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To: William Partmann who wrote (640)	1/13/2000 2:23:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1938

Talk about sales streams, take a look. Nice article that lays out both the challenges to CMRC by ORCL and the potential in the Auto space. Automakers in B2B pacts Oracle, Commerce One run systems for automotive rivals' supply chains More immediately, Commerce One estimates that by the end of 2000, it will handle sales at a rate equal to $60 billion a year. That compares to $4 billion of goods that Forrester Research estimates that consumers bought online between Thanksgiving and Dec. 31, as e-commerce boomed. And Lane says that unlike the retailers selling goods to consumers online, they expect to make money on auto-Xchange the very first year. cnnfn.com