电子商务引起人们广泛关注,不过是近期的事情。迄今,人们对电子商务还没有一个统一的规范认识,商家(电子商务的主要推动者)出于各自的商业目的,各执一词。简单地说,电子商务是指整个贸易活动电子化。即利用Internet技术,将企业,供应商以及其他商业和贸易所需环节连接到现有的信息技术系统上,从专用Internet到共享Intranet,再到公共Internet,以前所未有的方式,将商业活动纳入网上,彻底改变现有的业务作业方式和手段,从而实现充分利用有限资源、缩短商业环节和周期,提高营运效率,降低成本,提高用户服务质量的目 E-commerce has attracted a lot of attention, but it is a recent thing. So far, people do not have a unified normative understanding of e-commerce. Merchants (the main motivators of e-commerce) have their own business goals and they have adopted their own words. Simply put, e-commerce refers to the entire electronic trading activity. That is, using Internet technology to connect companies, suppliers, and other business and trade links to existing information technology systems, from private Internet to shared Intranet to public Internet, integrating business activities into the Internet in an unprecedented manner. , Completely change the existing methods and means of business operations, so as to achieve the goal of making full use of limited resources, shortening business links and cycles, improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and improving user service quality.