During
the Spring of 2000 and Autumn 2000 and 2001 students with a bachelor's
degree in engineering participated in an estimation which was
intended to investigate the possibilities to manage a virtual
company by means of collaboration. The test subjects developed
a virtual company operating on the Internet with suppliers available
on the Internet. The test subjects' satisfaction and perception
of the estimation were solicited. The task was complex, but taking
into consideration the test subjects' background, their degree
in engineering, as well as their several years of industrial experience,
these students, if any, should have the capabilities to manage
the task given and thus provide us with some valuable information
about the possibilities of collaboration and virtuality in the
Internet.
