The company's kick-butt financials only reinforced the fact that when customers want to buy secure servers for their enterprise, Sun is first among equals. Apple got a big PR boost from Macworld. Oddly enough, it remains the most closed-box company ever. Get used to the story line because more Internet mergers are on the way. That's as it should be, I suppose.
Human nature is human nature and the honor system usually fails to work out as advertised.
That's good news but the price needs to drop even further before Palm has a shot at becoming a mass-market hot seller. A Jupiter Communications study about the impact Napster has had on music sales says people who use services like Napster are 45 percent more likely to buy music. Contrast that with a couple of studies commissioned by the music industry, which suggest Napster is dampening demand for music purchases. I don't know how to put this delicately, but one side is lying through its teeth. Intel is behind in its plan to bring out its 64-bit chip but the delay will give operating systems developers a chance to catch up to their own internal deadlines.