Chapter 1. Introduction
It is not surprising that one of the most quoted business writers today is Charles Darwin. In the field of business-to-business e-commerce and, most recently, mobile commerce, evolution is not simply a metaphor; it is a reality. Many businesses have failed to meet expectations or simply failed because they could not adapt their existing products and services to a new, more dynamic Internet environment. As IT departments are viewed more and more favorably as business differentiators, compared with cost-of-sales, it behooves business application developers to turn current IT assets into collections of Web services that take full advantage of the speed, flexibility, and instant global reach of the Internet.
A number of obstacles ...
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