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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (42458)	1/7/1999 5:13:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

Hi Skeet, FWIW I agree that the wheel is more important than the net, I mean, like, duhh, whatever, but it does look like smart people are figuring out ever smarter ways to do business on the net. Here is a guy who sells specialty chemicals, the article is really interesting: forbes.com >>>>>"After graduation Perry became the CEO of Virogen, where he encountered the inefficiencies of the traditional catalog-based method of ordering and procuring life science products. On average, scientists at his company would spend four to five hours a week looking for specialty chemicals, thumbing through at least a half-dozen catalogs. An expensive way to do business, he says. "I discovered that this market could use some efficiencies, " recalls Perry. While lacking the technical savvy, he figured out that the Internet was one way to lower the costs of printing huge catalogs and updating the information. "I thought if we could put the supplier and the buyers [of the specialty chemicals] together in one place, it would make ordering these chemicals easier," he says. His job was made simpler by the fact that most of the scientists were already on the Internet."<<<<< Of course, this has nothing to do with the price of AMZN, but I just thought it was neat. I know I have told you about how much I use the NIH's PubMed site, but it's not full text. I just found out that my public library has a lot of health related stuff, actual medical journals, full text, on the net. It won't do you any good for me to give you the link, you need a valid Fairfax Library ID# to access it, but I bet your library has the same thing. And yes, you guessed it, it's free.<g>