"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. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Java Web Development with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>