Wednesday, May 08, 2002

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - This Is Your Father's IBM, Only Smarter - But the real key to IBM's victory was much more prosaic and ultimately much more ominous for its rivals. eBay confirms that it was dazzled by IBM's expertise with the open-standard Java programming language and the power Java offered in a world of ever-increasing technological complexity. That's particularly telling given that BEA's partner, Sun, invented Java.
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EBay Makes Move to Draw Big Companies. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Moving further from its roots as an Internet market for mom-and-pop collectibles, eBay Inc. is working with Accenture Ltd. on a new service aimed at helping big companies unload excess merchandise on the site. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
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Who goes there? eBay wants to know. The online auctioneer is to announce a pact with VeriSign to confirm that sellers are who they say they are. But will it stop online fraud? [CNET News.com]
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