Computer Science 1032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Network Effect, Software License, Ebay

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Louis Magguilli

Document Summary

Buying and selling of goods and services over public and private computer networks. Checking the weather at yahoo. ca is not e-commerce, but buying a weather service. This definition restricts e-commerce to buying and selling transactions subscription that is paid for and delivered over the internet is. E-commerce has a number of implications: technology perspective - defines the need for additional infrastructure. Management and governments perspective: coordination for smooth business operations, security must be enabled. Merchant companies: that take title to the goods they sell, buy goods and resell them, sell services that they provide. Non-merchant companies: arrange for the purchase and sale of goods without ever owning or taking title to those goods, sell services provided by others. Business-to-consumer (b2c: sales between a supplier and a retail customer (the consumer) Business-to-government (b2g: sales between companies and governmental organizations. Example of use of b2b, b2g, and b2c. The most common non-merchant e-commerce companies are auctions and clearinghouses.