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Foil 7 So What is a Portal?

From Integration of Web and Distributed Object Technologies in a New Generation of Grande Programming Environments PDPTA Las Vegas -- June 28 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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

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