Any businessperson can tell you that doing business is more than just selling consumer goods. It covers the entire panoply of interactions with suppliers, distributors, investors,staff,as well as customers-all of the entities that have a stake in the performance of the company. This book is about doing electronic business (or e-business),and a new initiative called Electronic Business XML (ebxml),designed to extend the benefits of e-business and covering the entire potential spectrum of these interactions-to a much wider audience than ever before.