To: Hal Campbell who wrote (8127 ) 5/5/1999 9:35:00 PM From: flickerful Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17679
that e commerce may perhaps be the most important profit source on the internet is what keeps resounding in my head...taking a cue from ed and revisiting reiter as our key to e commerce profitability led me to an old chriss elsass post...[ thanks, chris.] consider also recent HP announcements which have emphasized e commerce as a primary focus, our video server deal and this: To: Chris Elsass (5020 ) From: Chris Elsass Saturday, Jan 30 1999 8:30PM ET Reply # of 8134 Reiter has a program called netbadge that appears to be a candidate as a platform to build a document storage bank.reiterassoc.com " The real power of NetBadge is that it taps the power and speed of an Intranet. An Intranet web site has many advantages over a traditional client/server-based program. All of the system files and pages exist on a web/file server and are accessed via a standard web browser. To the end user these pages act like a program, but the system administrator does not have all the hassles and configuration difficulties associated with a client/server application. An Intranet web-based application also has the advantage of speed and efficiency, less data needs to be sent across the network. Best of all, if you didn't previously have an Intranet you will have one with NetBadge, which you could also use for your company as a basis for tasks such as document imaging/sharing, e-mail, meeting notifications, scheduling, publications, etc.. You could also extend it to Internet access, with appropriate security precautions. " NOTE ** You could also extend it to Internet access, with appropriate security precautions. ** AKA Document Bank Chris