Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Exodus Communications, Inc. (EXDS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pruguy who wrote (965)	7/28/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: Lucinos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3664

I got the same impression that it is a little bit too late for big companies to kick-off the competition for Exds. However, what I heard is slightly different. I was told that you can buy servers hardware and software from any providers, such as sunw, ibm, hwp, cpq(digital & tandem), dell, msft, emc and orcl, and set it up at Exds's data centers. These big guys are actually supporting exds very well, and some of them even recommend you to put your web toys at exds. There is also one thing that can not be overlooked. As you know, ebay is primarily using Exds to host their web site, and ebay's site was catastrophically went down a few times recently. Did you notice that the news releases for ebay's crashing was only related to ebay and sunw. No one has ever pointed the fingure on exds. I was confused at that time. However, my friend confirmed to me that exds has nothing to do with the crashing since exds is not owning ebay's servers or running ebay's software. Based on this, I was quite amazed by the business model that created by exds. It is really very smart and creative. Lucinos