In this millennium electronic business is growing rapidly in the cyber world or the Internet. This is prior to the massive growing of Internet users over the entire world. The Internet Service Providers (ISP) are also providing competitive prices for the Internet connection, where it enable people from all background to able to use the Internet with a unlimited monthly usage with a fix price; or limited monthly usage with hourly charges or other type of charges calculation.
With the existence of Internet, the term electronic-commerce and electronic-business are on the rise of this new age of technology. According to the book ‘Electronic- Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2006 by Efraim Turban, Pearson Education’; Electronic-Commerce involves business transaction such as buying, selling, or exchanging product, services, or information via the system networks. As for Electronic- Business is a broader term or definition of Electronic-Commerce not only just include the attribute of Electronic-Commerce but also including servicing customers, collaborating with other business partners, and conducting electronic transmission within an organization.
There are many type of transaction or interaction in Electronic-Business; such as Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Business (C2B), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C), Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Mobile-Commerce, E-Learning and many more of example.
The infrastructure for the E-Commerce or E-Business can be done by using multiple programming tools available in the Internet. Some are free or cost us some amount of payment to able to make full use of the software application. Software such as Java, Visual Basic, Oracle, System Query Language (SQL), Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language (xHTML), Macromedia Dreamweaver, and to name a few.
This entry will be an overview or introduction of E-Business or E-commerce, the type of interaction involves and application software that require to build the infrastructure for online environment.
Next entry will be discussing more detail on the type of infrastructure and application software that require to build client server.
Reference
Efraim Turban(2006), "Electronic-Commerce: A Managerial Merspective 2006", 2006 edition, Pearson Education.
