Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay's global marketplaces business, has been
telling BusinessWeek about a sea change in eBay's pricing structure. Calling
it "the biggest, most fundamental change we have made," Norrington has told
BW that eBay will today announce plans to reduce the upfront fees it charges
to list sale items - source of up to 60% of its revenues till now - while
increasing its final sales commission to make up for the reductions, which in
some cases will be by as much as 75%.
The change, BusinessWeek notes, amounts to the "Amazon-ification" of eBay.
BW quotes Scot Wingo, CEO of e-commerce software company ChannelAdvisor, in
its analysis of the news:
"EBay's move to court more fixed-price sellers is likely to be just as
controversial as its prior changes. Auction sellers have argued that eBay is
favoring fixed-price goods to their detriment, neglecting ... (more)
Project Zero is an agile development and execution environment which
leverages REST and scripting runtimes to speed and simplify development of
dynamic Web applications. Project Zero includes a scripting runtime for
Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for
producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces.
Project Zero is being developed openly using a Community-Driven Commercial
Development process at http://www.projectzero.org. In this session, the
audience will get an overview of the Project Zero Platform and learn how to ... (more)
Sybase Chairman, CEO, and President John S. Chen recently granted a pair of
exclusive interviews to SYS-CON.TV, during which he held forth about the
past, present, and future of Sybase, the software industry, and the complex
challenge of understanding China.
SYS-CON Special Correspondent John A. Barry and West Coast Bureau Chief Roger
Strukhoff conducted the interviews, which were held at Sybase headquarters in
Dublin, CA.
Chen discussed how previous concepts from Sybase such as "information
liquidity" and "the unwired enteprise" remain key components of what the
company is worki... (more)
IBM has announced that Gartner has positioned IBM in the Leaders Quadrant in
its November 22, 2006 report, "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools,
2006." According to Gartner, "Leaders" are performing well today, have a
clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to
sustain their leadership position in the market.
The IBM Information Integration portfolio provides one of the industry's
broadest and advanced software platforms to help organizations leverage their
investment in information technology. As a proofpoint of the company's vision
for data... (more)
S.P.I. Dynamics, a leading provider of Web application security testing
software and services, today released research from its SPI Labs division
predicting the top Web application security threats for 2007. The research
found that software developers who embrace Rapid Application Development
(RAD) to bring solutions to market faster will only add to the growing number
of application security defects hackers can target unless security is
embedded in key phases of the application development lifecycle. In addition,
hackers will likely escalate the use of file format attacks and br... (more)
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