Service and Intellectual/Knowledge Trading E-Business Model

Traditional e-business focuses on physical products trading, and although there are transactions of the so called "virtual products", its scope is limited to "downloadable files" or game card points. But in offline market, services & intellectual works forms an important part in all commercial fields. By reconstructing the concept of "intangible product" in e-business context, this paper discusses the definition of service & intellectual/knowledge product, gives a full description on their e-business workflow; and based on the three layered open source J2EE architecture, implements a fully functional intangible product trading platform - IntelServ.com, with which service transactions can by carried out via a variety of models like B2C, C2C, bidding, auction, etc. This system can be deployed on a low cost Linux server, giving the company that hosts this project an economical startup.