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Computerworld has a short bit on Amazon.com's success this year.  Some highlights:

• 2.1M items ordered on busiest day -- that's 24 orders/sec!
• Amazon's busiest day was December 15, when 630,000 shoppers were online in a sixty minute period.
• Over 1M orders shipped on peak business day.