E-BusinessAC omparison of the Dell and Compaq Websites

E-Business



A comparison of the Websites for
Dell and Compaq Computers
Introduction

e-Business: The conduct of business with the assistance of telecommunications equipment and the Internet

e-Commerce: The conduct of commerce: transactions having the objective of supplying commodities, goods and services on the Internet.

I believe the terms e-Commerce and IBM’s coined term e-Business are interchangeable and mean essentially the same thing. These definitions I believe, will allow the most effective way of analyzing the two business modules I have chosen for this paper.

The two business modules are websites that offer similar products and services namely computers, these sites are:

Dell computers: http://www.euro.dell.com/countries/uk/enu/gen/default.htm
Hewlett Packard (HP): http://www.hp.com/country/uk/eng/welcome.html

The Market

Marketers need to promote what customers want. However what the customer considers of value from their purchase is the benef...