Technology and Small Business
The New York Times, 5/6/03: When Goliath Comes Knocking on David's Door
By BARNABY J. FEDER
When the world's biggest companies do business with the millions of minnows on the commercial landscape, the outcome can be tough for the little guys.
Small companies routinely sustain losses struggling to get — and keep — the attention of giants that they hope to supply with products or services. But those who operate small businesses say that buying from a behemoth can also lead to pain.
"For them, it's one of a million things," said Barry Weinbaum, president and chief executive of NanoOpto, a start-up vendor of optical components for communications gear, based in Somerset, N.J. "For us, it's life or death."
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Desktop Computing
Internet Week, 5/5/03: Why You Need To Replace Those Windows 98 And NT Machines
By Peter S. Kastner, Aberdeen Group
More than 50 million aging PCs sit on desks in corporate cubes and offices around the world.
They were built and sold before the millennium; in fact, many were bought circa 1998 because of anticipated Y2K problems with even older Microsoft DOS and Windows 3.1 PCs. Small businesses often purchased consumer machines with Windows 98, and larger enterprises installed Windows NT desktops as the "fat clients" of Y2K-generation application enhancements.
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Security
Infoworld, 5/6/03: Stupidity trumps security
It doesn't matter how good your policies are if you don't enforce them
By Wayne Rash
The attorney I was chatting with over coffee smiled and then launched into what could only be called a horror story -- at least if you were her client. "My client's soon-to-be-ex-wife apparently wanted to get back at him," explained the attorney, one of the top divorce lawyers on the east coast. "So she got into his office somehow and then used his assistant's computer to send an e-mail message to everyone in the company telling of his affair with one of his coworkers."
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Microsoft
IDG, 5/5/03: WINHEC - HP, Microsoft unveil new PC design
Tom Krazit, IDG News ServiceBoston Bureau
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) are working together on a future desktop reference design that will bring several different communications technologies together in a package, HP said Tuesday. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will demonstrate the device during his keynote Tuesday at WinHEC in New Orleans.
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