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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (15461)	12/22/2002 3:57:54 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 57684

You know whats wrong with that article... they are interviewing Chuck Phillips which means it is software-centric. I'm sorry to say that B2B software probably burned more IT managers than any other tech bubble capex deployment. It was something that was sold for a high price and never quite worked. I'm talking about the technology here, I know there are some firms like FMKT making a go of it now. In the beginning Ariba was a purchasing module bolton to an ERP that put the purchasing schedule on the web. This was useful, it kept the salesforce from having to make calls etc. But as the hype grew, the notion that Ariba was going to take over the entire order cycle really was a myth, there isn't an easy way to do that technically... your order cycle has a lot to do with manufacturing and other highly specific business processes that only reside in-house and you just can't demand products externally to a corporate ERP system with any sort of data integrity. That is the reality. I don't think the other areas of tech had a total misfire like b2b was... all the PCs and networking equipment basically worked it was just excess and overpriced.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (15461)	12/22/2002 6:41:50 PM
From: hmbsandman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Here's an interesting excerpt from the article. <..Views on the broader economy remain mixed, with the number of executives with a positive outlook climbing to 44 percent, but the number of those with a negative outlook also rose -- to 21 percent. But nearly 70 percent of those surveyed had a positive outlook on their own businesses' prospects...> So business executives remain positive on their own prospects, but are downbeat on the economy as a whole. Weird. I wonder if all the global uncertainty is blinding executives to the fact that things are in fact improving, albeit a lot slower than expected.