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Technology Stocks : Ariba Technologies (Nasdaq-ARBA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Martin Rasch who wrote (531)	11/17/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2110

Not me... although they had it at Cisco when I was there, and I know it was not considered a "killer app" relative to the I2 implementation that was going in. But thats because (at that time) ariba was the old non-manufactured goods purchasing engine - it was last year. As far as office supplies procurement, if I were a CIO I'd use Staple's outsourced website for that, and group my orders by company to get the best price. The old office supplies ariba is like peoplesoft in my mind... the benefits don't outweigh the hassle of implementing yet another client/server package and especially not one that talks to your ERP. It was only the GM deal that made me realize that C1 and arba really are trying to get into the production cycle, but until that auction purchase from C1 there was no real indication of that from anybody.