You can roughly define electronic commerce as the transactions leading to the sale or other transfer of title for payment between producer and customer. Because e-commerce software has a spotty record for actually making money, financing for it seems to binary: Either you have a big customer that insists you implement a compatible system or your manager uses some form of black magic to justify the project. However, it's apparent that the Web has generated a great deal of enthusiasm for e-commerce. The questions now are who will be the winners and what's the winning strategy--not which vendors will succeed (unless you work for a vendor or own a lot of stock in a particular company). What opportunities does e-commerce create f or rank-and-file business organizations? How can companies that want to develop an e-commerce strategy approach the market with the right technology, make the best decisions and ultimately contribute to the bottom line? CMP Network Computing
ReadE-commerce and directory services are the plumbing of tomorrow's Internet. As such, they demand more attention from the talented and passionate core engineering community that has brought us this far. Unfortunately, that community labors under a self-imposed separation from the applications its networks support. CMP Network Computing
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