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THE LOW TECH OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES 15 March 2000 by Jeff Gainer

Like most consultants, I spend an uncommon amount of time on airplanes. I'll admit to sometimes enjoying the quiet time away from e-mail and telephones to work or read.

There are several difficulties involved with building the next generation of systems that integrate the functions in current Web applications (traditional front office, order entry) with the back office (order fulfillment). The first difficulty is unambiguously defining the user requirements; the second is managing the organizational changes necessary to deploy the technical solution.

BEA'S E-COMMERCE COMPONENTS 8 March 2000 by Paul Harmon

BEA held its annual Users Conference this past month. Everyone was in a good mood. BEA's stock has gone from $65 to over $130 in the past two months and it's still listed as a "strong buy" by most analysts.