10 Years Ago In The IT Channel: Linux 2.4, Microsoft, Sapient

IT Channel: November 2000

Ten years ago, the holiday shopping season was gearing up -- and the results later were considered a harbinger of bad economic news to come. It was etoys' last holiday season (before its assets were taken over by KB Toys) and many of the once-brilliant Web stars started to flame out.

Here's a look at the IT channel in November 2000.

Microsoft Attorneys: What Holiday Weekend?

The long Thanksgiving weekend proved to be an extra long one for Microsoft's lawyers, as they geared up to deliver a critical brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia the Monday after national turkey day.

Transmeta Says Flawed Chips Likely Only Used By NEC

U.S. chip maker Transmeta said on Nov. 30 that flawed versions of its revolutionary Crusoe chips could have been used by computer makers other than Japan's NEC Corp., but added that it was unlikely.

Torvalds: Linux 2.4 Expected To Go Gold In December

The Linux movement was expected to reach another milestone when Linus Torvalds officially sanctioned the long-awaited Linux 2.4 kernel for commercial release.

HP seeks Better Deal On PricewaterhouseCoopers Unit

HP lowered its bid for the consulting arm of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers due to a decline in valuations since talks between the companies had begun.

Post-Thanksgiving Site Performance

Site-performance company Keynote during Thanksgiving week started measuring downtime and download speeds at a multitude of popular e-commerce sites. Given that the day after Thanksgiving is practically National Christmas-Shopping day, Keynote reasoned that online commerce would see as much or more traffic than the local mall. But its results were mixed.

marchFIRST Working To Realign, Restructure

marchFIRST lowered financial estimates for the fourth quarter and unveiled plans to realign its business strategy and restructure its operations in the hopes of achieving profitability. The faltering Web services firm had projected revenue of $235 million to $250 million and a loss per share of 25 to 30 cents for the fourth quarter.

Security Firms Win Funding

The seemingly bottomless pit of investment money kept endowing vendors. Combined, Counterpane and Recourse Technologies received more than $40 million.

Quintus Shares Stop Trading Following Financial Missteps

Trading on CRM developer Quintus was halted after the company failed to restate its second-quarter earnings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sapient's Brett Wickens On Creativity

For Brett Wickens, then vice president of creative at Sapient, Web design was a complete, holistic experience. To him, creativity was the ultimate combination of graphic design, content strategy, information architecture and site development.

COMDEX: Enterprise ASPs Need To Bring More to the Table

Aubrey Chernick, chairman and CEO of Candle, gave a keynote address at Comdex Fall 2000 in Las Vegas in which she said integration would play a key role as ASPs targeted enterprise accounts with increasingly complex service offerings.

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