On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:07, Ted Husted wrote: > "Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:46, Ted Husted wrote: > > > yahoo.com goes way beyond a search engine: > > > > > > Email, address books, auctions, classified ads, file storage, calendars > > > and shared calendars, personalized portals for like 27 different sub > > > applications, the list goes on. > > > > > > Yahoo is delivering a vast number of dynamic applications to an > > > incredible number of users, with excellent performance and reliabity. If > > > there a success story in IT, this is it. > > > > > > > True, but it isn't particularly transactional in nature as far as the > > other features, more of a publishing type app. Sure the email, but that > > even has isolated data interaction.. Am I making sense? > > You need to consider that they are doing *everything*, including a very > complicated type of ecommerce through the auctions. That's the stunning > part. It's not just one banana, it's the whole bunch. > Ahh, you know, you're right. (I use all those things but forget they are there since they don't break often ;-)...come to think of it yahoo is a great example)
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