[8807] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: VERY serious $ Business now done on Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Sun Dec 5 17:09:37 1993
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 16:10:18 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
>dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes) says:
>BTW, anyone want to argue with Mary Cronin, who, according to Cook's review
>of her "Doing Business on the Internet" holds that "...no business - be it
>a single self-employed writer or a mid-sized trading company, or a huge
>industrial concern - can expect to operate competitively and successfully
>without an Internet connection?" And uses the CURRENT business use of the
>Internet and the trends they portray as her evidence?
>
>THAT, to me, is *real* NEWS that America ought to know about.
Just as a data point, I find myself 20-05% less interested in dealing with
a potential vendor (for any kind of products) if they don't have an
Internet email address. Some of the worst offenders (for not having it) are
large telecomm companies pushing commercial use of IP networks. Curious.
larry
