Randy VandenBrink, HP's manager of EDI services EDI and the Net: A profitable partnering Electronic data interchange used to mean expensive value-added networks. Not anymore. Today, Web technology lets you do EDI transactions over the Net, so even small companies can play. By Michael Jay Tucker Is corporate America ready for e-commerce? Not quite. Cost, security issues, and lack of mature software are major concerns. Still, many IS managers are plowing full-steam ahead. By Alden Hayashi Boeing Commercial Airplane Group implements a new Web-based system E-commerce: Wired for profits Electronic commerce is more than just paperless invoices. Thanks to the Internet, e-commerce can help you establish closer relationships with a larger group of potential partners, suppliers, and customers. By Sarah E. Varney & Vance McCarthy The new money: Transactions pour across the Web Transaction processing used to be confined comfortably to the glass house. Today, transactions are stretched from the mainframe clear to the customer's desk. By Eva Freeman CommerceNet DEC/EDI Users Group EDI Meets the Internet, Walter Houser, Department of Veterans Affairs EDI InfoNet, Washington Publishing Co. Electronic Commerce World Institute Center for Electronic Commerce EDI Group Roger Clarke's Electronic Commerce Home Page Electronic Commerce Canada EDI-GYM The Law of Electronic Commerce, Benjamin Wright EDiSTONE Books, David Robert Lambert Making Electronic Commerce Work, IBM National Electronic Commerce Resource Center Electronic Commerce Resource Guide, Premenos TRUSTe Internet & Electronic Commerce Law,Gordon & Glickson P.C. VISA SET page MasterCard SET page Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, Whitehouse EC page

Web servers tuned for e-commerce All commerce-oriented servers look the same until you have to use them to exchange goods and dollars. If you don't want to be fooled when you shop for such a server, know in advance how it must work. By Michael Jay Tucker Making the Internet safe for e-commerce Microsoft and Sun discuss Net security. Web security: How much is enough? A group of Fortune 500 companies has developed a road map to help you find a balance between security and performance. By Vance McCarthy Who's guarding the till at the CyberMall? Credit cards, EDI, secure Web browsers - you're faced with a hodgepodge of options when trying to build secure electronic commerce systems. By Larry Marion How to move e-cash around the Internet The concept of using a third-party server to prepare credit card transactions is only one of several ways to move e-cash around the Internet. Here are other ways. By Eva Freeman IBM jumps into e-commerce IBM is serious about selling new S/390 mainframes to host Web sites. For interactive e-commerce apps, its Big Iron story makes sense. By Sarah Varney Wholesale success on the Web There's not much retail action on the Internet yet, but business-to-business commerce is starting to take off. By Peter Cassidy DATAMATION CLASSICS The World Wide Web: Internet Boomtown? The Internet's World Wide Web is still an experimental technology, untested for heavy duty on-line commercial use. Yet thousands of companies are rushing to start doing business electronically on the Web anyway. By J. William Semich

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