But the argument--if you build it, they will come--smells of the Internet craze when dot-com businesses sprouted on the Web and not enough people came.

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Give Akamai this: It has been through the fire and come back alive after many of its dot-com brethren perished.

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Many of the companies that will go public in the year to come are far more substantial than the dot-coms that rose to fame in a flash and disappeared in a poof.

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"If it can get onto an over-the-road truck that's DOT legal, it can come into the building, " Mr. Wise said.

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