By the end of 1999s 1:
40% of large organisations in Europe will use extranets to communicate with business partners, such as customers and suppliers
By the year 2000:
the electronic commerce marketplace will be worth $67 billion (compared to less than $10 billion last year)
No. of lines of code of the COBOL programming language in use today 2 :
Over 150 billion
Sources: 1 Novell/Gartner Group; 2 ACSIS Technologies and Micro Focus, announcing the latter's strategic alliance with Microsoft last week.
