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  • U.S. small businesses make up half of the U.S. Gross National Product (GNP), account for 23 million U.S. businesses and employ almost half of the work force.
  • Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 1999
  • PC and Internet penetration will steadily increase among small businesses through the year 2002. Nearly 70% of small businesses will have Internet access in 2002. Moreover, the number of small businesses with home pages will more than double to 1.5 million in 2002 from 670,000 in 1998.
  • Source: IDC/LINK, 1999
  • Total IDS (Internet data services) revenues will reach a projected $69 billion in 2003, from $19 billion in 1998. Access revenues should rise close to $50 billion, while VPN and web/application hosting services should jump $20 billion by 2003, from only $1.5 billion in 1998.
  • Source: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 1999
  • Within the next five years, we believe that the e-commerce market will reach over $2 trillion, or 20% of the U.S. economy.
  • Source: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 1999
  • We estimate that the business-to-business market in the U.S. represented $114 billion in 1999, projected to grow to approximately $1.5 trillion by 2004.
  • Source: Goldman Sachs Investment Research, 1999
  • E-Commerce has the potential to capture 20% of U.S. retail sales in 5-10 years.
  • Source: Lehmann Brothers, 1999
  • "The next big wave of computing and process automation, we think, is automating B2B commerce, how companies collaborate across the supply chain with customers, suppliers, and partners."
  • Source: Rick Sherlund, Goldman Sachs, September 7, 1999

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