In this age when an Internet eon is roughly the equivalent of a calendar year and any given company titan can flicker out of existence in a flash, few companies, especially those solely Internet-based, are seen as enduring and solid and fated for perpetuity. Among these rarities, the world’s largest online auction company, eBay, certainly holds it own. Even so, eBay too can be gobbled up by the times if it stands still even for a minute. Survival for eBay, like many companies, depends more on advances in science than it does on marketing trends of the day or P&Ls that speak of profits past.
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eBay's Paul Strong on Building the Data Center of the Future
Posted by: Pam Baker July 25, 2008 08:30 AMIn this age when an Internet eon is roughly the equivalent of a calendar year and any given company titan can flicker out of existence in a flash, few companies, especially those solely Internet-based, are seen as enduring and solid and fated for perpetuity. Among these rarities, the world’s largest online auction company, eBay, certainly holds it own. Even so, eBay too can be gobbled up by the times if it stands still even for a minute. Survival for eBay, like many companies, depends more on advances in science than it does on marketing trends of the day or P&Ls that speak of profits past.