This implementation involves delivering transparently the immense informational resources of an organisation to each desktop with minimal cost, time and effort. Welcome to anyone who wants to share and learn.
Conventional wisdom has it that the mainframe is dead.
Gone are proprietary languages and client interfaces with long learning curves and high price tags. With password protection and other security measures, it could be done. Hence the birth of the extranet. Innovative Web companies are banking on extranets to reduce paperwork, streamline transactions and build mutual markets. They check each other's calendars over the Web, find an available day and time slot that fits everyone's schedules, and block it out.