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To: rbotik who wrote (38434)11/19/2000 3:48:41 AM
From: allen v.w.  Read Replies (1) of 40688
 
A post I read: P2P means peer to peer here:

There's been some discussion both here and on the netmarketmakers.com
lists about P2P and Napster like models for B2B. It occurred to me that
a key factor in all this is the availability and installation of always-
on internet connections. I guess pretty much everyone here is working in
offices that have a permanent internet connection. I'm sure we all
remember how this completely changes your use of the internet even if
there's only a shared 64K connection. But I bet that the vast majority
of us are still using dial up at home. One of the big challenges, that
several people have mentioned is getting sign up to a market in that a
large proportion of the 2nd, 3rd tier and SME players have limited or no
internet access.

Now the model for trade on the net so far has been based on the web
which is fundamentally a one to many, centralized system. It assumes
that although the central site is always on, the connections to it by
it's users are occasional and essentially asynchronous. This has
resulted in approaches that aggregate and consolidate trade in the
center. The many to many (fat butterfly) model of signing up both buyers
and sellers to one place on the web doesn't negate this. But the cracks
are already appearing as people question how many central hubs any one
organization needs to join, in order to meet all their potential
partners.

So following this argument to it's conclusion, I have some questions for
the group:-

- How long will it be before we have ubiquitous, always on access
including the majority of smaller players? 6 months, 2 years, 5 years?

- How will this open up new opportunities and models for B2B?

- I don't expect the web to be supplanted, but what many-to-many systems
will grow on top of it?
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