This book is a brief description of the impact of the Internet on Businesses of all kind. It starts with b2b e-business success stories like Cisco, FedEx and Ingram Micro whose business volumes on the web is several hundred fold greater than more popular b2c companies like Amazon.Com and Yahoo !. The most important factor to succeed in e-business starts with the right vision of the top management and the book provides a simple and effective framework that integrates business and technology drivers with the e-business strategy.

"Digital Transformation" as defined by KPMG is not just the conversion of text, images, voice and video into digital form but also involves the changes in the business processes associated with them. Once the vision and strategy are in place it is important to move fast and get the "first mover advantage" since in the new economy it is the first movers who walk away with all the marbles.

One chapter each is devoted to b2b and b2c challenges and in each case the business model is brought out well.

The authors then borrow the concept of " disruptive technology" - the term coined by Prof Clayton Christensen in his book " The innovators dilemma". The web as a disruptive technology and what this means to diverse industries - Travel, Broking, Automobiles is quite interesting. In fact I have started reading " Innovator's Dilemma" once again.

The final chapter is devoted to future trends ( and threats !).

An excellent summary of what it means to be transformed- Digitally, in just about 120 pages.

Patel & McCarthy have written a compelling book that is short yet filled with valuable information. As the race to ecommerce gets white hot, the subjects of this book are being discussed and debated in board rooms, via e-mail, during kids sporting events and even during dinner. My favorite chapter was "Do It In-House or Spin It Off?" valuable for those trying to catch up. A one sitting read that you will go back to again and again.

Ever notice how the really good teachers (the ones with the deepest subject knowledge) are also those who impart their wisdom the most succinctly and simply?

This is what Patel and McCarthy have done with Digital Transformation, a thoughtful, pragmatic discussion of what being an eBusiness really means.

The book is short enough that most folks could polish it off on a five hour flight - a welcome departure from the blathery eBiz treatises that occupy most bookstore shelf space (whose main aim seems to be the self-aggrandisement of the author).

In Digital Transformation, Patel and McCarthy underscore that eBusiness is less about the ubiquitous dot com appendage and its accessories than it is about using technology to redefine a company's business strategy and means of delivering on it.

The discourse is peppered with interesting commentary from such eBusiness mavericks as John Chambers (Cisco), Vint Cerf, Priceline CEO Dan Schulman and Dave Wetherell of CMGI fame.

Now, if only other business books could be as simple and relevant, there'd be more shady trees under which to read them.

You would think that a book about JDBC programming would show you how to program using JDBC. Well, in this case, you would be absolutely wrong. It (very poorly) talks about what JDBC is, what SQL is, what a JDBC driver is, but IT NEVER TALKS ABOUT JDBC PROGRAMMING!!!! IT NEVER TELLS YOU HOW TO USE ANY OF THE JDBC CLASSES TO ACTUALLY PROGRAM SOMETHING THAT USES JDBC. It's like driving your wife to the hospital to give birth, but forgetting your wife. And remember, everything it talks about is poorly written.

I got the 2nd edition after using the middleware chapter of the 1st edition. They repeat the mistakes of the first! On page 13, it states that a combination of ROWS can be used to compose a primary key. It should read a combination of COLUMNS! Half of the book is just a repeat of the 1st edition, word for word! Very little proofreading went into this book. Commented out debugging aids are left in the code.

I found this book to be really good and it gives a great overview of Java programming with JDBC. This book really has a lot of condensed material, and quickly covers a lot of areas. I was able to use the first application right off the bat to connect to a PostgreSQL database and do some simple queries. There is a lot to RDBMS accessed through JDBC, so I would suggest that readers prepare to review web servers, TCP/IP ports and client web browser java security problems. Make sure to get a good reference book for SQL, it will be a good investment for the future. The reader should also have a good grasp of programming with java and be ready to sit in the driver's seat. This book gets my thumb of approval.

If you consider 10-day, 20-day and 40-day Donchian channel breakouts as 3 "different" systems, then yes, this book offers ~80 "different" systems. What peeved me was the fact that there were only 30 or so unique systems in the book. The other 50 were variations on the same theme. Half the book deals with various sorts of funky moving averages... not interesting, and not very useful. Also, the readability is extremely poor. It's a good buy at $15, but definitely not worth $50.

The book gives the formulas for over 70 trading systems to be put into your computer. If that is what you are looking for then the book is great. Myself,I was looking for more how to stuff then math formulas of trading systems. I wanted to know how the systems worked and to have an explaination for them. The book does not do this. Again it gives you the formulas for some trading systems. For me that was way over my head considering I dont have a clue in how to program that stuff into my computer. So again it depends what your looking for.

in his first book, mr. patel tried to write something he obviously knew nothing about. which only proved he is destined for life on the streets. and that he smells.

I don't know where to begin. I actually think I became dumber from reading this waste of toner. Come to think of it, I learned more about direct access online trading from a 30 cent coupon for Kool-Aid. It was Great Bluedini by the way. I feel bad for anyone who spent their hard-earned money on this book. Not even hard-earned, even money you found in an old pair of pants.

I think this book is great, easy to understand, well written, I highly recommend it!

An extreme disappointment. While the subject deserves attention, this book contains only a few black and white photographs, and minimal color photos, the latter from only three to four movies! Written in sophmoric, academic tones, page after page of un-interesting text failed to give any insight whatsoever into an art form that populates more movie marquees than any other place in the world.
And for the over-the-top price, you could probably afford a trip to India to evaluate the topic yourself!