Edupage newsletter for 23rd March 1999 Edupage newsletter for 23rd March 1999 For more information about Edupage and the Educom consortium, click here. A main motivation for the deal is the desire to beat the phone companies in offering high-speed Internet access. If customers go with the phone companies, it will be hard, if not impossible, to lure them back to cable. So cable companies want to get big so they have as much cash flow as they need to build their Internet business.
Size is everything.
Although Microsoft is apparently planning to offer the Justice Department and 19 states terms for settling the antitrust suit against that company, most lawyers think the prospect for settlement is unlikely because the two sides are still far apart on the issues. They can't just come in with minor contractual changes. That won't fly. The rate at which information systems are being relied on outstrips the rate at which they are being protected. The time needed to develop and deploy effective defenses in cyberspace is much longer than the time required to develop and mount an attack.