Chapter 9 Web Outsourcing— Introduction

The Web shall be the other timeless entity, like God.

Internet—Brief Background

The Web, the marketplace universe.

The advent of the Internet is almost as significant as electricity, the assembly line, the telephone, and the steam engine. Other than the Internet, few concepts have caught the attention of financial markets, news media, government bureaucrats, and the public at large with so much sound and fury. The Internet has become the leading buzzword that has so many definitions and is known variously as the electronic, interactive, or multimedia information superhighway.

The Internet is a large group of millions of computers (greater than 6 million computers currently) located around the ...

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