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To: OLDTRADER who wrote (103455)	2/21/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Of Winners and Criers. -1998's E-Commerce Winners- WBM: Now here are the gold medal winners in E-Commerce for 1998. ========================= (Source:PlanetIT) by John Fontana (1/ 7/99) InternetWeek "Which would you rather be: a conqueror in the Olympic Games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?" -- Homer In 1998, a select group of companies, technologies and individuals were conquerors that reduced their rivals to mere criers by turning in enviable results. They were the gold-medal winners as the Internet and IP technology dominated the enterprise and the industry. These individuals and technologies defined an industry during a time when America is redefining the way it does business. No one helped craft that definition more than Dell Computer. The PC manufacturer's direct-sales and build-to-order strategies were legitimized left and right, as earnings skyrocketed and channel-huggers Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM scrambled to find a way to mimic the success without nuking their existing businesses. Direct selling also proved to be a fertile foundation for Web sales,...... and embarked on an ambitious plan to Webify its links with suppliers, service partners and corporate customers in a complete value-chain continuum. Other companies also hit high notes. Lucent Technologies broke from its telecommunications roots, buying up networking companies such as Livingston Enterprises, Prominet and Yurie Systems. Lucent also used its deep pockets to develop voice-over-IP products. Sun Microsystems was another top performer. It won a court order forcing Microsoft to make its version of Java compatible and became a major enterprise software player by buying the right to redistribute Netscape products. It also released its Java 2 platform and Enterprise JavaBeans specification.