Some of IBM's previous partners include the Vatican library, the Martin Luther Museum in Germany and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. The site has given the Hermitage the ability to become an e-commerce business, enabling the museum to attract new members, seek contributions and sell calendars, gifts and brochures. Anything that boosts the museum's income is fine by Piotrovksy. But there's one hitch, he said. It's not a problem to sell something over the Internet, but you must deliver it.
Delivery is a problem.
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