* Return of the ‘network computer’ * Give me a number * E-rate explosion * Looking for innovation
Return of the ‘network computer’
It’s been nearly a decade since Larry Ellison started talking about “network computers,” slimmed-down PCs that would get their applications over a net. Sadly, that dream died, but as Dave Kearns says in this week’s Wired Windows, Larry may simply have been a little ahead of his time.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101804kearns.html?vo
Give me a number
In true “Reality Check” style, Tom Nolle this week crunches the numbers surrounding the so-called small-business market. Since vendors are making so much noise about attracting small companies, how big of a market is there for network equipment, really? And what will vendors’ moves in that direction mean for the industry as a whole? Tom breaks it down.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101804nolle.html?vo
E-rate explosion
“This is nuts,” says Johna Till Johnson in this week’s Eye on the Carriers. She’s talking about the e-rate program, which was established in the 1990s to help schools get computers. Finally, the federal government is acknowledging that there were problems with the original structure of the program. But it turns out that the solution it came up with is even worse.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101804johnson.html?vo
Looking for innovation
Steve Taylor wonders aloud whether innovation in our industry has gone the way of the dodo, since there seems to be less activity in certain areas – fewer new protocols, new products and new forums. But perhaps the nature of innovation has simply changed.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101804taylor.html?vo
