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CyberTerrorists
hit CastingTrade
(4/10/01)
Ariba: "Earnings Shortfall,"
Layoffs (04/03/2001)
New e-commerce name: SAP
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| CyberTerrorists
hit CastingTrade - The CastingTrade
home page was temporarily unavailable late yesterday afternoon
after hackers attacked our web hosting service. (Currently,
all CastingTrade functionalities are "open," with
all information freely available to marketplace participants,
and so we do not use a high security hosting service.) None
of the other parts of the site (i.e. the other pages) was affected,
and the home page was restored after a few hours.(4/10/01) |
| Ariba:
"Earnings Shortfall," Layoffs -- E-Commerce
software provider Ariba, which had been flying so high that
it was able to purchase SupplierMarkets for $900 million last
summer, today announced a loss for the latest quarter. Ominously,
Ariba said it will lay off one third of its staff -- 700 workers.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Credit Suisse First Boston analyst
Brent Thill as saying, "the tech companies are all being
impacted by the same virus. No companies want to embrace new
technology at the same time that they are laying off 20% of
their staffs." (04/03/2001) |
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e-commerce name: SAP -- The German
software giant, SAP, whose "enterprise resource
planning (ERP)" software appears to becoming nearly ubiquitous,
made a major announcement of its future direction this week
before a conference of 9,000 users in Lisbon. SAP has developed
a product together with U.S. e-commerce software company Commerce
One to serve "private exchanges" -- virtual marketplaces
linking a company to its business partners but closed to competitors.
This approach is distinct from public exchanges which are open
to all market participants. |
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