February
2000
News
- MS
scraps OS
- B2B
leads the way
- Lotus
abandons cc:Mail
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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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