless messaging and what IT executives worry about when they outsource their ...
carrier briefs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000 ... France Telecom last week announced plans to acquire wireless service provider Orange for $40.2 billion. Vodafone AirTouch is selling Orange in order to get final regulatory approval for its planned buyout of German telecommunications service provider Mannesmann AG. If France Telecom's ...
CommVault bolsters network back-up package.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... CommVault introduced software last week that makes it easier for customers with mixed Windows NT, Windows 2000 and NetWare servers to back up and recover files. Galaxy Enterprise 2000 back-up and recovery software lets network professionals back up data by user rather than by ...
Say what you mean and mean what you say.(Column)
Jun 05, 2000; ... I have pushed quite hard for the U.S. government to pass some meaningful laws to protect the privacy of Internet users. Some readers have challenged me to describe any laws that could do anything useful. I'll give it a try. I think there are three principles: Tell me ...
Digital squatters won't budge from Spectrum; Broadcasters demand payment for clearing coveted airwaves for wireless apps.(Government Activity)
Jun 05, 2000; ... The federal government's lucrative spectrum auctions, which have added some $23 billion to the U.S. Treasury, are facing possible derailment. Postponed twice by the Federal Communications Commission and now scheduled for September, the next auction is slated to sell off a huge chunk of ...
New York launches online sex offender registry.(Government Activity)
Jun 05, 2000; ... New York has placed names, pictures, addresses and other information about high-risk sex offenders online. The New York State Sex Offender Registry posts information about the highest-risk offenders online immediately after it is entered into the system. The registry can be ...
Army advances reverse auction.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Taking reverse auctions one step further, the Army's Communications-Electronics Command has tested online procurement software that searches for more information and performs an analysis of the seller. Cecom, Fort Monmouth, N.J., announced May 25 that it had tested the reverse ...
SAS Institute to spin off 'Net B2B company.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... U.S. statistical analysis and data warehousing software vendor SAS Institute last week announced a first for the privately owned company - the spinning off of a business-to-business Internet operation. To be known as iBiomatics LLC, the new spinoff will become a wholly owned ...
Report: Lucent in talks to buy Chromatis for $5.5 billion.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Lucent is in talks to acquire optical networking equipment maker Chromatis Networks, in a stock deal that could value the privately held company at around $5.5 billion, according to several reports published over the weekend.If concluded, Lucent is expected to announce the deal ...
IBM, tech giants plan B2B exchange.(e2open.com)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Jun 05, 2000; ... IBM Tuesday is expected to announce a global Internet business-to-business exchange for the telecom and electronics industries that will use IBM technology and draw in several major partners. An IBM official in Hong Kong, who declined to be named, confirmed that such an online ...
Nortel revs up hybrid communications server.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... RICHARDSON, TEXAS - Nortel Networks at the end of this month plans to release an upgraded version of Enterprise Edge, its communications server designed to help small and midsize businesses integrate voice and data traffic into a single network, company officials say. Enterprise ...
Marathon boosts Win NT server performance.(Marathon Technologies Endurance 6200)(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... BOXBOROUGH, MASS. - Marathon Technologies is introducing a multiprocessor version of its software and hardware that promises higher data throughput for Windows NT Server users. Endurance 6200 software and hardware includes several new features, such as support for two processors ...
EARLY ADOPTERS SAVING WITH VOICE OVER DSL; VOICE OVER DSL IS THE FIRST OF MANY APPLICATIONS THAT WILL RIDE ON DSL LINES.(Technology Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... VOICE OVER DSL It's easy to see why James Knudson likes voice over DSL. His Covina, Calif., law firm buys voice-over-DSL service from mPower Communications that supports four phones and Internet access on a 768K bit/sec DSL connection for about $300 per month. That's ...
Gateway, AOL tap Transmeta for 'Net applications.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Upstart processor vendor Transmeta Tuesday said that Gateway 2000 will use its Crusoe chips and Mobile Linux operating system in forthcoming Internet appliances the hardware vendor is developing with AOL.Gateway and AOL will use the Crusoe processors and Mobile Linux in appliances ...
Juniper, Foundry size up router race; CEO Kriens says only Juniper and Cisco will survive; CEO Johnson says Foundry's in the fight.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... SANTA CLARA - Even though the market for Internet core routers will be worth $10 million in three to five years, only two players will split that pie, says Juniper Networks CEO Scott Kriens. Kriens, naturally, is very bullish on Juniper's prospects for being one of those two ...
Ask Dr. Intranet.(Technology Tutorial)(Column)
Jun 05, 2000; ... With all the new e-mail viruses going around (Melissa, ILOVEYOU, etc.), how do you protect yourself? First, I have the luxury of being able to log on to our mail server and preview my e-mail on the Unix server. Microsoft macro viruses won't do any harm there. This lets me weed ...
