Based on the Commerce One MarketSite Portal Solution, and powered by Microsoft, this exchange will create a secure, electronic marketplace where buyers and sellers around the world can conduct business. At the same time, we expect the exchange to stimulate new thinking and innovation. Let's say your company wants to investigate everything there is to know about a new laser application. Now you can solicit a response from anyone and everyone . . . Think of the flood of ideas that will suddenly be displayed for you.
Technology is an enabler.
It is the means to an end - not the end itself. The great inventors have seldom been the solitary geniuses of popular myth. They have always been great borrowers and adapters. Where breakthroughs have occurred, it has often been because of their ability to combine a profound grasp of what is already known . . . They are always a marriage of new and old.