Finding A Platform For eCommerce

Every user of Windows NTS has the technical resources to develop electronic commerce applications accessible to Web subscribers.

To enable electronic commerce solutions to develop rationally, it has been established that a common operating medium is required. To provide a continuum from the smallest application environments to the largest, those solutions should be developed to run either on a common physical platform or one of a number of mutually-compatible platforms. It would follow that the 'operating medium' is closely aligned to a computer operating system which itself has to run across a broad spectrum of hardware.

In practice, most electronic commerce solutions have to be scalable to run both on entry-level client platforms and the most substantial host environments. It might follow, therefore, that one contender for the mantle is Microsoft Windows NT which has been adopted for use on progressively more powerful hardware platforms.