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“PC Week” in its 5 January 1998 article “Intranets Poised To Grow, If Vendors Deliver” reports the data shown above from International Data Corp as well as IDC’s projection that WWW users would grow from the 50 million in 1997 to 100 million in 1998 to 20
“Business Week”(BW), 26 Jan 98, “The Virtual Mall Gets Real” (pp. 90-91) used Forrester Research Inc. data that suggested lower projections with total web spending at only $5B Although the projections were lower, both of these respected consulting compan
Dell Computers are selling $3M/day on WWW.
Amazon.com Seattle-based startup 1st to open an online bookstore, largest inventory, sales grew from $15.8M in 96 to 131.7M in 1997. “The lesson: Getting on the Net early can be a huge advantage, especially for tiny startups” BW 26 Jan 98. “The Virtual M
