It's very different than the old school. Some of the parents have said the school looks like Barnes & Noble. |
That causes real headaches for companies that have servers in the U.S., customers in Europe, and a branch in Japan. How they move the data around is now actually subject to government regulations in all these different countries. |
That's a pretty big challenge and it requires both technical retrofitting of databases that didn't used to have to talk to each other, and rethinking of the management structure. There's a lot of effort behind the scenes that companies typically don't anticipate when they open up their Web site. |