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Judge thomas penfield jackson’s ruling that Microsoft cannot force OEMs to buy Internet Explorer as a condition of their Windows license raises more questions than it answers. But the questions, at first blush, seem either unanswerable or unimportant from a pure force-of-impact standpoint.

While the media can’t have enough of this story, the ruling will hardly be felt by anybody except the main players, spinmeisters, and some programmers and marketers at Microsoft. Let’s walk through it:

COMPETITION. There are only two browsers that matter: Netscape’s and Microsoft’s. The judge’s decision won’t change that. What he seemed to be saying is that Microsoft cannot tie the potential success of a rising product to an established monopoly. But he also wrote, “Microsoft …

The spirit of cooperation has not led incumbent service providers to roll out the red carpet to help rivals access their local networks.

In most cases, the cooperation provided by incumbents has fallen far short of the commitment required by potential competitors to provision alternative voice or data services on existing networks.

In the most recent indictment of the Regional Bell Operating Companies’ uncooperative attitude, the U.S. Department of Justice last week warned the Federal Communications Commission not to approve an application by BellSouth Corp. to provide long-distance service in Louisiana.

The DOJ’s recommendation was based on three factors: BellSouth’s refusal to unbundle its network elements for potential rivals, its pricing of network elements and its substandard operational support systems.…

Daniel Moffatt, vice president and CIO of Carondelet Health Systems, a national network of Catholic hospitals, is making a leap of faith. So great is his belief in Internet security technology, Moffatt has set up a VPN on the public Net to transfer the most personal and confidential data: patients’ medical information.

While other hospitals are using the Net to host public Web sites, two Carondelet members, St. Joseph’s Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, in Kansas City, Mo., have constructed a secure Internet link to transport patient records, lab reports and electronic signatures to their physicians’ private offices or homes.

ISPs (Internet service providers) are touting scalable virtual private networks as an inexpensive alternative to dedicated data lines. But …

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Almost two years after passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, corporate IT managers remain sorely disappointed with the pace of local telephone competition and its twin promises of greater choice and lower prices.

Far worse, true competition is likely years away unless the telecommunications industry’s largest players stop dragging their feet.

Potential rivals to the incumbent RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) and GTE Corp. currently have two options for providing alternative local services: reselling the local lines owned and controlled by the incumbents, or constructing their own bypass networks.

In either case, the trouble and expense of building alternative local networks, combined with the difficulties with coordinating resale of the incumbents’ local facilities, have limited local phone competition primarily …

THE OLD SONY TELEVISION IN MY HOME OFFICE WAS considered state of the art when I bought it 20 years ago, and it still displays a beautiful picture. It’s far from obsolete. The only problem is that it doesn’t have enough audio-visual inputs for all the cable, satellite, videocamera, VCR, and computer multimedia jacks I want to stick in it.

The new TV–the salesman calls it a “video receiver and monitor” has lots of A/V jacks and sports a bigger screen than the old set’s 19-inch one, and it costs less. Not a bad trade-up.

Meanwhile, I’ll hand down the old Sony to the kids, who don’t care about such things as S-video inputs, dual-tuner PIPs, and graphical onscreen operating …

Time may be on Mick Jagger’s side (at least according to the song), but it’s probably not on yours. Your business makes so many demands that time has become an adversary. Even when you dip into your evenings and weekends, it seems impossible to get everything done–not to mention find time to spend with your family.

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When you think about it, …

IT organizations are using internal certification programs to train and reward staff by offering well-defined career tracks and clear-cut promotion guidelines

When Dana Nutter decided recently to flex his professional muscles by changing jobs, one of his main goals was to chart a clear career path. Like most IT professionals, he wanted to vault to the next level in his career and believed a new job at a new company was the best way.

Last September he landed at Computer Applications Corp. and found not only better job opportunities but also something he had never heard of during his 17-year career–an internal certification program.

Computer Applications, a network management services provider in Huntington Beach, Calif., is one of a number …