To: NYBellBoy who wrote (1919 ) 7/24/1998 1:57:00 PM From: sammaster Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 15313
A critical mass of enabling technologies and market conditions is satisfying pent-up demand for a more dynamic way of linking people and information. Nearly a third of the Internet's 30 million users are accessing the World Wide Web. Web server software products, which deliver content to individuals (or clients), number more than 120,000 as of the end of 1995 (International Data Corporation), up from 130 in 1993. The combined corporate Internet and Intranet market will jump from $12 billion in 1995 to $208 billion by the year 2000, estimates Input, a research firm in Mountain View, California. In fact, two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies have an Intranet, according to Forrester Research (July 1996). With these enablers complementing existing systems infrastructures, organizations are finding that an Intranet provides a way for people to easily retrieve the information they need, when they need it. Reflecting the shift in web application development from the external network to within the enterprise, Netscape Communications Corporation reports that more than 50 percent of its web server sales are earmarked for corporate Intranet use. Predictions for Intranet growth have sprung from an examination of current corporate needs and market demands. Organizations of all sizes are facing major communication challenges, and in today's fast-moving, competitive environment, quick and easy access to departmental, corporate, and customer information is essential. By the turn of the century, Intranet servers will outsell Internet servers 4.6 million to 440,000, according to IDC. More than connecting employees and business partners to vital corporate data, Intranets let companies speed information and software to employees and business partners. looks like FNTN is going to have a hard time keeping up with demand. they have got the hardware and the software for their own financial intranet and they are ready to launch... and now that they have built a massive intranet for themselves they are ready to use their expertise to help others build their own. samir