[photopress:JackMaalibaba_1.jpg,full,alignright]Alibaba, which is China’s largest e-commerce company and compulsive reading for some outside China, has launched a new Web-based business software targeting its 18 million users. Jack Ma who is Alibaba, told a news conference in Shanghai that, ‘E-commerce is changing the way companies do business.’
So his company is launch some new software called Alisoft. Of it, Jack Ma said, ‘the software will provide easy solutions to customers to integrate e-commerce with their back-end systems.’
Porter Erisman, speaking for the company, said there was growing demand for business software among small and medium-sized Chinese companies seeking to boost efficiency. He said the hosting of the software on the Internet avoids problems with rampant illegal copying. He said, ‘We feel that now is the perfect time for this.’
Be interesting to see how it works out. Google did it and it has been something considerably less than a total success. Web hosted software can work very well. But what happens when the Internet comes down as it did over the Christmas period?
Source: Shanghai Daily