Will Gates look for sympathy.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
Jun 05, 2000; ... I'm in Orlando this week for Microsoft's TechEd conference - a geekfest right up there with Novell's BrainShare for the title of most acronyms per minute in a presentation. By the time you read this, the Monday morning opening keynote session will be finished. I'm writing this, though, ...
Mangled mass storage.(Humor)(Column)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Last week Gearhead delved into the convoluted world of the SCSI. What fun it was! With that whole realm of technology still fresh in our minds, let's discuss what to do when your disk drive seems to have joined the choir invisible, to be pushing up the daisies or to be an ex-disk drive. ...
BindView tackles Active Directory migrations; Offering brings security, configuration reporting to Windows 2000 directory.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... HOUSTON - Now that its acquisition of former rival Entevo is completed, BindView is again focusing its efforts on tools to help IT executives cut through the clutter of migrating to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Next week, the company will unveil two products for its line ...
NaviSite, ArrowPoint team for apps services.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Marry technologies from switch maker ArrowPoint with ASP NaviSite and what do you get? A way to give enterprise users the goods to manage their e-commerce and business-to-business applications the same way they manage Web site content. The joint development deal the two firms ...
Briefs.(News Briefs)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Nortel Networks has decided to brand ATM-based integrated access devices from Sonoma Systems under the trade name Universal Edge 600. Along with the OEM agreement, Nortel may take an equity position in Sonoma, based in Marina del Rey, Calif. The Nortel Universal Edge series will ...
Java package aims to simplify Web interactions; Version 2.0 of Savvion Business Manager lets companies consolidate multiple business processes into one.(Product Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... SANTA CLARA - The latest edition of a Java-based software package is designed to take much of the complexity out of doing business over the Web. Savvion Business Manager 2.0, from Savvion, can be used to set up, run and manage business interactions such as checking the status of ...
Microsoft gets good news in Sun suit.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Microsoft may be against the ropes in its antitrust battle with the U.S. government, but it can take some solace in a preliminary ruling that could save it $35 million in its legal war with Sun over Java. A U.S. District Court judge last week tentatively dismissed Sun's claim ...
Nextlink spreads its wings overseas; CLEC maps European expansion plans to be fueled by $306 million commitment.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... MCLEAN, VA. - Nextlink is expanding its network overseas with a $306 million investment in dark fiber throughout Europe. The company is buying local, intercity and transatlantic fiber-optic networks from Level 3 Communications. Nextlink plans on using the capacity to expand the ...
English-only Web sites becoming a tough sell overseas.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... If you're an online business that wants to woo Latin American customers, the courtship increasingly may have to be done en Espanol. The days when English-only Web sites could suffice internationally appear to be nearing an end, according to analysts and other industry observers. ...
Learning from the Love bug; This spring's crop of viruses got plenty of attention, but are we any more ready for the next outbreak?(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Just when you think you can take a breather from virus paranoia, something else gets the adrenaline flowing. Late Friday we heard reports of the Killer Resume virus, a new variant of the infamous Melissa virus that started the era of widespread infections back in March of 1999. ...
Senate eyes Guard for info security.(Government Activity)
Jun 05, 2000; ... The Senate this month urged the Pentagon to study how might use the Army National Guard to make up for the shortage of computer programmers and information security specialists. "The reserve component, especially the National Guard, is well-positioned" to carry out the mission ...
Pennsylvania makes spreading computer viruses criminal.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... People who intentionally spread a computer virus face a seven-year prison sentence and a $15,000 fine in Pennsylvania after Governor Tom Ridge signed a new bill into law May 26. The bill also requires that restitution be paid for any damages caused. The bill, which passed the ...
Hyperchip hypes its hardwareq.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Plenty of startups are trying to build a terabit router, one that will outgun Cisco Systems, Inc. http://www.cisco.com and Juniper Networks, Inc. http://www.juniper.net, solve the capacity crunch in Internet backbones and make them billions of bucks in the process (see Terabit Turmoil ) ....
Macromedia Web software with WebSphere Application Server.(IBM announced a deal with Macromedia)(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Attempting to broaden WebSphere as an application development environment, IBM announced on Tuesday a deal with Macromedia that allows Big Blue to integrate Macromedia's Web development software into WebSphere. Under the terms of the deal, IBM has licensed Macromedia's ...
Microsoft to file remedy response Wednesday.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Lawyers for Microsoft Wednesday plan to file their response to the Department of Justice's final proposal for remedies in the government's antitrust case against the software maker.Once it is filed, Microsoft will post the response on its Web site at ...
