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To: GST who wrote (103248)	5/11/2000 6:26:00 PM
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FYI. Alibaba.com-B2B with focus in China. John Wu, Chief Architect of Yahoo!'s Search Engine, Joins Alibaba.com as Chief Technology Officer Wu Attracts Strong Team of Silicon Valley's Leading Internet Technology Professionals to Join Alibaba's U.S. Operations SHANGHAI, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2000-- Alibaba.com, leading business-to-business marketplace for global trade, annnouced today that John Wu, chief architect of Yahoo!'s search engine, has been named the company's chief technology officer. Wu joins Alibaba.com to develop the company's e-commerce software and technology platform and has attracted a team of Silicon Valley's leading technology professionals to join Alibaba.com's new R&D Center in Silicon Valley. Wu worked for Yahoo! Inc. since joining the company in April of 1996, directing the engineering team of search and e-commerce technology. He is the chief architect of Yahoo!'s directory search engine and its many applications, which have demonstrated superb scalability, efficiency and reliability. The core component of this technology was awarded U.S. patent No. 5991756 on Nov. 23, 1999, where Wu was named the sole inventor. He also led a team of engineers and technical professionals in the design and implementation of the project code named ``semi-structured search'', which is a highly specialized database system providing vital infrastructure technology for Yahoo!'s e-commerce efforts. This software had been deployed on over a dozen Yahoo! services including Yahoo! Auction, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Classifieds, and Yahoo! Message Boards. He also directed the internationalization efforts of these software products. ``Yahoo!'s search engine has shaped the way millions of people surf the Internet. Now Alibaba's e-commerce platform will fundamentally change the way people conduct business online,'' said Wu. ``Alibaba can run 50 kilometers and hour and now we've found a person who can help us run 100 kilometers per hour,'' said Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba.com. ``As the world's leading B2B site, Alibaba.com needs experts in the increasingly competitive Internet world and our new CTO will dramatically strengthen Alibaba's e-commerce platform.'' Prior to joining Yahoo!, Wu was the development manager at Oracle's Server Technology Department. He worked on many projects such as Oracle ConText, a natural language processing product, and Oracle Graphics. His biggest achievements at Oracle include the design and implementation of the ``bitmap indexing'', which is now a key feature in Oracle 7.3 and Oracle 8 database systems. Wu received a BS degree with High Distinction from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1989, majoring in computer science. He was born in Shanghai, and studied in Shanghai Jiaotong University. ``Alibaba's unique B2B concept is taking the Internet and e-commerce to the next level,'' said Wu. ``The goal of building the world's largest B2B platform is an irresistible challenge to any Internet engineer. With the state-of-the-art technologies, Alibaba will launch an online platform for the whole world at Internet speed and take the lead in the arena of B2B e-commerce.'' Wu's clout in the U.S. technology community helped attract a strong team to join Alibaba's R&D Center in Silicon Valley. So far, Alibaba has attracted Silicon Valley's Internet elite, with a team which draws experience from Oracle, Yahoo!, Excite@Home, E-loan and GetThere.com. Alibaba.com now has 17 employees in its U.S. R&D Center. About Alibaba.com Alibaba.com is the world's leading online business-to-business marketplace and is host to China's largest vertical trade communities. This company is focused on facilitating trade among small and medium sized enterprises through its web-based information and e-commerce platform. Alibaba.com's web properties have a combined membership of 190,000. Alibaba.com is headquartered in Hong Kong with R&D and customer service operations in Mainland China and branch offices in Seoul, California and London. Alibaba.com's institutional investors include SOFTBANK, Goldman Sachs, Transpac Capital, Fidelity Capital, Venture TDF, Pte Ltd of Singapore and Investors AB of Sweden. Alibaba.com's Board of Advisors includes Peter Sutherland, founding director-general of the World Trade Organization and Masayoshi Son, president and CEO of SOFTBANK CORP.