Numerous social networking for the enterprise vendors have sprung up in the wake of Friendster's success, but the technology is more rightfully a feature than a standalone application. CRM ...

Salesforce.com, looking to disrupt CRM again, claims that the seemingly de rigueur industry editions are relics of the past. But now that the company wants to win over the ...

Market conditions have made optical vendors consider the role of OEM partnerships in a new light. As they change in nature and grow in importance, how OEMs are positioned becomes ...

The market for regulatory compliance solutions is getting hotter. Data quality vendors and others interested in deepening their penetration of the market should be making plans now, including partnering ...

Nortel has a new PDSN "unveiled" in Sprint's EV-DO vendor announcement, but details have been scant. A new OEM partnership might explain this announcement strategy, while providing details to ...

PWE3 was developed by router vendors, but could also be used to try and evolve SONET into a new data aware role suitable for migration to (and participation in) the ...

Oracle is finally going to acquire PeopleSoft. The acquisition will certainly have a profound impact on the middleware, data warehousing, and portal markets; vendors and users should be prepared. ...

After a seemingly endless fight, Oracle will acquire PeopleSoft. Oracle now claims that it will attempt to integrate the mass of applications it will soon own into a single ...

Channel sales are increasingly critical to the revenue goals of IT equipment manufacturers. These manufacturers must find ways to be their resellers' top priority without returning to the wholesale ...

The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism has introduced the Terrorist Knowledge Base. Designed to be a one-stop shop for information on terrorism, the database could prove to ...

SBC votes strongly for DSLAMs, but Verizon chooses B-PON. Given the co-developed RFP they shared, why the difference? And more importantly, are there lessons learned or less obvious potential implications ...

By all accounts, momentum is growing behind IMS. To take it mass market - beyond early adopter operators and those with fixed-line synergies - mobile vendors will need to ...

ROADM vendors had a lot of overlap in positioning while justifying the need for their emerging class of products. Now they need to put more emphasis on promoting their own ...

As 2G networks were built out, in-building coverage was often seen as a novelty. Now, with 3G becoming a necessity and convergence looming, can in-building coverage models become an ...

Vendors face competitive pressures to meet very aggressive service provider price expectations, but changes in the evolving market place make positioning for wins increasingly possible despite not being the low ...

With an influx of new members, the WiMAX Forum is riding high. However, new members don't ensure the success of any technology and press releases can't quantify commitment. Of course, ...

TeliaSonera plans a 45,000 home rollout of FTTH, but traction elsewhere in EMEA and North America is less encouraging for PON than for DSL. PON vendors need to justify the ...

After a long pause, some vendors are talking 40G again, public demonstrations are underway, and it was a popular topic at ECOC 2004. Is 40G a real opportunity now, or ...

Sending voice in packets is more than just a means of cheap transport. VoIP makes new enterprise applications possible and allows new ways to use existing applications. Service ...

Blinded by their historical mindset, service providers look at VoIP as a network efficiency play and a way to stave off competition. However, service providers can win new service ...