This article present a report on conceptual aspects of the E-commerce Industry which is aimed at classifying structures for providing products and services in the electronic marketplace. It is suggested that firms, which strive to compete successfully in e-commerce, must understand the structure of the e-commerce industry and roles of its many and varied players. A useful classification scheme for e-commerce providers of the products and services is also required. The article describes that the industry is comprised of a variety of products and services, including hardware, software and networking components. Hardware comprises routers, firewalls, digital switches, servers, and workstations; Software consists HTML editors, Java development environments, electronic data interchange applications, network user interfaces, browsers, groupware, middleware, and so forth; whereas the Network elements are wireless, cable, and satellite networks, and Web-based telephony and other transmission network services. INSET: Classifying E-commerce.