The auction-focused Aucor web-site, developed and hosted by Data Pro, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and network integrator, was announced as a finalist in the recently-held First Tuesday web-site awards.
First Tuesday looked at a number of criteria, including speed and overall design.
Douglas Reed, managing director of Data Pro, said Aucor is one of the e-commerce web-sites which have "stood the test of time". The web-site is now three years old.
Although Woolworth`s inthebag.co.za web-site took top honours, piping Standard Bank`s Mylife@bluebean.com and Aucor, Reed was quick to point out that inthebag.co.za cost about 30 times more to develop than Aucor had. "Mylife@bluebean.com also cost a lot more than Aucor to develop - and yet Aucor was ranked up there with them. This proves that if you get the fundamentals right in e-business you don`t have to necessarily burn cash."
During 2000 Aucor was hailed as the fastest e-commerce web-site in South Africa following research conducted by independent e-commerce research company, IP-Man.
IP-Man conducted its survey on-line to find out which local web-site was the fastest. Including in the research criteria was the requirement that the web-site had to use a recognised ISP with adequate speed and bandwidth, and that it enjoyed enough connection points into the SA peering point. The research company also took into account what type of hardware the web-site had deployed and how the system was designed.
With more than 100 000 different items now for sale on-line at Aucor, the web-site is now regarded as one of the most successful in SA.
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