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Wal-Mart web site down for 10 hours

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Posted Friday, 24 November 2006, 19:09 HST @173

From Yahoo: The Wal-Mart web site was down for 10 hours today as thousands of Internet users overwhelmed the site. Analysts have ranked Walmart.com as the 21st largest web site in terms of user volume.

Wal-Mart’s problems started around 4:30 AM ET, and continued throughout the morning.

Amazon offered 1000 Xbox 360s for $100 each, among other items. Amazon.com management said their site experienced about 15 minutes of problems.

Tags: Amazon, e-commerce, key-success-factors, reliability, USA, value-chain
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