There are four categories of capabilities that are weak or non-existent on the public Internet that need to get fixed before we will see large amounts of company-to-company internetworking. The four areas are security, reliability, billing and navigation. Sure we have some pieces of each, but they all need to be made far more commercial-grade.
Predictor: Lynch, Daniel C.
Prediction, in context:In an interview for InfoWorld in 1994, Jayne Levin, editor of The Internet Letter, asks Daniel C. Lynch, “What role do you see the Internet playing in enterprise internetworking?” Lynch responds: ”The Internet is using the same technology that all the large enterprises in the world are using internally. Why not use that same technology base for interenterprise internetworking? (Gee, what a stupid-sounding mouthful.) So, it sounds pretty obvious, but something is missing. There are four categories of capabilities that are weak or non-existent on the public Internet that need to get fixed before we will see large amounts of company-to-company internetworking. The four areas are security, reliability, billing and navigation. Sure we have some pieces of each, but they all need to be made far more commercial-grade before Procter & Gamble will send real work back and forth with its advertising agency over the Internet.”
Biography:Daniel C. Lynch was the founder of CyberCash Inc. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: To Dream the Internetworking Dream
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 16, Issue 18, Page S72 ISSN: 01996649
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