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To: Susan G who wrote (61537)	9/16/1999 5:07:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 120523

DON"T FORGET AGILE!........ Commerce One keeps dreaming of eBay By Vanessa Richardson Redherring.com September 14, 1999 Even in these days of ultra-hype, Commerce One's (Nasdaq: CMRC) press alert predicting its new service would "promote the largest mass adoption of automated online purchasing to date" seems like overkill. Commerce One, based in Walnut Creek, California, is a major player in the fast-growing business-to-business electronic-commerce market, linking companies worldwide to buy and sell everything from coffee cups to PCs. Think of it as an eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) for corporate supplies. The market is huge. Commerce One and its competitors Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) and Concur Technologies (Nasdaq: CNQR) install corporate-procurement software for fees ranging from $500,000 to $4 million. Commerce One's MarketSite.net auction site, which vies with sites from Ariba and VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT), essentially offers online catalogs to corporations. Market research firm IDC predicts that B2B e-commerce will rocket over the next five years to $1.38 trillion from $30 million last year. "Everyone hears about eBay's exploding stock price, but the corporate market has far more potential than the customer market," says Hambrecht & Quist (NYSE: HQ) analyst Ian Morton.

To: Susan G who wrote (61537)	9/16/1999 5:18:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

and PPRO!........Pointing to PurchasePro.com's successful IPO earlier in the week, Keenan said that the market is starting to realize the potential of the business-to-business e-commerce market. "When you think about creating a new exchange for a trillion dollar industry like chemicals, you get kind of excited," Keenan said. "If you just get a small percentage of those payments you will make more profits than even eBay has ever dreamed of."