She also suggested that Verizon timed the filing of the court action to create as much havoc for Vonage as possible. Vonage has had to contend with a disappointing IPO and shareholder lawsuits in recent weeks.

Schultz noted that, according to Verizon's own paperwork, the factual basis of the complaint was based in large part on pre-IPO filings Vonage made with the SEC.

"We weren't able to confirm until recently that our patents were being infringed by Vonage," Bob Varettoni, executive director of communications for Verizon, told internetnews.com.

Mike Snyder, CEO of Vonage, acknowledged to a group of reporters here in New York that the quality of his company's Wi-Fi phone, introduced a little under a year ago, still leaves something to be desired.

Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, a provider of ERP (define )solutions to small and medium sized business (SMB), dropped by our office for coffee the day after he gave a keynote address at the C3 Expo here in New York last week.

Having already created one enterprise solution at a small enough scale for smaller companies to swallow, Nelson is interested in addressing another: health care costs, which he said are the most difficult challenge that SMBs face.

"The cost of health insurance for my company has gone up 20 percent every year for the last five years," he told internetnews.com. "I don't have any other expense that has gone up that much every year."

Indeed, Jackie Chan, an analyst with AMI-Partners, a New York-based consultancy that focuses on SMBs, explained that the cost of providing these benefits is a major stumbling block.

She told internetnews.com that many SMBs don't offer health benefits because of the cost, and that "can become a major impediment to the growth of this business segment."

Glenn Brunette, distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems criticized the tendency among corporate executives to blame regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) for creating a morass of rules.

He noted that Section 404 of SOX, which mandates strict controls and procedures for safeguarding financial information, doesn't require any specific actions. Companies need to decide which solution best fits their needs.

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