After New York, any other town may be Pittsburgh, but former Lotus Development Corp chief Jim Manzi was never going to stay out of the industry for long, and having found the corporate culture at IBM Corp too alien, he had to satisfy his urges, even if it did mean joining a firm in the Pennsylvania steel town. He will stay in Boston as president and chief executive of privately-held Industry.Net Corp, which he says really does have a model for making money on the Internet. Its business will be secure electronic commerce using existing Electronic Data Interchange standards and it aims to launch its service in a few months. It claims it has as members 200,000 buyers with potential purchasing power of $165,000m and about 4,000 companies listing products and services, ranging from computer-related equipment to industrial supplies. Companies listing products will pay a fee ranging from several thousand to several hundred thousand dollars.
