(too bad I'll be boycotting Yahoo soon because they use pop-up ads which
I consider SOoo unprofessional)

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:00, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 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)
> 
> -Andy
> 
> 
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