RE: Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Jim Davis
Message- > From: Erika L. Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 8:12 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Yikes! Best Buy down again.. > > Gel, why are you so fascinated with BestBuy? Do you have a vested > interest or something ;) > > O

Re: Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Dana Tierney
It doesn't seem like best practice, no. Some companies just aren't there yet. There are two local weekies here; one has an attractive, well-thought-out website which archives past issues and is easy to navigate. The other has a page that says "Under Construction." Which they advertise, just cause

RE: Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Philip Arnold
> And why...if a system is already up and working..would one > shut down that aspect of the business to implement a new > system? Wouldn't running them in parallel for a short time > until the changeover occurs be a better solution? Because it was buggy as Hell? The other reason is that RUWebby d

RE: Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Angel Stewart
I've been using Bestbuy recently to check what the hot products are in the states right now for a little webstore I am trying to get set up with products. Hmm...you're right. IT isnt' as devestating as if they were an Online Only store, they have a brick and mortar foundation. But is this sort o

RE: Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Erika L. Walker-Arnold
Gel, why are you so fascinated with BestBuy? Do you have a vested interest or something ;) Obviously they've made a major decision to completely shut down (in the beginning), then announce a "re-opening". Sure they are having technical difficulties ... But it's not as if they are offering a servic

Yikes! Best Buy down again..

2003-07-05 Thread Angel Stewart
"BestBuy.com is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please come back soon to shop our biggest store" I've been following this (and using the site almost daily) because it was a MAJOR site update. I think they totally changed out technologies to .jsp and added a lot of new