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E-business insights

Commentary and analysis of trends in e-business, computing and the world at large

This is an index of selected columns and articles originally published in MicroScope, the business weekly for the UK computer trade. Author Phil Wainewright contributed to MicroScope every month continuously for 15 years, from November 1992 to October 2007.

2002
Telecoms tamed — March 5th, 2002
People used to say the telecoms industry did things so much better than computing - but major telecoms players are now a spent force

Worldwide weblogs — April 30th, 2002
The real-time publishing power of the weblog format will finally unlock the full potential of the Web for all its users

Service-ization — January 8th, 2002
It's time to get away from a packaged product mentality and rediscover traditional service values

2001
Business solutions — March 27th, 2001
Solving existing business logjams without adding new headaches is the key to technology sales success

2000
A blazing venture — March 27th, 2000
Surely this will be the dot-com business plan to end all dot-coms?

1998
Wingene on trial — November 10th, 1998
A biotech fable from the future, inspired by the US Department of Justice proceedings against Microsoft

Trial and error — May 26th, 1998
One day, all of computing will be boiled down to just a handful of simple, reusable components

1997
Bye-bye, telcos — October 21st, 1997
Internet technology is redrawing the telecoms landscape. Can our leading telecoms companies stay in control of their destiny?

1996
Disintermediated — August 9th, 1996
What the management guru would tell you if only you could understand what he meant

It won't be Java — November 20th, 1996
Many people believe that Java will overthrow the status quo in computing. But revolutions never work out the way their instigators initially expect.

The subversive intranet — September 20th, 1996
Letting intranets into the corporate citadel will end for ever the hegemony of the IS department

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