The JIP Editor is William Christensen. In his other life Bill is a doctoral candidate at Oklahoma State University in Marketing. He brings with him an impressive background that includes five years of doctoral studies at Michigan State University in Purchasing and International Business. Bill also manages and operates The Purchasing Station at http://management.bus.okstate.edu/faculty/christensen/. Contact him at .

JIP is envisioned as a leading edge publication which informs purchasing professionals and executives on principal developments, benchmark practices and future trends in the Internet purchasing practices of government and business. We invite purchasing professionals, academicians and publishers to submit important announcements, original articles, guest columns and significant feature presentations. JIP will also welcome surveys, book reviews and letters to the Editor.

JIP articles will be published on the Web at http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jip/ and abstracts/excerpts will be distributed to email subscribers every two months. On the Web site you will also find a Compendium for posting notices of innovative products and services, and the IP-Forum for discussions of Internet purchasing issues. We will appreciate your assistance in identifying potential advertisers and sponsors whose support will allow us to maintain JIP as a free service for purchasing professionals.

To subscribe, send email to jip-request@ARRAYdev.com with the word "Subscribe" in the BODY of the message. An online subscription utility is available through the JIP home page at http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jip/

I believe JIP will provide an interesting and valuable service to purchasing professionals who are exploring and developing effective ways to use the Internet and Web-based tools. I look forward to your comments when the first JIP rolls off the presses -- figuratively if not literally!

Nahum Goldmann
Publisher