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What is Multi-tier architecture

Chapter 34
Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
is the architecture of an application that has at least three layers separated from each other. Each layer interacts with only the layer directly above or below it, and has specific functions to do.
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E-Commerce Business Models: Part 1
Khaled Ahmed Nagaty (The British University in Egypt, Egypt)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch034
Abstract
In this article the author explained the classes of e-commerce business models and their advantages and disadvantages. He discussed the important issues and problems facing e-commerce web sites and how to build a successful e-commerce Web site using techniques of security, privacy and authentication, guidelines of maintenance, collecting user’s information for personalization, using multi-tier architecture to achieve high performance and high availability.
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