Research by the German branch of CVSI Services International, an Internet services and consultancy firm, indicates that companies wanting to earn money from the Internet must start out prepared to make losses. CVSI predicts that US firms will not start turning profits until the year 2000, and that it will take European companies even longer to move into the black.
德國一家網路服務公司（CVSI）研究指出，想從網路賺錢，初期要有虧損的心裡準備，他們預估美國公司要到西元二○○○年以後才能有利潤，歐洲公司需要的時間則更長。