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Gold/Mining/Energy : Microforum (MCF:TSE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: swot who wrote (2726)	6/23/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: Link Lady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3896

Did you read the whole article. here are some exerpts. "I don't envy the marketplace they're going after," said Howard Pearl, chief executive of Microforum Inc. of Toronto, which sells sophisticated e-commerce products. "But it can only help people get comfortable with doing their shopping online. It's easier to sell one $100,000 licensing fee to an organization that has a full-blown IT department than it is to sell to Ed's House of Liquor who's going to phone you twice a week to figure out how to turn his browser back on. A recent Gartner Group survey estimated that even a dip in the e-commerce waters can cost between $300,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars) while a full-fledged run at market domination can cost a firm up to $20-million in Web site development costs. Chapters Inc. is reputed to have committed to spending $15-million (Cdn) over three years on its site, although neither Chapters nor Cyberplex will confirm that figure.