Buzz columnist roundtable, 09/27/99

Network World Fusion, 09/27/99

Network World columnists are renowned for separating hype from the reality. So we corralled four of them to give us their no-holds-barred opinions on the technologies in this year's Buzz Issue.

You can read an edited transcript of their discussion, or listen to them in their own words in RealAudio (Requires the free RealPlayer G2).

The participants are Scott Bradner ('Net Insider), Dave Kearns (Wired Windows), James Kobielus (Above the Cloud) and Thomas Nolle (Reality Check). The panel was moderated by Paul Desmond, former Network World features editor and current vice president of King Content.

Columnists are listed in the order that they first speak.

XML
Bradner, Nolle and Kobielus. 9 minutes.

Policy-based networking
Kobielus, Nolle and Kearns. 8 minutes.

Directories
Kearns, Bradner, Nolle. 6 minutes.

Integrated access services
Nolle, Kobielus and Bradner on such carrier services as Sprint's ION. 8 minutes.

Convergence
Bradner, Kobielus, and Nolle. 6.5 minutes.

ASPs
Bradner, Nolle and Kobielus. 7.5 minutes.

Corporate portals
Nolle, Kearns and Kobielus. 6 minutes.

PDAs
Nolle, Kearns and Kobielus. 5 minutes.

E-mail overload
Nolle, Kearns and Kobielus. 3.5 minutes.

Windows 2000
Nolle, Kearns and Kobielus. 4 minutes.

PKI and security
Nolle, Kearns and Kobielus. 8.5 minutes.