Largest e-commerce players will face major load-handling challenges this year

[mandy]

When Amazon.com crashed for almost 2 hours on Monday, it might have meant little were it not for the fact that a major industry report had predicted it just three days earlier.

Amazon.com has built a reputation for being an aggressive, take-no-prisoners kind of company, but it showed its more cooperative side this week.

Late last week, Internet traffic monitoring firm Keynote Systems issued a report that said many of the largest e-commerce players will face major load-handling challenges for the holidays if they don't make big changes by the fourth quarter.

However, after so many years of holiday shopping seasons, some in the industry scoffed that the majors could be caught so short...

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