E-commerce Basics

This book introduces the basic technological infrastructure and basic business issues that you must understand to analyze the feasibility of E-commerce initiatives. This book takes a layered approach that first presents the basic web technology that supports all of e-business, then presents the e-commerce business issues, and finally revisits technology to discuss the challenges of bringing business to the web. Since the web wasn't created for business purposes, the issues of combining business applications in a technical environment are examined.