Erik Wilde and Andreas Steiner (2004) in their article try to demonstrate that e-commerce technologies are in many ways comparable to computer networking, and show that convincing businesses to adopt e- commerce technologies could be made easier by showing them that e-commerce is basically computer networking taken to another level. The authors also believe that using these metaphors will make it easier to talk about e-commerce technologies, to reuse existing knowledge about networking architectures on this new level, and to identify the areas where additional work needs to be done. The authors also discussed about the metaphors that they are using in their comparison of e-commerce infrastructures and traditional computer networking. They then continue in by applying these metaphors to e-commerce infrastructures and investigate the overall picture as well as some case studies. The limitation of this article is that the authors of this article discussed more about networking rather than the relationship between networking and e-commerce.
Lawrence J. Radecki and John Wenninger (1999) describe in their article how electronic billing and payment systems work and discuss the factors that will determine whether high volume billers and their customers are likely to benefit sufficiently to join in large numbers. The authors begin by estimating the size of the market for processing recurring bills. They then examine how information exchanges and money flows under the current system of bill presentment and payment will change with the move to electronic systems, and consider who stands to gain if this payment innovation becomes popular. Finally, they look at some of the obstacles that may delay the adoption of e-billing.