Splat! WalMart.com CRASHES on Black Friday! Amazon and Disney have problems too!

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Splat! WalMart.com CRASHES on Black Friday! Amazon and Disney have problems too!

11-25-2006, 11:08 AM,

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Splat! WalMart.com CRASHES on Black Friday! Amazon and Disney have problems too!

Quote:A crush of online shoppers paralyzed Walmart.com, the Web site of the nation's leading retailer, for long periods on Friday.

Black Friday saw consumers struggle briefly to access the Web sites of several top online stores. But the most serious service disruption was at Walmart.com, according to Ben Rushlo, senior manager of competitive research at Keynote Systems. He said performance at the site fell off dramatically starting at 4:30 a.m. ET on Friday.

"We pretty much saw a 100 percent outage on the Wal-Mart site until 2:30 p.m. Eastern time," Rushlo said. "Wal-Mart took the site down at one point and put up a splash page that said, 'Sorry, we're experiencing high volume.'" ...

full article: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=walmart.com&btnG=Search+News

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