http://www.npac.syr.edu/restricted/ is a portal to NPAC internal information |
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" |
http://www.amazon.com is a portal to books (and more) |
Kodak is interested in portals to family memorabilia |
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 |
For businesses portals generalize the concept of a a company Intranet and encompass domain of IBM main frames, Lotus Notes etc. |
For computing, portals are called Problem Solving Environments |