News Flash: eBay Is Down.(implications of failure of online auction site)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal, October, 1999 by King, Elliot

The implications of electronic commerce failures such as the recent crash of eBay are discussed. Electronic commerce and online auctions represent a very new technology that is not always robust. Technical teams cannot always be blamed for not achieving 100 percent uptime. People expect E-commerce sites to always be 'open' even though brick-and-mortar businesses do not operate on a 24-hour basis. The E-business market will have to evolve to adjust to new business models.

When the eBay online auction system crashed in August for at least the fourth time this summer, it didn't make the same headlines its 22-hour outage did in June. That outage was plastered on the front page of The New York Times, and the focus of headlines on news, radio and television broadcasts across...

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