Counting on the Web: How Andromedia Helps Web Business Keep Track of Business
Businesses advertising on the Web need to know not just the number of hits a site receives, but demographic information about the people behind those hits: who they are, where they live, what kinds of products they're interested in, when and where they are most likely to access the Web. And how to keep them at a site long enough to see and interact with their advertisements.

Ascend Deploys Java for Easier Configuration of Network Access Hardware
Ascend Communications of Alameda, Calif. knows that first impressions count. Too many new users of advanced Internet communications hardware recall their first attempts to configure network access devices as ordeals that left them thinking that these products are just plain difficult to use.

Gambling on the Internet
In the past several years, gambling has become a more popular form of entertainment in America than going to the movies or to sporting events. And now gambling has found its way onto your personal computer.

Drilling for Oil on the Internet
Petris Technology plans to carry over one million items in an on-line store that caters to energy industry executives looking to strike it rich in the next big boom. But if Petris shoppers don't hit data paydirt, the on-line store could quickly go bust.

Interoperable ORBs -- Providing a Communications Framework for Internet Applications
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a software project will take at least twice as long to complete as anyone expected. In an attempt to prove this corollary to Murphy's law, the Standish Group, a computer industry market research firm in Cape Cod, Mass., conducted the Chaos research project.