discussion questions

1)discuss why you believe e commerce is important in today's business world?
-many of the business use online outlets, and many businesses use Internet solely for their business. also many of the companies run out of many countries all over the world, Internet has made it easier to connect and easier to expand your business, and to compete with today's expanding market, its almost a must to use Internet to promote your business.

3) can you identify opportunities for using extranet discuss how your school can form a business alliance with its suppliers how could it create a competitive advantage?
-there are many advantages to using extranet, epically as a school. you can connect to your supplier. and anyone who uses technology has advantages over other schools.

6)how important is privacy: would you pay extra for an item you purchased in return for a guarantee to not sell info on your purchase to anyone?
-privacy is very important, especially to people who have lots of private information. i would pay extra if the purchase is large. but if its stuff like name and address, most people have access to that anyways because its on the Internet.