NetFlash: Web integration: Then & now

In its annual “Marketing to Life Scientists” study published in July 2003, market research firm BioInformatics notes that the Web is the No. 1 medium for new product information, eclipsing catalogs, print ads and trade shows. “Prior to 1997, the same survey didn’t even include the Web as an option,” says Brad Johnson, director of e-business for Sigma-Aldrich, a St. Louis chemical company that sells to life scientists and puts a lot of stock in the study.

Web integration: Then & now

In its annual “Marketing to Life Scientists” study published in July 2003, market research firm BioInformatics notes that the Web is the No. 1 medium for new product information, eclipsing catalogs, print ads and trade shows. “Prior to 1997, the same survey didn’t even include the Web as an option,” says Brad Johnson, director of e-business for Sigma-Aldrich, a St. Louis chemical company that sells to life scientists and puts a lot of stock in the study.

https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110webprogress.html

Microsoft says it isn’t breaking EU laws

Microsoft is on the defense again, or is it still. Wednesday the company defended its business practices during a three-day hearing in Brussels in front of European competition regulators, in a final attempt to persuade them that it isn’t breaking the European Union’s anti-trust laws.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1113microsays.html

OSDL to pay for Torvalds’ lawyers

Open Source Development Labs picks up the tab. OSDL Friday said that it intends to pay the legal fees for Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other lab employees who have been ensnared in a lawsuit between IBM and The SCO Group.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1114osdltopa.html

Analysts puzzled over SCO, IBM subpoenas

Industry analysts were left scratching their heads this week as they tried to understand the reasoning behind ten subpoenas sent out by IBM and The SCO Group recently as part of their ongoing legal dispute. The subpoenas were sent to a variety of individuals and companies including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, SCO investor BayStar Capital, and Novell.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1114analypuzzl.html

Women in IT face same challenges as elsewhere

Seems the business world is still a man’s world. Women working in the U.S. IT industry face the same challenges to career advancement as in any other field, according to a new study released Wednesday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1113womaninit.html

This week’s top 5 stories so far:

1. Cisco, Nortel to embrace SSL-based VPNs

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110ciscossl.html?net

2. Promising indicators suggest telecom recovery looming

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110recovery.html?net

3. Web application firewalls give you the chance to burn Port 80 hackers

https://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/1110appfw.html?net

4. WLAN protocol hits standards trail

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1110lwapp.html?net

5. Paper finds new wireless standard less secure

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1107paperfinds.html?net