He has acknowledged that selling Web software is going to require a massive shift inside Oracle, notably on the part of salespeople.
Miller, a veteran of Cisco, is aiming to take Polycom from its roots selling Web cameras and conference phones, and make it more of a high-margin enterprise software company.
During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.
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Some hot brands, such as Liz Claiborne, are bent on avoiding selling on the Web altogether.
In addition to tracking people, KISSmetrics focuses on providing actionable metrics that help businesses selling on the web to improve their bottom line.
The company is selling this svelte Web to makers of laptops.
Not long ago a VC offered to close a round of funding for Bhatia's latest startup--Arzoo.com, which mysteriously promises to revolutionize buying and selling over the Web--during a round of golf at Pebble Beach.
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Unlike most manufacturers, the company has no interest in selling it on the Web.
Intel Corp. takes in a billion dollars a month selling chips on the Web.
There are hundreds of Web sites selling sauces and chili seeds, says Dave DeWitt, of Albuquerque, N.
Beam has resurfaced via the Camden Collection, selling furniture through a Web site and a showroom at the Dallas World Trade Center.
Even brick-and-mortar behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has invested in upgrading its Web-selling capabilities.
Flameouts such as boo.com, Pets.com, Etoys and Cyberian Outpost made selling stuff on the web look deceptively simple at first, then brutally inefficient.
Fearful of alienating retailers by selling on its own Web site, it instead inventories and ships its own and rivals' gear for dot.com merchants.
The first is by selling seats on their own Web sites and together on Sabre's Travelocity, American Airlines' booking service.
But the company is developing new businesses selling to creative professionals for web design and technology for mobile devices, like e-readers, which require crisp fonts.
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Someone, for instance, like Amazon.com (AMZN), which for sometime now has already been selling digital videos over the Web, and which has a considerably bigger user population than does Netflix.
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Most plan to make money by selling advertising on their own Web portals, and in the portal game capturing a large number of consumer eyeballs is an essential first step towards building a viable business.
The company has also recently begun selling watches and sunglasses over the Web.
These are mostly e-commerce businesses, selling things like domain names and web hosting.
Few companies are selling to them effectively through the Web, though, since most Web sites are built by young people for young people.
As for entering the business of selling ad inventory in non-Web media, there is a huge potential--assuming Google acquires companies with the proper expertise.
Earlier this year Narayen picked up another audience-tracking tech firm, called Demdex, to further entrench his position among companies that manage, analyze and act upon what people do on the Web, particularly around selling stuff.
"I've been part of the process of sitting down with a clean sheet of paper and conceptualizing a new TV show, building out the extensions and Web versions and then selling ad buys around it, " he says.
Just as Microsoft can give away its browser because it makes money from the Windows operating system and Office, so Sun can afford to make StarPortal free because it makes so much from selling the powerful servers that host web pages and other data.
Amazon notes that it has been selling hardcover and paperback books over the Web since July 1995.
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If they couldn't make money selling tools and supplies they would sell Web site expertise to other people trying to sell tools and supplies--like The Stanley Works.
For a company like HP, which makes the bulk of its revenue from selling desktop machines, the move to Web-based applications and the slackening demand for heavyweight computers don't seem like reasons to celebrate.
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