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A conversation Paul Graham by Jim Veitch is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A conversation Paul Graham about?
A programmer by training, Viaweb President Paul Graham has become a successful entrepreneur in the rapidly evolving realm of online commerce. Viaweb's site (www.viaweb.com) allows sellers to easily establish online storefronts and makes user navigation, selection, and purchasing simpler than traveling to a traditional shopping mall. Guest Editor Jim Veitch spoke with Paul Graham and learned firsthand how distributed dynamic system technology is meeting real-time needs in the real world. How would you describe your business and how did you become involved? Viaweb makes software for making online stores. The big division in our market is between software for companies that want to set up their own servers, and software for companies that want to have their site hosted for them. Viaweb is for the second group, which is much bigger.When we started Viaweb in the summer of 1995, there was no such thing as e-commerce software. The few stores then on the Web had been built by hand. So we thought, where will this market go? When making an online store is as easy as using a word processor, what will it look like? To our surprise, we figured out the answer: users would edit their sites on the
Who reads A conversation Paul Graham?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Jim Veitch
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)