sgg24 - 12:47 am on Sep 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Wow! I had not expected such a tumultuous response to what I thought was a simple question. Thanks Raymond for giving the kind of answer I was looking for.

LifeinAsia, your answer was very illuminating, because it shows the depth and breadth of ecommerce.

Initially I had thought that ecommerce was anything that was done through a shopping cart. Those figures from Raymond are probably (I'm guessing) calculated along those lines. Surely a definition of ecommerce is necessary to have a meaningful discussion about it.

So my proposal is to use the shopping cart definition.

If you disagree, feel free to respond, but keep it real.