Issue Welcome to the post dot-com era.
It's a year since the Nasdaq began imploding, and today many dot-coms are on life support or have gone broke. To my amazement, some observers have come to the extraordinary conclusion that e-business and the net are a bust. When the Nasdaq bubble burst last year, the argument goes, so did the credibility of the New Economy. I understand the argument's appeal. Managers can stop worrying that some dot-com startup will crush them overnight.