Basic HTML version of Foils prepared June 11 99
| Portal to NPAC is http://www.npac.syr.edu |
| Portal to the world is http://www.yahoo.com/ or http://my.netscape.com/ |
| http://www.amazon.com is a portal to books (and more) |
| Portal to computational chemistry is http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/PSEactivities/CCM.html |
| Portal to stock trading is http://quote.yahoo.com/ |
| 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" |
| 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 |