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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (77291)	2/21/2000 4:40:00 AM
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ICGE poised to rebound......from BBC: The Internet's role in spurring electronic commerce between businesses as they line up suppliers and customers in virtual networks, or form real-time marketplaces to trade goods at the speed of foreign exchange, is a tough one to display. But the market for dealings between businesses, known as ''B2B e-commerce'', was worth $145 billion worldwide last year, according to information technology research firm Gartner. Europe accounted for $32 billion and by 2004 European B2B will be worth over $2.34 trillion. Gartner puts worldwide B2B e-commerce in 2004 at over $7.29 trillion, nearly as big as the whole U.S. economy in 1999. At German ceBIT fair this week, LINUX will shine.............. Europe's true pointy-heads will see Linux, the upstart computer operating system, mounting in prominence as the system developed largely by Internet bods enters the commercial age, and with it Wall Street investors' hearts. ALSO.........Sony Corp. is developing applications on Linux for its upcoming PlayStation 2 game console. Chipmaker Intel Corp. is developing information appliances that run on Linux. National Semiconductor Corp. will offer its WebPad Internet appliance on Linux. "The information appliance market is a very good fit for Linux," said IDC's Kevin Hause. "As the number of application developers increase, the opportunity for Linux to be used as a platform will become greater." Analysts say there's another reason Linux is gaining in the information appliance space. Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE, aimed at the same market, hasn't become widely accepted by device makers. Some users and analysts have criticized it as having too many bugs. And it's controlled by a single company.