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February 2000 News

  • MS scraps OS
  • B2B leads the way
  • Lotus abandons cc:Mail

MS scraps O/S plan

MS scraps its O/S plan for a consumer-oriented system in favour of a combined consumer and business product. Development of "Neptune", a consumer version of Windows based on the NT kernel, has been stopped. MS is now readying "Whistler". It will include Neptune features and also supplants "Odyssey" which had been scheduled to be the first major upgrade to Win2000.

B2B leads the growth of E-Commerce 

E-Commerce growth is led by business to business linkages. The difference between B2B and "normal" e-business is that B2B provides a central place where businesses can trade raw material goods rather than finished goods to the end consumer. This is a far less complicated business relationship.

Lotus abandons its cc:Mail product 

Lotus plan to abandon cc:Mail and force users to move to Lotus Notes. Experts are surprised at this especially as the profile of SmartSuite is declining.! 

Shorties

  • EMC buy Terascape Software for improved Oracle database support.
  • SUN position Solaris 8 to battle MS Win2000.
  • Motorola have developed battery with 10x life of existing batteries. Power  for a phone a month and laptop for 20 hours.
  • Security experts warn that complexity increases risks - NT4 has 16M loc whilst Win2000 has 60M loc. Anybody scared?
  • BBC delay SAP roll-out until 2001. They started in 1994.
  • WAP solutions may be delayed by lack of hardware and high development costs. That is without the problems of conflicting technologies.
  • Bill Gates is working with BT & AT&T to get into the wireless business. Will the wireless phone be the Next PC (sic)?
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