1. Chapter 1 Introduction to Ecommerce What is E-Commerce? Microsoft Technologies for E- Commerce. What is an ASP Page. Objectives :

2. Definition: E-commerce refers to the process of buying or selling a product or service over an electronic network. Popular medium is internet. Three types of business transaction/E-Commerce: 1.B-to-C Ex: Amazon.com 2.B-to-B Ex: Cisco Systems. 3.C-to-C Ex: eBay.com

3. Microsoft Technologies for E-Commerce Microsoft Web Server. Personal Web Server. Internet Information server. Microsoft Database. MS Access. MS SQL Server. Microsoft Visual InterDev.

4. PWS Works with Win 95, 98 or NT Workstation. Used to Host a very low traffic Web Site. Prototyping a Website before transferring the content of website to IIS. Isn’t appropriate for hosting a live site on the internet. It cannot handle many concurrent users.

5. IIS Isn’t compatible with Win 95 or 98. Need to use it with Win NT server/2000 server. It is a part of both O/S. Supports hundreds/thousands of concurrent users. Largest Web site on the internet use IIS.

6. MS Access Is a part of MS-Office family. Is a desktop DB & not Client/Server DB. Used: Prototyping a website. Creating low traffic website. Cannot support more than 30 concurrent users. Can be upgraded to MS SQL server DB using MS tool called upsizing.

7. MS SQL Server DB Can scale to support thousands of concurrent users and terabyte sized DB. Can support online store of any size. Web site using this are Buy.com, 1-800- flowers.com. Three Versions of SQL Server 7.0: SQL Server Desktop SQL Server Standard Edition. SQL Server Enterprise Edition.

8. Microsoft Visual InterDev. Is development environment for building web site. A very fancy text editor that allows to create or modify web pages on a remote or local server. Used to write both Asp & HTML page. Is tightly integrated with MS SQL Server which can be used to create and modify Db tables. Works with any ODBC or OLE DB compliment DB. Also include several debugging tools.

9. ASP Page Is a file located on web server with an extension.ASP. Is normal HTML page that contains script. The ASP page is processed by web server before giving to browser. It includes server side scripts like Jscript/Perl Script/VB Script and objects & Components.

10. Objects and Components Something that has a method, properties & collections. Method means action taken by an object. Properties can be read/set to specify the state of the component. Collections are sets of key and value pairs related to component. Includes 2 types of components Built-in objects & Installable components.

11. Six Built-in Objects Application Object. ObjectContext Object. Request Object Response Object Server Object Session Object.

12. Installable components Ad Rotator Component. Browser capabilities Component. Content Linking Component. File Access Component

13. Others ActiveX Data objects ODBC OLE DB Compliment DB Ex: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2 and Ingres database.