This book provides the lastest technology you need to know for doing business in today's Internet-intensive environment. It provides many real-life examples from the business world: what companies did right and what they did wrong.

Dedication.


Preface.


Acknowledgments.

I. TECHNOLOGY BASICS.

II. FRONT END: PRESENTATION.

III. NUTS AND BOLTS OF INTERNET BUSINESS.

IV. BACK END: SUPPORT.

V. APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL HELP.

Electronic Commerce  [KEY TRADE TITLES]   (MIS)

GAIL HONDA is President and CEO of Global Optima Inc., a technology development company in Honolulu, Hawaii. She served as Director of the Program in Applied Quantitative Research at the University of Chicago and on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of Hawaii. She holds an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Tokyo.

KIPP MARTIN is Professor of Operations Research and Computing Technology at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He teaches Internet business technology to MBA students and executives in the U.S. and Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Cincinnati.

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• Current Internet hardware and software technologies and their implications
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• Internet business models and marketing: lessons of the dot-com crash
• Internet security: protecting your data, applications, and customers
• Relational databases, data warehouses, and data mining
• Microsoft(r) .NET versus Linux(r), Java(tm), and the open source movement
• Selecting a Web hosting service, last-mile connection, and application service provider
• Web services, SOAP, middleware, enterprise application integration, and B2B integration

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