Dell
VNUnet, 4/14/03: We're all on the road to Dell
Guy Matthews
Michael Dell continued his quest for global domination by stating the obvious when he told a press conference that corporate chief information officers were looking for standardised technologies to drive down the costs of their IT infrastructure.
By "standardised", he meant Intel-based hardware, and he went on to say that Linux was the world's fastest growing operating system. Notable for its absence was any reference to Microsoft, an oversight easily explained by the fact that Dell was sharing a platform with Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison - no friend of Microsoft.
The technology and investment analysts listen to Mr Dell because, amid all the bloodletting, he continues to hit the numbers. But is he right about corporates moving to standardised technology? To hit his $60bn revenue target he will have to be.
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Security
C|net, 4/14/03: New tools aim to secure corporate IT
By Sandeep Junnarkar
A bevy of technology companies--both big and small--on Monday unveiled a slew of security products aimed at protecting corporate IT infrastructure.
The announcements were made in conjunction with the RSA Conference 2003, which started Sunday runs through Thursday in San Francisco.
Well-known companies at the conference like Hewlett-Packard and VeriSign and lesser-known ones such as Netegrity and Renesas Technology America are showcasing technologies to secure corporate networks, mobile devices, storage systems and Web services.
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Internet News, 4/14/03: Microsoft Focuses on Antispam for Exchange 2003
By Thor Olavsrud
With spam on track to become one of the biggest drains on companies' network resources, Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) Monday used the RSA Conference in San Francisco as a platform to introduce a new antispam tool for Exchange Server 2003.
The tool opens up Exchange Server to allow partners to integrate their own antispam modules with the server, and Microsoft said that integration will drive better content filtering with fewer false positives. In addition, Microsoft unveiled an updated version of its virus-scanning application protocol interface (VSAPI 2.5), which also allows partners to integrate their complementary offerings with the product.
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The Road to Innovation
The New York Times, 4/14/03: An Inventor's Memoir as Road Map
By TERESA RIORDAN
THREE years ago, Randice-Lisa Altschul was a celebrated entrepreneur and media darling. Her most recent invention — a disposable cellphone — caught the attention of the BBC, CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Parade, Glamour, Business Week and The Financial Times of London, all of which interviewed her. She was invited, twice, to lecture at Harvard Business School.
Today, Ms. Altschul's company, Dieceland Technologies, is $2.3 million in the red and it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. And she is being sued by creditors for control of her patents.
"Other people might go get drunk and cry in their beer," Ms. Altschul said. "But that's not my style."
Her style is, rather, to come out swinging. Last month, Ms. Altschul self-published a memoir, "Financiers, Lawyers, and Other Assorted Snakes: An Entrepreneur's Story," which lambastes what she says are the feckless lawyers and fiendish financiers who contributed to her financial demise.
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