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To: 24601 who wrote (3364)	7/24/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: FLOTSAM	Respond to of 11417

To All: I picked up an interesting magazine called "Global Technology Business", July '98, issue 7: Lengthy articles about E-Commerce. Some interesting excerpts: "No-one now debates whether ecommerce will 'catch on'. The new discussion is to what extent it will do so. According to market analyst firm IDC, commerce on the Internet was worth $8 billion in 1997, up from $2.6 billion in 1996. By 2002, it will be worth $333 billion. But forecasts vary enormously. For example, IDC says that European ecommerce revenues will rise from $2.7 billion in 1998 to surpass $30 billion by 2001, while Forrester Research says the market will be worth $64.4 billion in 2001, from just $1.1 billion this year." "Strategic Infrastructure" " . .good support for software at the front-end will count for little if it is not compatible with incumbent information systems at the back-end. . . Organizations with large investments in IBM platforms will incline towards IBM's solutions, a predisposition that the company's 'e-business' marketing campaign plays to remorselessly. But IBM's message risks becoming muddied as it integrates Net.Commerce into its newly announced WebSphere Web application server strategy, which introduced an exra tier of secure, specialist hardware for the internet into the overall computing architecture. This is more secure, reliable, easily managed, and carries out key middleware functions. But equally, it may mean that the back-end host application is capable of supporting the ecommerce transations directly by using the extra tier." See ya later--gotta go make me a wave sandwich with a lot of extra "tiers".