Trading On The Internet In The Year 2000 And Beyond.

The big, established computer companies were and continue to be, Internet pioneers, particularly in establishing the infrastructure of the Internet. As such, these companies are committed to an ‘open systems’ philosophy - which rejects proprietary computer systems in favour of open systems that allow one computer to ‘talk’ easily to another. This same philosophy is also at the heart of the Internet. Major Internet users have paid back this commitment to open systems by using technology.