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The end of e-business as we thought we knew it: the night of the living B2B exchanges. (Home).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-AUG-02 		Format: Online - approximately 838 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The end of e-business as we thought we knew it: the night of the living B2B exchanges. (Home).(Column)

Article Excerpt
During the late '90s and the early part of 2000, many people were busily working in startup X or Y, gleefully anticipating an initial public offering and the promise of cashing in on the New Economy.

Then the bubble burst.

Many people are out of work due to poor stock performance, unrealistic business models, or "vulture" capitalists. Several successful e-business companies watched their stock values plummet and began laying off employees, attempting to lower costs while winning the favor of Wall Street analysts.

We may not have hit bottom yet--several integration vendors' stock values are hovering at (or below) a dollar per share. Rather than address the entire tech sector, let's take a closer look at a specific strategy that promised (yet failed) to...



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