BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
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Antitrust Scrutiny of Business-to-Business Web Sites
Corporations hoping to create business-to-business portals online should be sure take antitrust issues into account. (11/15/2000 at gif.com)
Application Service Providers: Next Step, Survival
Why the short-term outlook for ASPs is bad, but the long-term outlook is good. (1/17/2001 at Lighthouse on the Web)
Approaching the Chasm
To cope with the recent gyrations in the tech stock market, business-to-business Net companies will need to start focusing on niche markets, rather than the breadth they've been going after. (5/8/2000 at The Industry Standard)
B-to-B Sprouts Outside U.S.
Business-to-business exchanges are out of favor in the U.S., but internationally, the WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE), iMerchants, MeetChina.com and other B2B players are going strong. (11/28/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Deep Pockets Can't Save B-to-B Marketplaces
Industry-led business-to-business exchanges that aren't making money, like Chevron's Silicon Valley Oil, are failing, just as many dot-com-led b-to-b exchanges already have. (2/21/2001 at Upside)
Government Takes Stock of B2B Sites
Government regulators are unsure of how to treat business-to-business portals that competitors inside various industries are creating; they don't want to stifle business development, but want to enforce antitrust laws. (9/20/2000 at The Washington Post)
How Infrastructure Became a Sexy Word
Why business-to-business software and services, rather than Web marketplaces, will help businesses run and interact better. (9/1/2000 at eCompany)
Plan Aims to Foster Electronic Commerce Between Businesses
IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba plan to announce the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration project (UDDI), which should make it easier for businesses to automatically discover information about each other's services and products. (9/5/2000 at The New York Times)
Reinventing Ourselves
The original business-to-business projects tended to fail because they didn't address the issue of trust between buyers and sellers; but the ASP market may hold more promise. (4/27/2001 at Web Review)
Signs of Maturity as ASPs Consolidate
With the closing of HotOffice and Red Gorilla and Agilera's acquisition of Applicast, the Application Service Provider market is starting to consolidate. (12/21/2000 at IT-Director.com)
Sizing the ASP Market
Revenues for Application Service Providers in 2000 are projected to be between $1 billion and $3 billion, depending on how you define their revenues. (11/3/2000 at eMarketer)
The ASP Revolution Has Been Postponed
After all the hype about application service providers (ASPs) and the money that has gone into the sector, many are realizing there are too many providers chasing too few customers. (6/20/2000 at Red Herring)
Web hosting: The Next Generation
New business-to-business infrastructure companies are taking place of the first-generation failures; notable entries are LoudCloud (former Netscapees) and NOCpules (Excite@Home veterans). (7/17/2000 at ZDNet)
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