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Foil 9 Portals -- Continued

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 http://www.npac.syr.edu/restricted/ is a portal to NPAC internal information
2 http://www.ibm.com is the external portal to IBM for customers. There will also be an internal portal for IBM employees used to "run the company"
3 http://www.amazon.com is a portal to books (and more)
4 Kodak is interested in portals to family memorabilia
5 More generally a portal is a web entrance to a set of resources and consists of a mix of information, computer simulations and various services
6 For businesses portals generalize the concept of a a company Intranet and encompass domain of IBM main frames, Lotus Notes etc.
7 For computing, portals are called Problem Solving Environments

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