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| diwas k | Posted
on 22-Mar-02 11:46 PM
Here is an article lifted from this link, March 29, 2000 issue of Cyberpost, an Internet Publication. As you read this in its entirety, can you tell if some section has been lifted from another source, without the author, in this case Rabin Bajracharya (about Rabin) properly mentioning where he lifted it from? Or even failing to acknowledge the fact that he LIFTED it? This would be a good example of outrageously poor copy-lifting work. I will leave it to you to find the real (REAL) author's work. Hint... www.sun.com *********************** Dot com revolution Dot Mania -By Rabin Bajracharya mailto:rbajra@ulysses.net The big story at the turn of the century -- the story with the biggest impact and the most staying power -- was the new Net economy. 1999 was the year "dot.com" became indelibly etched in our minds. The Net has not only reshaped business as we know it, but our society as well -- how we work, how we play, how we communicate, how we learn. The changes have become so pervasive, in fact, that 1999 may go down in history as the year of the dot. Everything, it seems, is now online -- and people are taking advantage of it in record numbers (67,000 new users a day, by some estimates). They're paying bills, trading stocks, bidding on antiques, buying books, sharing photos, ordering groceries -- you name it. To do all that, people are no longer dependent on desktop computers. Mobile phones and other wireless devices have also joined the .com revolution (and appear likely to become the most popular Net access devices of the new millennium). All this didn't just happen in the past year, of course, but it did reach critical mass. I mean, people started to take note when online sales tripled in 1998 -- then they tripled again in 1999. Everywhere you look now, the dot is there. Television programs routinely advertise their Web sites. Newspapers and magazines direct readers to additional articles online. Retail stores put their Web addresses on shopping bags. After witnessing all these changes I do not understand why Nepal’s business and technology industry seems motionless. The starting does not have to be big millions of dollars worth database and EDI (Electronic data interchange) driven sites. There’s always a beginning but economist and technology leaders should come out of their box to develop and deploy eCommerce and eBusiness infrastructure. We know Nepal do not lack people with technical skills. That’ll be the worst excuses one could make for Nepal being backed up in eCommerce revolutions with rest of the world. Dot-comming the business used to be trendy. Now it's essential. Why? Because even the estimated $12 billion consumers spent online in 1999 was dwarfed by the $109 billion predicted in the year 2000. Especially for a country like Nepal there is a trememdous opportunities out there in the internet. Just a few days ago I saw Merchantile’s employment section covered up with web developers hiring and now USA based www.dhukuti.com, really kicked off dot.com in Nepal. I hope economical and technical leaders in Nepal will not delay any more in adopting dot.com trend in Nepal. ****************************************************** _diwas |
| Biswo | Posted
on 23-Mar-02 11:03 AM
Diwasji: Kudos to you. I suggest you to start a antiplagiarism consultancy in KTM to save our editors from the scourge of plagiarism. Aru laai kina dukha dine? Please compare a part of this article from www.sun.com by not Rabin(Thanks to set theory)! ------------ As Sun turns 18, we look back on the year's most significant trends. By Ed Zander The big story at the turn of the century -- the story with the biggest impact and the most staying power -- was the new Net economy. 1999 was the year ".com" became indelibly etched in our minds. The Net has not only reshaped business as we know it, but our society as well -- how we work, how we play, how we communicate, how we learn. The changes have become so pervasive, in fact, that 1999 may go down in history as the year of the dot. Everything, it seems, is now online -- and people are taking advantage of it in record numbers (67,000 new users a day, by some estimates). They're paying bills, trading stocks, bidding on antiques, buying books, sharing photos, ordering groceries -- you name it. To do all that, people are no longer dependent on desktop computers. Mobile phones and other wireless devices have also joined the .com revolution (and appear likely to become the most popular Net access devices of the new millennium). All this didn't just happen in the past year, of course, but it did reach critical mass. I mean, people started to take note when online sales tripled in 1998 -- then they tripled again in 1999. Everywhere you look now, the dot is there. Television programs routinely advertise their Web sites. Newspapers and magazines direct readers to additional articles online. Retail stores put their Web addresses on shopping bags. But just as traditional companies are learning the value of the Internet, companies born on the Net are learning the value of good old-fashioned bricks and mortar, building vast warehouses and distribution centers. So the year of the dot could also be described as the year bricks met clicks. Perhaps the biggest shift of all, however, was from products to services. Take software for example. Does the average person still buy software? Web browser and e-mail software are free. So are chat and calendaring. And now even standard office productivity applications are available at no cost. Think about the software you use to trade stocks online. It isn't a product; it's part of the service. Soon we'll think of all software that way. Better yet, we won't think about it at all. We'll just use it, and let our service provider worry about installation and upgrades. IN THE SPOTLIGHT WEB SURVEY What do you see as the most important high-tech trend of the past year? Business-to-business e-commerce? Free software? Bricks and clicks retailing? BETTER WITH AGE: Eighteen years of network computing culminate in comprehensive .com solutions. Even the most tangible products, things we can hold in our hands, are becoming just another part of the service. Sign up for wireless service, you get a free phone -- that's hardly new. In 1999 we saw the concept extended to PCs. In the years ahead, who knows, even our refrigerators could be part of an online grocery service. The .com world is being invented so quickly that companies are creating new services and business channels from one quarter to the next. It used to be that dot-comming your business was trendy. Now it's essential. Why? Because even the estimated $12 billion consumers spent online in 1999 was dwarfed by the $109 billion predicted for business-to-business transactions. You think consumers like online auctions? Businesses are bidding on the Internet as the procurement channel of the future, increasing efficiency while lowering costs. At Sun, we believe the real revolution lies in how the Internet is enabling companies to interact more efficiently with suppliers and partners as well as customers -- not to mention their own employees. So one of the most significant trends in the year of the dot may also be the most ironic. Many companies, you see, are shifting their focus away from technology and back where it belongs -- on their core businesses. It's a trend that Sun not only saw coming but helped to accelerate: the rise of outsourcing. Companies of all sizes are starting to realize that everything from e-mail to ERP can be handled more efficiently (and cost-effectively) by a service provider. The key is choosing a service provider that can deliver those services around the clock. And that's what our SunTone[sm] certification program is all about. It sets rigorous standards for building a highly reliable, highly scalable service-delivery environment -- from architecture to operations, applications to security, service policies to technical competencies. With all that taken care of, companies of all kinds can concentrate on what they do best and not worry about technology any more than they worry about electricity. The power and depth of all this change will no doubt continue to inspire our thinking for years to come. But it just may be that 10 years from now, we will look back and think, 1999 was indeed the year it all took off. The year of the dot. Welcome to the millennium. Many happy returns. ....................... .................. |