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Summary: 10% useful content, 90% filler
Review: This book feels to me like the authors came from a teaching background, had a few original ideas about how to cover certain broad topics in their own personal way, and then went overboard saying the same things over and over again as if paid by the word.I had to buy this book because it was required for a class at Regis University Online. I would have preferred to choose my own book. I started reading diligently and eventually came to the conclusion that the book was a waste of time. Even if the blithering was taken out and the useful information condensed, the book still wouldn't be saying very much. Here's an example from chapter 5, "Conflicting Goals and Requirements." The reader expects to learn how to balance the two. Instead, we get this (this is the chapter summary): "Whenever different participants in a system have different goals and requirements, there is a potential for conflict. This is particularly true in a new industry like Internet commerce, where there are few established standards. Our advice is to build a list of the participants in your system, and to be very clear about their goals, interests, and agendas. Understanding the participants, their goals, and their interests is very important in framing both the business problem and the technical challenges to be overcome." ...huh? No answers, just laborious advice telling you to be aware of the problem. I would expect this sort of thing from a nerdy friend that thinks he knows what he's talking about and just likes to hear himself talk. Or from a business meeting where people like to make lists but don't have a clue about what to do about the issues at hand. If you really, truly don't have a clue about Internet commerce, and want to read 350 pages of monotony and still not have a clue, this book may be of interest to you. But if you're intelligent enough to be reading reviews first, you know enough to look elsewhere.
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Summary: A must for those venturing towards e-commerce
Review: This is an excellent book, addressing business as well as technical issues. It should appeal to technical and not-so-technical people. It provides (in one book!) almost all you'll ever need to know about e-commerce, business and technical issues, pitfalls, solutions and so on. It would be of value, whether your direction is commerce on the Internet or business-bussiness via a Virtual Private Network. (The principles are the same). I say: Invest in buying this book!
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Summary: a very good introduction
Review: This is the fundamental book for everyone who wants to develope e-commerce.Authors give all the information you need to start building e-commerce.They review all aspects of e-commerce from TCP/IP throught java applet and ActiveX components to designing e-commerce system.It is really worth to buy.Enjoy!!!.
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Summary: Internet Commerce is a Reality
Review: _Designing Systems for Internet Commerce_ will give readers, in a comprehensive and practical manner, the basic principles of system design, the best design practices, and reality-based advice on implementing those designs. In addition, this book describes the key technologies that are relevant to e-commerce and explains how to apply them using numerous examples. In addition, the authors (who are both from Open Market, Inc. - a company that develops software for internet commerce) walk the reader through a full-fledged Internet commerce system design to illustrate all of these strategies, technologies, and functions in action.
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