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Commercial access to a global market

Some companies are already doing business on the Web. It is highly likely that the volume of commercial transactions carried out via the Web will increase significantly over a relatively short period of time. An externally accessible server can enable a business to reach a rapidly growing global market of potential customers.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.