Ebay history and architecture

I found the link at the bottom of that page to be much more interesting: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-eclipse-ebay1/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-eclipse-ebay1/i...</a>

Not a whole lot of detail here - there is a much more detailed history/expansion here: <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=1&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.addsimplicity.com%2Fdownloads%2FeBaySDForum2006-11-29.pdf&#38;ei=EU_SSdT8Mo7g6gPx-d2kBA&#38;usg=AFQjCNF04TT6k3T8qXGaQpo_isPbvO_Fpg&#38;sig2=DD01ElGxFm-kGnxgEXN47Q" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38...</a> (PDF)