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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Nov 7 10:56:08 1995
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:47:12 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
11-7-95. W$J, Page One lead:
"The 'Intranet'. Internet Software Poses Big Threat to
Notes, IBM's Stake in Lotus."
Hundreds of firms are achieving similar groupware
linkups with simpler, cheaper systems on the World Wide
Web. Dubbed "Intranets," these private networks combine
text, graphics and even video to distribute news, answer
employee questions, update personnel records and connect
far-flung workers. The Intranets link a total of about
15 million workers. These private networks are far
different from what most Internet fans see -- the public
"home pages." These setups reside on company-controlled
servers shielded from the public Web by a security
"firewall."
The Web has an "open" design that all programming
developers can use in common, as opposed to the "closed"
and proprietary designs of Lotus Notes, Novell's
Groupwise and Microsoft's Exchange. That lets Intranets
accept traffic from incompampatible computers more
readily, making it easier for customers and suppliers to
tap in, and for users to draw data from old mainframes
and minicomputers.
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