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First we must understand the differences of each network and what e-commerce is. The Internet is a worldwide collection of millions of computers and networks of all sizes. The term Internet is derived from the term Internetworking, which means connecting networks. There are many services which are available through the Internet. The intranet is a network within an organization that uses Internet protocols and technologies for collecting, storing, and disseminating useful information that supports business activities. The difference between these two are that the Internet is a public network, and the intranet is a private network, but both are networks. The extranet is a secure network that uses the Internet and web technologies to connect intranets of business so communication between organization or between consumer is possible. The extranets are considered a type of interorganizational system. The extranet offers an organization the same benefits as an intranet, but it provides other advantages. What e-commerce does is it buys and sells goods and services over the Internet. E-commerce builds on traditional commerce by adding the flexibility that networks offer and the availability of the Internet. The Internet helps e-commerce to collaborate with other companies, communicate with business partners, gather business intelligence on customers and competitors, provide customer service, make software updates and patches available, offer vendor support. The business I work for uses the Internet to send out prices in order to attract new business for propane, or to sign up for winter lock in prices. It is still a little old fashion in some ways because they will still send out post cards in new area's for different prices, but mostly they use the Internet in order to gain a better prospective on the customers that are using propane.
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