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Designing Systems for Internet Commerce (2nd Edition)

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The book is geared for IT professionals. This still is the only book that views Internet solutions in a decomposable architectural perspective. It contains a good chapter on the value chain, payment systems and transaction processing. The graphics are clear and reusable. It had a little too much overview material on related topics and not enough alternatives to the authors' company solutions. Great book for budding technical architects. More books are needed that address lessons learned from real architects. This fills that gap.

The authors are clearly qualified and knowledgeable, but the book suffers from being a dry and largely superficial overview of almost every concept related to computers, IP networking, telecommunication and e-commerce. Little space is devoted to real-world examples, illustrations of products and promise of specific technologies in e-commerce.

The book is probably written to those who need a some "corridor competence" to talk about these matters, but there's little technical "meat" to be found here.

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.

I'm sure there's valuable content here somewhere, but it is dispersed amongst so much filler, I found it too time-consuming and frustrating to seek it by reading or skimming. A typical paragraph read sort of like this: "[Commerce is the aggregate set of interactions between "buyers" and "sellers". "Buyers" include "purchasers", "acheteurs", "cash acquirers" and "credit acquirers". "Purchasers" includes the group of individuals and businesses who acquire goods and services for cash. "Goods" are objects, and services are performance-related.", etc.] I'm sure the authors put alot of time into this, and I'm grateful to them--this is a subject I really wanted to know about, and I suspect they don't get paid that much for writing books like this. Nevertheless, I wish they had focused on putting 50 tight valuable pages up front.

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!

The first part of the book is about doing business, the second about technology. Although it covers all the process of doing business online, the book does not focus very good in either part. Very good for beginners, and has some interesting information for most people, but there are other more focused books that discuses each process of the online business in depth.

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!!!.

Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, Designing Systems For Internet Commerce by computer security experts and consultants G. Winfield Treese and Lawrence C. Stewart is an informed, thoughtful, and imminently practical examination of what it takes to create an effective and secure system for successful Internet commerce. From learning the basics of Extensible Markup Language (XML), to adapting to mobile and wireless systems, managing shopping carts and other online means of taking orders, to exploiting the Internet to market one's goods at a much lower cost, Designing Systems For Internet Commerce is an excellent and highly recommended introductory reference for any company or corporation seeking to make the most of the twenty-first century's advances in technologically driven commerce and networking.

I would like to advise this book for the people who are actually business based, but also want to know a little bit of the technical issues of e-commerce.

I not really went through all contents inside the book because I read it somewhere at the book store near my town . Well it really can help much for my E-Commece