IBM laying off around 1,000 U.S. services staff.(Company Financial Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... IBM is laying off just under 1,000 of its U.S. services staff, equivalent to 0.3% of its total workforce, in part due to the completion of projects related to the Y2K problem, a company spokesman confirmed. "It's a very small percentage of our overall workforce," says IBM spokesman ...
Intel cuts prices, prepares to launch new chips.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... As Intel prepares to release a panoply of new products the U.S. chip vendor over the weekend took the ax to its microprocessor prices. In the desktop market, Intel cut the price of its high-end Pentium III processor by as much as 31%, and its Celeron processor by up to 15%. Prices on ...
Microsoft gets tentative $35 million break in Sun.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Microsoft may be against the ropes in its antitrust battle with the U.S. government, but it can take some solace in a preliminary ruling that could save it $35 million in its legal war over Sun's Java. A U.S. District Court Judge last week tentatively dismissed Sun's claim that ...
Invesys to buy Baan for $709 million in cash.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Confirming Tuesday's rumors, U.K. automation and controls group Invensys PLC has offered to buy Baan for approximately $708.7 million, the companies announced Wednesday.Baan's trade unions, Works Councils and SER Merger Committee, have all been informed of the offer and Baan's ...
NetSpeak makes IP voice more like traditional voice.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... NetSpeak next week at SuperComm will unveil software that lets service providers offer more phone system features over public IP networks. The new features include four-digit dialing between different companies as well as voice quality-of-service (QoS) levels that let service ...
IBM, SAS bolster B2B exchanges.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... IBM and SAS Institute have separately moved to bolster support for Internet exchanges that promise to reduce costs and speed product delivery by streamlining the buying and selling of products and services. IBM confirmed that it is working on a global Internet ...
CABLETRON SPINOFF AIMS FOR NEXT-GENERATION CARRIERS.(Product Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... SANTA CLARA - Riverstone is the MAN. That's one thought Riverstone CEO Romulus Pereira would like metropolitan-area network service providers to have when choosing their data communications platform. Pereira says Riverstone is using Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit ...
Lucent to acquire Chromatix for $4.5 billion in stock.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... The world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, Lucent, will acquire optical networking equipment maker Chromatis Networks in a stock deal worth $4.5 billion, Lucent announced Wednesday. Lucent will buy the privately held Chromatis for 78 million shares of Lucent common stock ...
Eulogy for the 3.5 floppy.(Technology Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today on this most solemn of occasions to bid farewell to our longtime friend, the 3.5" floppy disk (known as 3.5 to his friends). After years of happiness, our plastic-cased friend has succumbed to the ever-changing and ever-fickle whims of the ...
Nortel bolsters portable IP routing package.(Product Announcement)
Jun 05, 2000; ... SANTA CLARA - Nortel Networks last week announced a new version of its portable routing code that lets users add network service applications to the software framework. Nortel's Open IP Environment 2.0 is intended to enhance interoperability among a range of hardware and ...
Microsoft takes final swing at breakup proposal.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Microsoft Wednesday afternoon issued its final response to the U.S. government's proposal to split the software titan in two, paving the way for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to issue a final ruling in the case as soon as Thursday this week. In its court ...
Analysts: Merger is mixed blessing for Baan users.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Last week's news that ailing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Baan will finally be acquired should come as a relief to users of the company's applications. Being acquired by U.K. automationand controls firm Invensys for more than $700 million will return ...
News briefs.(News Briefs)
Jun 05, 2000 ... Lucent grabs optical start-up Lucent last week ponied up $4.5 billion worth of its shares to purchase Chromatis Networks, a start-up provider of metropolitan-area optical networking switches. Lucent already has optical switching systems for carrier trunking between local and ...
SAN vendors joust over future of Fibre Channel.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000; ... SAN JOSE - "Fibre Channel is dead." That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate about storage-area networks over Gigabit Ethernet held at the SAN 2000 conference here last week. Network infrastructure and storage vendors 3Com, Hewlett-Packard, ...
Crazy and customers: More chaos.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jun 05, 2000 ... Customer service is supposed to be your defense against the big, bad world, the thing that stops your company from becoming completely psychotic when flooded with questions that must be answered. You provide warm bodies and/ or an Interactive Voice Response System in an attempt ...
Microsoft not budging on antitrust case.(Government Activity)
Jun 05, 2000; ... Microsoft last Wednesday issued what the company thought would be its final response to the U.S. government's proposal to split the software titan into two separate companies, paving the way for District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to issue a final ruling in the case at any time. ...
New tools tame Napster traffic; Traffic shapers offer relief from new 'Net apps.(Product Information)
Jun 05, 2000; ... New traffic-shaping devices promise to prevent Napster and similar bandwidth hogs from overwhelming campus and corporate networks, an advancement early adopters say will loosen bans on these increasingly popular Internet applications. Among the colleges recently lifting ...