Lefigaro.com : the revolution of marketplaces

In le Figaro, a file which is defining the stakes of the electronic marketplaces ( /www.lefigaro.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid=FIGH2YB8MIC&live=true&Site=true&gCurChannel=ZZZXG1K648C&gCurRubrique=&gCurSubRubrique="> 'Marketplace : la 3ème révolution industrielle ?'). As for Catherine Dufrène, the author of the article, this revolution, which concerns business between companies, will bring considerable upheavals in the world economy. ' The advent of Internet,she says, has allowed the birth of a new economic model which is revolutionizing the rules of business between companies. The marketplaces, these spaces for virtual exchanges, are abolishing the role of intermediary and are favouring direct transactions between buyers and sellers.

The different applications are gone through : alliances between companies, common interests, 'specialized niches', 'collaborative projects of groups' (the PACS of the network economy), vertical market places with regards to big industry areas or horizontal ones, etc. Among examples quoted in this big file, Etexx from Nice and its textile marketplace have to be noticed.