Re: Gartner Group: The Cost Of Ecommerce

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

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Everyone should read this article: you're bound to laugh your ass off.
I really wonder what kind of companies were involved in this survey, because
the prices mentioned are even more than some medium/small businesses' total
annual profits.
They even state you should spend about 1-5 million bucks for a site with
good functionality (hahaha...).

> What you think, after having mused about the enlightening content
> of this article, can we live without it or will it enhance our
> efforts to use MV to beat the numbers 8-).

For me both will go: for me this article helps, because I know that the
project I'm putting in allmost all my spare time, once it's finished, will
have been rediculously cheap and will have functionality I would never have
hoped for.

I'm definately doing this as a kind of test: can a guy like me create an
e-commerce site that will work so well, it 'll pay off well too ? Great
challenge, but allmost getting there...

Thanks Birgitt for your little "auskuenft",

-Gideon



> ******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk
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> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Steve Cockwell wrote:
>
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Steve Cockwell
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> > I thought this may be of interest to the folks on the list:
> >
> > (Aside:  If anyone here is a UPS-style lookup guru I'd love to hear from
> > you (I'm setting up CanadaPost lookups for shipping within Canada...))
> >
> > > Building an enterprise-class Ecommerce site is anything but "cheap,"
> > > according to a May 27 Gartner Group report titled "Survey Results: The
Real
> > > Cost of E-Commerce Sites"
> > >
(<http://gartner11.gartnerweb.com/public/static/aboutgg/pressrel/052799site_
> > > costs.html>). It pegs the average cost of developing and implementing
a
> > > large scale Ecommerce site at a cool million dollars. 79% goes for
labor,
> > > 11% for hardware, and 10% for software.
>
> I bet they haven't discovered neither MiniVend, nor Mike Heins'
> incredible focussed, fast and hard working approach to build
> such sites for MUCH less.... 8-)
>
> What you think, after having mused about the enlightening content
> of this article, can we live without it or will it enhance our
> efforts to use MV to beat the numbers 8-).
>
> Birgitt Funk
>
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