Collaboration and Portals
We are discussing Web-based education or portals to a virtual university and we also build portals to computing
Merrill Lynch predicts that Enterprise Information portal market will be $15B by 2002
Portals are built as a customizableset of XML components ( e.g. Display a thumbnail of the next web-page in lecture or run a Particular Program )
Portals always support “asynchronous collaboration” but we can also built synchronous capability by extending Shared Web Page in our system Tango Interactive using XML to define nature of collaboration