It is difficult to conduct video conferencing through the
Internet. Even the voices of discussants who use internet
phones come out (slightly) distorted.
All this did not prevent 95% of the Fortune 1000 from
installing intranet. 82% of the rest intend to install one by
the end of this year. Medium to big size American firms have
50-100 intranet terminals per every internet one.
At the end of 1997, there were 10 web servers per every other
type of server in organizations. The sale of intranet related
software was projected to multiply by 16 (to 8 billion USD) by
the year 1999.
One of the greatest advantages of the intranet is the ability
to transfer documents between the various parts of an
organization. Consider Visa: it pushed 2 million documents per
day internally in 1996.
An organization equipped with an intranet can (while protected
by firewalls) give its clients or suppliers access to non-
classified correspondence. This notion has its charm.
Consider a newspaper: it can give access to all the materials
which were discarded by the editors.
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