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Foil 19 Enterprise Portal Building Tools I

From Portals for Web Based Education and Training Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 iPlanet and Netscape Custom Netcenter. This supports fixed and personalized channels which can be repositioned. Can add Corporate banners etc. Feeds can be XML or HTML. See http://www.iplanet.com/products/portal_svcs/cnc_corp/index.html
2 Excite or Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com is currently relatively primitive portal technology but no doubt this will be enhanced.
3 Desktop.com: http://www.Desktop.com currently has only a Beta version of the service, which isonly available for the PC.
  • You can design your own web-based Desktop and manage everything you are accustomed to using on the web.
  • The graphical interface of Desktop is very similar to the one used on PC. The Desktop has three components: pull-down menu bar, desktop area and utility bar.
4 http://www.dreamriver.com/ Unclear at present

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