aps the biggest user of the net is business.Networks now link manufacturers with assembly plants, designers with factories, software engineers with hardware vendors, suppliers with retailers, retailers with customers and so on.Customers can order anything from airline tickets to winter clothing online and do their own banking and bill paying electronically.These trends open opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs around the world. For customers, they offer more choice and lower prices because there is no overhead cost for sales clerks and order takers.Increasingly companies that want to compete on price will have to work smarter to reduce costs and respond to market changes, while others will have to rethink how to add value to attract customers. High levels of customer service and individualized attention are likely to become more important.More than half the computers in U.S. offices are linked to local area networks or LANs. Increasingly, businesses are also linking into the Internet to reach counterparts in other organizations, specialized databases, and potential customers. Each month, some2,000 businesses join the more than 20,000 that have already set up virtual shop on the Internet.There is a massive amount of revenue being generated on the Internet and projections show that it will grow even more in the future.Lets take a look at this chart.Telecommunications networks are creating a Global Information Workforce. As you can see the growth of the Internet and the revenue that it creates has led to an explosion in Information Technology worker jobs.Some of the fields associated with Information Technology are: Software Engineers, Web Developer, PC Applications Specialists, Consultants, Data Management, Systems Analysts, plus many more related fields. The demand for Information Technology workers and the salaries that they provide are quite favorable. Lets take a look at this chart for an illustration of salary trends in this in...
