Microsoft along with 14 other companies are setting up a website offering IT managers advice on business-to-commerce e-commerce advice. These partners include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Attenda and consultancies such as Netcraft.com and Blueberry.net.

The Web Venturer website intends to show how businesses can be built using Microsoft's .net technologies and also guidance on building start-up businesses attracting venture capital funding.

This information should also be useful for established companies to evaluate their own business plans especially as organisations are no longer trying to create a website quickly, they are taking their time and planning these developments more thoroughly and effectively.