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DATA MINE Oct. 7, 1999 Who Will Get the Loot: The Plumbers or the Content Creators? Today's top moneymakers in the Internet economy are those companies selling the infrastructure to make the Web and e-commerce work. Other winners include content providers and Internet access services. But by 2001, as more business is transacted on the Internet, business-to-business e-commerce will topple today's leaders. The U.S. Internet Economy (in billions of dollars) Year Total U.S. Net Economy Infra- structure Access Providers Financial Intra- xbusiness Consumer Content 1996 15.5 4.4 4.2 0.235 0.806 0.583 5.2 1997 38.8 8.5 6.7 1.2 7.9 2.5 12.1 1998 72.5 16.5 11.2 2.5 17.3 5.0 20.1 1999 128.3 27.3 19.7 3.2 42.1 8.3 27.9 2000* 234 41.7 33.1 4.1 105.8 12.7 36.6 2001* 354.5 58.9 48.1 5 186.1 18.4 38.1 DATA: Forrester Research Inc. *estimates _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS Are You Being Truthful? More cybernauts may be lying about personal info to Web sites Conspicuous Consumption The Net procurement software market could soar to $4 billion by 2002 The Mother Lode Collected nuggets from Data Mine