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Article: Five Holy Grails of IT.(InformationTechnology)
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- October 18, 2004
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Byline: Lillie Guyer SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Build to order. The Internet car. The wired company. A true online global auto parts marketplace. Internet car sales.
Surely you remember these ideas - or at least the hype surrounding them.
But more than four years after the technology bubble burst, these five concepts remain Holy Grails of IT. Here is a look at where each concept is today.
1. Build to order
In the late 1990s, the auto industry fell in love with the way that Dell Computer Corp. (dell.com) does business - that is, build the computer to the customer's specification. More memory? No problem. More programs? Done.
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