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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (28323)	9/30/1999 8:27:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Lets hope DigitalMe and IChain will supercede current directory & eCommerce software plumbing at the likes of AMZN, YHOO and AOL. Any comments on what's out there now, and how NOVL's products will do? Will NOVL get any transaction fees for eCommerce sales as INKT does? TIA-- QuadK +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ washingtonpost.com Amazon visitors will see a new "zShops" label across the top of all pages that will take them to a directory organized by product categories. Merchants can pay extra to have their names and logos more prominently featured on the directory pages. Shoppers also can do a simultaneous search of merchandise sold by Amazon and zShops. ZShops is similar to what Yahoo acquired in June 1998 when it bought Viaweb Inc., a Web storefront company that had 1,000 paying merchants. Yahoo renamed the service "Yahoo Shops" and has since signed up 6,000 merchants. On Yahoo, merchants pay $100 a month to list up to 100 items, or $300 monthly for 1,000 items. There are additional fees for credit-card processing and high-volume sales. Amazon charges everyone the same monthly listing fee of $9.99 for up to 3,000 items. Merchants who opt to use Amazon's "one-click" checkout system pay an additional 60 cents per sale plus 4.75 percent of the price. The checkout system allows users to store their billing and shipping information online so they don't have to reenter it each time. and Amazon also will let merchants cross-link their items with specific book and music titles sold directly by Amazon. For example, someone selling Middle Eastern spices could link the merchandise to related cookbooks, which means a link to the store would pop up whenever shoppers searched and found those books. John Briggs, Yahoo's director of e-commerce, said Yahoo Shops does more general cross-linking of its store areas with related categories in its Web guide. "We have so many merchants that you can't cross-link them all individually," Briggs said. Participating merchants at Amazon and Yahoo include individuals, mom-and-pop operations and traditional retailers. AtYourOffice.com, an online office-supply store based in Arlington, has signed up to sell on both sites.