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Foil 19 Enterprise Portal Building Tools I

From Portals for Web Based Education and Training Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


iPlanet and Netscape Custom Netcenter. This supports fixed and personalized channels which can be repositioned. Can add Corporate banners etc. Feeds can be XML or HTML. See http://www.iplanet.com/products/portal_svcs/cnc_corp/index.html
Excite or Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com is currently relatively primitive portal technology but no doubt this will be enhanced.
Desktop.com: http://www.Desktop.com currently has only a Beta version of the service, which isonly available for the PC.
  • You can design your own web-based Desktop and manage everything you are accustomed to using on the web.
  • The graphical interface of Desktop is very similar to the one used on PC. The Desktop has three components: pull-down menu bar, desktop area and utility bar.
http://www.dreamriver.com/ Unclear at present



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