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Electronic Commerce (Networking Series) Review by J. Jenkins
Not worth the purchase price - that's for sure...
The e-commerce industry is a fast moving industry and this book just doesn't seem to be able to keep up.
While reading this book, I kept thinking to myself - "wow, that is really old..." the authors kept discussing old strategies... and old technologies... I guess Microsoft's .NET technologies (ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, etc.) were just too new to be included by the time of re-print. I think not, .NET was first introduced in early 2000 this is a 2004 copyrighted book.
To continue that thought, this book is definitely slanted away from any Microsoft technologies comments like "Unfortunately, the fate of ODBC is completely under the control of Microsoft" (P.189) is mis-guided and ill informed statement.
Chapter two - Types of e-Commerce Technology, reads like a datasheet/white paper for IBM white paper for IBM.
This book also misses the mark in providing a framework for setting up a complete e-commerce and/or e-business system. You get bits and pieces, but there is no coordinating highlevel framework or strategy to use.
I am not saying there is no value to the book... For me, the bottom line is the age of the content - if a good amount of the content is too old, is it worth the money?
I don't think so...