What a difference a year makes

What a year it has been for electronic commerce. Twelve months back e-commerce was the darling of Wall Street analysts, the great equalizer for Small Business, and a dream of marketing management come true, and suddenly e-commerce has hit the unforgiving wall of reality with a resounding bang. But it behooves us to be a little more discerning in our analysis and verdict when it comes to judging the electronic commerce revolution, for, to paraphrase Twain, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.