Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Web Services Put EBay, PayPal in ... - Computerworld
Web Services Put EBay, PayPal in ... - Computerworld
"Opinion by Mark Hall
OCTOBER 11, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - ... your supply chain pocket. Enterprises like Dell Inc., IBM and the state of Oregon already use eBay Inc. and its PayPal Inc. online payments division to profitably move unwanted capital goods that are gathering dust on their shelves into the hands of people who can actually use them. But eBay, which gets a small cut from each transaction processed on its site, sees a huge growth opportunity if it can make it even easier for companies to leverage its global buying community within their supply chains. Not a bad idea, since the online auction site handled more than $12 billion worth of transactions last year. So San Jose-based eBay is bulking up its Web services offerings in an attempt to entice third-party and corporate developers to more tightly integrate its online auction and payment technologies into packaged and custom applications."
"Opinion by Mark Hall
OCTOBER 11, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - ... your supply chain pocket. Enterprises like Dell Inc., IBM and the state of Oregon already use eBay Inc. and its PayPal Inc. online payments division to profitably move unwanted capital goods that are gathering dust on their shelves into the hands of people who can actually use them. But eBay, which gets a small cut from each transaction processed on its site, sees a huge growth opportunity if it can make it even easier for companies to leverage its global buying community within their supply chains. Not a bad idea, since the online auction site handled more than $12 billion worth of transactions last year. So San Jose-based eBay is bulking up its Web services offerings in an attempt to entice third-party and corporate developers to more tightly integrate its online auction and payment technologies into packaged and custom applications."
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