Setting up a web store

Hi forum,

maybe this is off topic and maybe it's a naive question, sorry in advance for that.

A friend of mine wants to set up and online business and would like to create a website where people can order products. It's a _small_ business (two people), O (5000$) capital.

Having had no exposure to "real world" business, I was wondering if there's something which allows to enter the merchandise in a database, which then displays on the website, you get the orders somehow, administrate your client database, etc.

I browsed the Sun pages a bit, but got a bit swamped in "leveraging synergies", "reduce time to market" and "vertically integrate customer satisfaction".

Any hints?

Thanks, Peter.

[740 byte] By [niessepe] at [2007-11-26 6:39:32]