Category Archives: Business 2.0

Pity the vendors of online collaboration software. Companies such as eRoom, Intraspect, WebEx (WEBX), and even Microsoft (MSFT) (with its SharePoint products) have been trying for years to overcome the barriers of physical distance and eliminate business travel, with software … Continue reading →

Want to win your next negotiation? Role-playing, that much-maligned management technique, could actually do the trick. From the July, 2002 issue of Business 2.0, page 94 Try this experiment: Mention the term “role-playing” to your colleagues and note whether they … Continue reading →

Loudcloud announced this week that it would exit the Web outsourcing business. Does that mean you should think about running your website in-house? Not necessarily. As recently as a year ago, managed service providers (MSPs) seemed to be a pretty … Continue reading →

Truant officers in Boston are testing a new system that shows how mobile applications are supposed to work. Elliot Feldman, director of alternative education for Boston Public Schools, has no illusions about his job. Among other duties, he oversees the … Continue reading →

Web merchants are flooded with so much information on consumer traffic that they can’t make sense of it all. A new software system might help. When you enter a department store, there’s a good chance that your every move is … Continue reading →

The ISP market is about as orderly as a medieval bazaar. Fortunately, new route-control products may give corporate buyers an edge. You might think that the market for Internet bandwidth would be a paragon of capitalist rationality. After all, isn’t … Continue reading →

How do you run an IT department on a tight budget? Two words: Linux and eBay. Five years ago, if you had proposed running some of your company’s most critical applications on an operating system originally developed by a longhaired … Continue reading →

The economy may have slowed down, but that doesn’t mean the pace of technological change has abated. If anything, choices about technology are getting harder to make — you have a smaller budget to work with and more options for … Continue reading →

I waded barefoot into the middle of a religious war with my recent article on Web services and Java (see “Is Java Obsolete?“). I haven’t seen such an outpouring of techie shock and rage since the Amiga was canceled. “Your … Continue reading →

Sun’s programming language is great for linking corporate applications to the Internet. Trouble is, Web services promise to do the same thing. from Business 2.0, April 2002 issue At Ford Financial, the financial services arm of Ford Motor, Java is … Continue reading →