Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade The Rose Garden painting
Every day it becomes more clear that the Net is taking its place alongside the other great transformational technologies.""Certainly the Net is a powerful medium for communication. But even more important, it is a vocational medium -- a place where real work gets done, real competitive advantage is gained, and real growth is generated.That's because the Net has emerged as a powerful means for parties of every type to conduct transactions of every type: transactions among employees inside an enterprise; among trading partners in a supply chain; and networked transactions that transform the way educators teach students, physicians treat patients, and the way governments deliver services to citizens.This is what we call 'e-business'. It's a term we coined to describe all of the ways individuals and institutions will derive value from the Net... as well as our strategic direction in the emerging networked economy."Lou GerstnerChairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM