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10.1: Electronic Commerce Technology
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Chapter Two deals with the technology that underlies electronic commerce. Specifically, we discuss the methods that computers use to communicate with each other. We compare and contrast: the Internet (which is global in nature and has the potential to communicate with multiple stakeholder groups); the intranet (which focuses on internal communications within the organization–such as communication with employees); the extranet (which concentrates on exchanges with a specific business partner).