As more vendors provide packaged software solutions for electronic commerce, such as those you learned about in Chapter 9, companies need information systems staff that can install and maintain the software. Most large businesses have applications specialists who maintain accounting, human resources, and logistics software. Similarly, electronic com¬merce sites that buy software to handle catalogs, payment processing, and other features need applications specialists to maintain the software. Although the installation of these software packages can be outsourced, most companies prefer to train internal staff to serve in this function when the site becomes operational.
Web sites have evolved from static HTML to more complex designs built with dynamic Web page generation technologies and XML data integration. As Web sites have become more complicated, the need for Web programmers, who design and write the underlying code for dynamic database-driven Web pages, has increased. Good Web programmers understand several different dynamic Web page generation technologies and are highly