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To: R W Reactionairy
but based on Amazon there is no evidence that Bezos can do anything more efficiently than NASA

Bezos survived the .com bubble. I think the market disagrees with you.

I've worked with government publication ordering web sites. They cost more to develop, had about 1/1000th of the product to move, had fewer customers, and had outages that were measured in days.

15 posted on 08/06/2003 6:39:21 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (I'm just a cook.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Bezos survived the .com bubble. I think the market disagrees with you.

Two points:
(1) Beezo is / was the dot com bubble. Amazon is either unprofitable or marginally profitable depending on whether you use GAAP or "pro forma" numbers / include the value of stock options or whatever. There is a decent chance that it can become profitable, but that does not make Amazon a well managed company with a sound business plan or indicate that Bezos has any magical abilities.
(2) You are correct that the market disagrees with me ... but that does not mean that I am wrong over the longer term. One lesson should have been obvious after the dot com bubble --- there may not be a "greater fool."

21 posted on 08/09/2003 8:46:42 AM PDT by R W Reactionairy
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