1 | Portals to X are essentially the name for an Object Web system where it is designed to address a particular application X |
2 | Portal to the world is http://www.yahoo.com/ or http://my.netscape.com/ |
3 | Portal to latest news is http://www.cnn.com |
4 | Portal to computational chemistry is http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/PSEactivities/CCM.html |
5 | Portal to stock trading is http://quote.yahoo.com/ |
6 | 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" |
7 | Kodak is interested in portals to family memorabilia |
8 | 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 |
9 | For businesses portals generalize the concept of a a company Intranet and encompass domain of IBM main frames, Lotus Notes etc. |
10 | For computing, portals are called Problem Solving Environments |