Building Internet Business : The Essential Sourcebook for Internet Business Designers

Being commercially successful on the World Wide Web takes more than a knowledge of HTML. Now, with Building Successful Internet Businesses , there's finally a way to develop or improve your Internet business acumen -- whether your business is already on the Net or you're only at the concept stage. Professional Internet consultants David Elderbrock and Nitin Borwankar offer here invaluable insights and experience gained in helping businesses ranging from publishing to online sales, from communication systems to electronic commerce. Whether you're a sole proprietor just starting out or a manager wishing to get beyond the hype and technology to draw up a coherent business plan, you'll find the advice and counsel you need in Building Successful Internet Businesses .

State-of-the-art software helps you grow your business better, faster, and smarter

• NeXT WebObjects -- build a virtual showroom, store, or other interactive Web site with prebuilt, reusable components.
• Allaire's Cold Fusion -- Create a variety of applications integrating relational databases with the Web using this Web Application Development platform for Windows NT and 95.
• Sybase web.sql -- Generate personalized promotional and customer service materials with this middleware for interfacing Sybase databases to the Web.
• Perl 5 -- The latest version of this powerful and popular interpreted scripting language.
• Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.0 -- Public domain scripting language plus graphical user interface, compiles for all major Unix platforms.
• SATAN 1.1 -- Network security tool.
• Apache -- Popular public domain Web server.
• Mini SQL 1.0 -- "Lightweight" relational database appropriate for use in relatively simple database applications.

Software requires CD-ROM drive, 386 or higher PC running Windows 95 or NT or Linux 1.2 or higher (16MB RAM), Unix workstation running Solaris 2.3 or higher (32MB RAM).