transaction sites

Their general goal is to target advertised illicit transaction sites and hopefully take the financial incentive out of the spam cycle.

"They are already emerging as the software company on the Internet," he said, noting Oracle's success in providing databases, applications and business-to-business transaction sites.

Buyers do vast research by going to Kelley Blue Book and edmunds.com first, and then they go over to the transaction sites like AutoTrader and eBay.