He used the company as an example of how electronic commerce should be done. The information infrastructure of any business will be critical to their survival. Companies will be able to leverage their geographical diversity and strengths of partners and clients to succeed in new markets. Their competitors of the past will not be the competitors of the future. Differences between business such as brokerage houses, banks and insurance companies will be begin to blur.
Cisco is one of the largest users of electronic commerce.
Customers can research, purchase our products and check the progress of any order through our web page. This has enabled the company to hire 1000 more engineers and move even further ahead. The only thing that I've never seen before was the Micro Webserver. A tiny box the size of a modem with a built in Zip drive. It runs Web server software right out of the box.