Omnexus was guilty of anything,it being too early out of the gates,"Jukes said."I think it went too far for an industry that wasn't quite ready for it.The industry will catch up.The only question is,will Omnexus still be around when they do?"The short answer for Jukes,who left Omnexus to become CEO of European material distributor Ditsrupol,is no.Launched in the e-commerce clamor of 2000,the site shut down despite the big-money backing of its founders Bayer,BASF,Dow,DuPont,and Ticona,and the glowing outlooks for B2B online commerce.Those rosy predictions remain-a report by PurchasePro.com for the U.S.Federal Trade Commission said online B2B in America was currently a US336 billion industry and predicted revenues would hit US6 trillion by 2005-but Omnexus is no more.
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