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To: dotcomboy who wrote (4208)	7/23/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Well, eBay has NEVER had 99.9 percent up-time. They go down for at least 4 hours every week, for "maintenance". That brings them down to 97.6 percent up-time. Then, I can't recall any week during the past two months when they were not out of commission for at least a few hours. They were down 45 minutes on Thursday afternoon, to reboot the system. (This does NOT include the major outage, nor any of the 4 to 6 hour outages they have had in the past two months.) 99.9 percent up-time would be great, but don't count on it any time soon. Sure, eBay has a great business model -- perhaps the best on the Net. But, they must execute, and that entails a lot more than keeping the system up. Growth was slowing even before the system problems, and growth is simply anemic right now. There is a tremendous amount of noise in the auction space right now, and eBay needs to spend a lot of time and money to make sure anyone who wants to buy and/or sell online looks to eBay online. The simple fact is that eBay IS, BY FAR, the best place to get bids and exposure when you have something to sell online.