John Dix

IT spending won't ratchet up in the second half and companies are more cost-conscious than ever, but buyers are calling the shots and can get important concessions from suppliers.

Attending a briefing with Greg Papadopoulos, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s CTO, is like stepping into an MIT classroom. He loves to talk about where we've been, where we're going and why.

The Storage Networking World conference in Orlando last week was bustling with scores of vendors and buyers talking about everything from storage security to storage resource management.

If there was one sentiment that summed up the seventh annual ATM Migration Challenge conference in Washington, D.C. last week it was this: Future public networks will have MPLS at the core, not ATM, and it is just a question of when and how each individual carrier will get there. For some, it will be quite some time.

There is no silver bullet for your storage needs, says one columnist, and you

It's hard enough to figure out how to get your laptop to communicate with your PDA and cell phone, but just try to get your PDA to talk to mine.

The deal is eerily reminiscent of Compaq's 1998 US$9.6 billion acquisition of Digital.

3Com Corp. President and CEO Bruce Claflin stopped by the office a few weeks ago to give us a company update and to emphasize that 3Com is still in the enterprise market.