联机产品样本为供货商和用户提供更多好处

Online product catalogues are more useful for both suppliers and customers

已经在市场上采用的脱机电子产品样本正在进一步发展成为联机产品样本，这样，它为供货商和用户提供了更多好处。其基础是分布式的多媒体信息系统环球网（ＷＷＷ），它使迅速地和低成本地存取当前的产品信息成为可能。此外，广泛的增值服务（计算，配置等等）实现了一体化，这在过去是无法做到的。

Electronic offline catalogues have been on the market for some time now. The paper examines the development of online product catalogues as the next logical step,demonstrating that it offers increased advantages for both suppliers and customers. Developing online product catalogues based on the WWW as a distributed hyperm edia information system ensures fast and inexpensive access to up to date product information and permits integration of additional services such as extensive calculations and complex xonfiguration tasks.