Chapter 6b. How Intranet Webs Work
The heart of any intranet is the World Wide Web. In many instances a large part of the reason that an intranet was created in the first place is that the Web makes it easy to publish company-wide...
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Intranets are different from the Internet because they are private networks, set off from the rest of the world by firewalls. They also differ in that they often connect disparate corporate networks....
View ArticleChapter 9. How Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Works
In general, Web software is not particularly database friendly-it often happens that valuable corporate information is not always accessible to many people who need it. In the earliest days of the Web,...
View ArticleChapter 15. How Proxy Servers Work
There are certain risks associated with allowing people from inside an intranet to directly contact Internet servers and resources. An intranet user might obtain a file from the Internet that could...
View ArticleChapter 28. Using Web-to-Database Query Tools
The most important information on an intranet typically is housed in databases. These databases can be on a single site, although typically, they can be found all across an entire intranet. Most of...
View ArticleChapter 29. How Intranets Can Cut the Corporate Paper Trail
The typical corporation generates mounds and mounds of paper every day-potentially many tons a year. This is bad for the environment, costly for the corporation, and unnecessarily time-consuming...
View ArticleChapter 30. Incorporating Legacy Systems and Data into an Intranet
It’s rare that an intranet has been built entirely from scratch. Intranet designers usually don’t have the luxury of creating a logical computing architecture. Instead, they have to take into account...
View ArticleChapter 31d. Business-to-Business Transactions Using Intranets
Intranets can communicate with one another through the public Internet, instead of by using private leased lines. Leasing private lines can be very expensive, while using the Internet is inexpensive....
View ArticleChapter 35b. Disseminating Corporate News and Documents via an Intranet
It’s often difficult for people within a corporation to keep abreast of company news. Using a variety of technologies, intranets can broadcast and make available the most up-do-date corporate news....
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Scare The Hell Out Of iPhone Users
I was talking to some people today and came up with a scenario that I think is a real issue, one that would be difficult for Apple to stop. Here is a scenario: A fun game is released to the iPhone App...
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