E-BUSINESS AND E-COMMERCE (3)
- Realize one must have adequate E Business Infrastructure
- Affects the quality of service of its users
- Speed, reliability, responsiveness
- This means maximizing the uses of Hardware, Network, and Software
- Some key decisions would be deciding whether to manage these aspects internally or outsource them
- Today’s class will be about Jargons!
- Internet is simply a communications enabler
- Between two connected computers
- It is client / server
- Via ISP.. To another ISP… To a Backbone (Superhighways)
- Look at the history
- Developed for the DOD
- Must be reliable … packets and routes
- Slow acceptance, but it took off fast!
