Examples from Recent Intranet Start Up Conference
June 30-July 1 meeting in San Francisco featured 94 of "hottest" start ups building intranet (business grid) software (http://www.tpsite.com)
Multiple Choice Question to 500 people in audience: What is most important influence on industry?
- Microsoft 57%
- Application Servers 19%
- Java (on server) 19%
- IBM and Netscape 3% each
Which Company was most likely to Succeed?
- Ariba Technologies ($113M valuation) building business to business extranet ("grid") support for electronic commerce