A database driven web application with a workflow logic where all steps are triggered by parameterized events and the only hard coding is the atoms (ie tags)

That is hopefully the future. With these kind of systems we get open systems that is configurable to eternity and that adapt rendering of interface depending on client.

It should of course decide where to render, server or client or both and degrade gracefully.

One upside is the complex structures it could support and one downside is administration

Another upside is that new datatypes can be added and yet another downside is that support of different generations of data can be hard if validation of datastructures against old data is not done properly.

One other way to go is to send all data as XML, map these files with Altova Mapforce or Biztalk and use the XSL file to render on server or client and use AJAX to trigger or take care of interaction on client. A lot easier and with technique available yesterday

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Make systems degrade gracefully when developing them, the technique is available so its just about implementing.

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B2B, trade of products or services, between a manufacturer and a wholesale company often consists of big transactions as opposed to B2C which often consists of small transactions. 

The manufacturer is the supplier and the wholesale company is the customer in this case.

Being a supplier in this kind of B2B chain could be quite complex since there could be raw materials involved where these are put together in a production chain. Refined and if it is a producing organisation, the raw material is the product that somehow will be shipped to the customer who in his turn will refine or trade the product one step further.

The customer is in his turn often a supplier but could as well be performing directly against end customers.

Trading documents or information between the organisation is often sent through fax or some kind of integration message between procurement systems or directly between ERP systems.

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