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To: Pruguy who wrote (21819)	6/14/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 41369

<<correct me if I am wrong but IBM is the e-commerce leader....>> That is Lou Gerstner's claim. To me the notion of a e-commerce company is someone like Amazon, which has the infrastructure like warehouse, the mechanism for credit card billings, arrangement with shippers, a team of web developers to develop web pages to mimic browsing in a store etc. Another model is that of eBay, a sort of of a mall owner/flea market owner. These are true e-commmerce companies. IBM sells the hardware for e-commerce such as powerful servers, the databases etc. etc. I have not seen them involved in e-commerce on the same lines as AMZN, CDNW, eBay and even AOL for that matter. And Microsoft, I am not sure if they can be considered a e-commerce or Internet company. For Microsoft to claim that is like Al Gore claiming that he invented the Internet or Dan Quayle having invented the Spell Checker. Hope AOL hits 80 tomorrow so that we can be done with the downward slide.