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Summary: First Rate!
Review: The book covers all aspects of Electronic Commerce from a theoretical to a practical level. It can be both a deskside reference or "how-to" guide to utilitizing this rapidly expanding and essential technology. I found the discussion on mobile electronic commerce and security technologies particularly useful. The authors have done all the hard work for you and presented this knowledge in a way that will quickly make you a E-Commerce expert as well.
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Summary: First Rate!
Review: The book covers all aspects of Electronic Commerce from a theoretical to a practical level. It can be both a deskside reference or "how-to" guide to utilitizing this rapidly expanding and essential technology. I found the discussion on mobile electronic commerce and security technologies particularly useful. The authors have done all the hard work for you and presented this knowledge in a way that will quickly make you a E-Commerce expert as well.
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Summary: Fourth Edition
Review: The fourth edition of Electronic Commerce is excellent. John Vacca continues to provide up-to-date information on this topic.
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Summary: E-commerce
Review: The world of e-commerce has been flipped upside down in the past couple of years, and this book does a great job of capturing the change and getting anyone up to speed who has been out of the picture or just wants to fill in the blanks. It's easy to read, points to many resources available, is categorized in a way that makes sense and helped me quickly find the information I needed to write a winning e-commerce proposal, even though I'd been out of that game for a couple of years. Its release is perfect timing as many compaines are gearing up to finally do the e-commerce thing, or simply want to revamp systems that are beginning to show some stress and signs of age. This is, of course, not the only e-commerce book you'll ever need---things will change and lets all hope that Vacca does a fifth edition in 2005!
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Summary: Buy Safely, Sell Safely...
Review: Thinking of buying something from the internet safely and securely with complete peace of mind? Thinking of selling something or starting a business and wanting to confidentally offer your customers the peace of mind they need to safely conduct business with you? Why not consult a man who's also written books and advised experts (including some for NASA network engineers) on network security? John Vacca has excellent credentials and three former editions of this particular volume in his history. This book contains everything a business person with novice computer skills will need to start a successful business in the digital world.
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Summary: Chock full of updated information
Review: This book is chock full of updated and usefull information. Not just a "rewrite" of previous editions.
This fourth edition continues to be a first rate reference on subject of e-commerce.
Book is full of case studies and sample scenarios that face anyone interesyed in developing, maintaining, using and managing within the e-commerce field. Especially useful is John Vaccas background and vast knowledge in computer security
issues. Security is constantly addressed throughout the book.Informative, constructive and through! Buy it you'll like it !!
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Summary: This book is a guide to reality.
Review: To win on the Internet you must understand where the opportunity is today and how to prepare for tomorrow. This book is a guide to reality. It will show you where there is opportunity. It will also show you how to benefit from using the Internet as a practical business tool and how to reap benefits quickly and permanently. This book will show you how to succeed where others may have failed. There are many building blocks in the world of electronic commerce. This book explains Internet business models, business applications that can be supported on the Internet, and how companies can benefit from using new models and new tools. Don't deceive yourself. Don't think you know it all already. The dead dotcoms thought they knew how to do it, but they didn't. You need a good grasp on the models and the potential applications and this book will provide you with that understanding. You need to know the building blocks but you also need to know how to put those blocks together in a winning combination to build a good foundation for your business to grow and thrive in the world of electronic commerce. The blocks are just like parts to a puzzle. They will not work unless you properly combine tools, methods, and know how to exploit opportunity. This book explains how to mix the essential building blocks into a working and winning combination that can help drive your business in new directions. After you learn about the parts and how to put them together to supercharge your company you will also need to know how and where to drive your new business machine. Other how-to-do-business-on-the-Internet books will leave you high and dry and never tell you how to drive. This book shows you how to drive your business like a race car, how to steer through uncertainty, and how to grip the road so you do not end up in a dotcom graveyard. But you will need more than just the gas pedal if you are going to succeed in electronic commerce. Entering the world of electronic commerce is like going on a safari or expedition into unexplored lands. You need to be able to navigate your business into uncharted territory. You will need balance, intuition, and considerable daring if you are going to maximize the tools of the Internet. You need to know where the edge of the cliff is and how to not fall off, like so many of those who came before you. That is the big pay-off of this book. This book provides you with a good foundation, the ability to understand and assemble parts into a functioning whole, how to steer through rough terrain, how to navigate through uncertainty, and how to live to tell about it. Before you go down the path of electronic commerce re this book. If you are already on the electronic highway and you are getting concerned about stability and your future read this book. If you have gotten stuck somewhere on the Internet and do not know where to turn read this book. Don't be afraid to move ahead, to move to the Net, just know where you want to go and how to get there. Read this book!
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Summary: electronic commerce (networking series)
Review: Vacca has yet outdone himself again with a more up-to-date version of the Electronic Commerce. In this fourth edition, he tackles yet again the security issues, touches on mobile technology and gives a great high-level overview for management overall. This book would be useful in the hands of all management in the telecom field and should be a must read on all telecom corporate reading lists. Thumbs up to Vacca for creating another great read.
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Summary: electronic commerce (networking series)
Review: Vacca has yet outdone himself again with a more up-to-date version of the Electronic Commerce. In this fourth edition, he tackles yet again the security issues, touches on mobile technology and gives a great high-level overview for management overall. This book would be useful in the hands of all management in the telecom field and should be a must read on all telecom corporate reading lists. Thumbs up to Vacca for creating another great read.
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Summary: Essential and up-to-date reading on e-commerce
Review: With the rate of change in communications and internet, and the associated applications, Vacca has to keep his running shoes on to keep us up-to-date with it. This newest book on Electronic Commerce delves into mobile technology, catches us up with lessons learned over the past few years in e-commerce (particularly with security issues and all the creative new types of fraud), and provides good recommendations about implementing websites and shopping carts. Particularly interesting - and perhaps controversial - is the chapter on digital currencies. This book is not one of his most technical bits-and-bytes ones; his audience would I think be more management level, and he makes a good case for outsourcing. However, he provides some good models for shopping cart implementations and client-server application decisions, and I found his comparative descriptions of web software and database interfaces the clearest I have ever read (especially with the caveats concerning their varying suitability to heterogeneous environments). And his tables, appendices, and references alone make the book a valuable resource - from e-commerce companies and providers and conferences right down to a listing of some standard EDI transaction codes. Useful, highly informative, and very readable.
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