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In article <61406.1620023@livwir.livewire.com>,
Gary Garchar <Gary_Garchar@livewire.com> wrote:
>I thought Smart Valley was a non-profit organization created to advance the
>development and use of a regional information infrastructure in the SF Bay
>Area.   I read that if the Smart Valley project is successful, access to the
>right companies on the information superhighway may replace geographic
>proximity as the cornerstone of the relationship between manufactures and
>their parts suppliers, thus giving companies yet another reason to flee
>high-cost, high-regulation regions like Silicon Valley.  Is Smart Valley
>really the most promising Joint Venture initiative to find ways to expedite
>business transactions via the information superhighway?
Having a data link with suppliers is good for what?  Just in time
manufacturing would be my guess, and the further away the actual producer
and consumer the harder it is to manage that relationship.  So until
you can have a replicator on the your end of the net, manufacturers will
want to be close to their suppliers (all else being equal anyway).
	-jrg

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