Think of the Net economy as something close to the Indianapolis 500.
Competition is fierce.
Companies are obliterating speed records as they race to produce dot-com solutions in their markets. According to a widely published Microsoft memo, Windows 2000 still contains tens of thousands of bugs. It's obvious that Microsoft just doesn't understand that the future of Internet computing is all about designing systems and software for massive, massive scale and continuous realtime access - a development that soon could render some technology paradigms obsolete. Technology of the future must support a world in which Internet usage doubles every 100 days. It must support a world today in which a single online service provider can consume 28 terabytes in 45 days - activity equal to all usage on the Internet for one month in 1997.