Michael Vizard

As a technology, Web services is little understood because it is primarily an application development phenomenon. But like most fundamental changes to a key set of enabling technologies, the impact Web services will have will be profound.

Although, during the course of the year, systems integration and consulting has proved recession-proof, this is not likely to be the case a year from now.

General Electric Co.'s Global Exchange Services business unit announced Monday a broad-ranging extension of its partnership with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, while simultaneously moving to open its proprietary service for business-to-business e-commerce applications to any third-party digital exchange.

DSL has emerged as the primary broadband technology that people will use to drive the next wave of Internet applications. As the chairman of Dallas-based Efficient Networks Inc., Mark Floyd is helping to drive the adoption of DSL through a broad range of partnerships and alliances. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard, Floyd makes the economic case for DSL and outlines the impact it will have on the enterprise as the technology continues to evolve.

If you're an IT executive today, things pretty much work this way: so...

Over 85 per cent of the companies trying to restructure their business around e-commerce are going to...