In brief: Bay Networks launches online sales

By Julian Goldsmith, 14 September 1998 18:00

NEWS Bay Networks is to launch an ecommerce site on the Web, in competition with its rival, Cisco. The company announced that it would continue to sell equipment through its channel partners, but commentators are sceptical whether it will be able to maintain this costly relationship. They believe that Bay will have no choice but to maximise on its margins by selling to its customers direct.

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