The following schematic conclusions can be drawn: 

• The Internet is the net of nets, a continous connection between different networks with different functions, which are perfectly able to communicate between themselves, and is changing our way of communicating, working, enjoying ourselves and making business. In short, it is bringing us toward the Information Society. 
• The Information Society is already present in our society, somehow, but it has not radically transformed it yet. As all the changes, it brings enormous difficulties but also huge benefits. The Internet, in the economic sector, is the instrument that could allow access to these advantages and opportunities, but at the moment it does not seem to have that commercial success that we could expect and it could bring. 
• The relations and the use of the Internet with the SMEs is not clear: a lot depends on the economic sector which the firm belongs to, on the dimensions and so on; there is a distinct lack of information on the possibilities offered by new technologies and often a no knowledge of the possibilities of the instruments already bought by the firm. Putting it simply, there is a lack of an open mentality and understanding of new innovations. 
• The impact of the Internet on SMEs is still very small, but firms are becoming more and more interested in understanding the Net, thanks to new concepts and work solutions such as, for instance, the Intranets. 
• Firms do not want to invest too much in new technologies, and they usually prefer to use informative systems that are safe and well known rather than those of the latest innovations. 
• The European Community is reacting to this change in a very active and quick manner, by organising Fora, questioning several expert groups, publishing Green and White Books, opening five servers of reference and trying to ease the path for the forthcoming of the Information Society and to be in this manner in constant competition with the United States and Japan; for instance the Community adopted the liberalization of the telecommunication market in 1998. Even the G7 is engaged in the same manner, because it recognises the importance and the necessity of both allowing and leading the social changes we are living through at this moment.