[LINK] Another B2B model starts to flake?

[Chirgwin, Richard]

According to current trends, it will soon be a zero-trillion-dollar
market...
RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Morris [mailto:jmorris@intercode.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 6 September 2002 09:43
> To: Chirgwin, Richard
> Cc: 'link@www.anu.edu.au'
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Another B2B model starts to flake?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> 
> > As I recall, it's only a couple of years since everyone was 
> hyping B2B
> > portals for the construction business.
> 
> Well, how solid is this type of prediction looking now?
> 
>   "By the year 2004, Forrester Research and Gartner Group predict B2B 
>    e-commerce transactions will top $7 trillion dollars, of 
> which 37% will 
>    be done via B2B marketplaces. More than 80 % of the Global 1000 
>    companies will participate in B2B e-marketplaces by 2002 - 
> and 100.000 
>    of these marketplaces will be operational by 2001."
> 
> (from http://www.itworks.be/marketplaces/)
> 
> I think these figures were later downgraded to $6T by 2004 
> and $1.9T by 
> about now.
> 
> 
> - James
> -- 
> James Morris
> <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
> 
> 
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