The Internet is a wonderful service, with a variety of powerful new information capabilities. Internet technology has spawned greatly and one of the its important aspects is the Intranet. Intranet technology is a big step on the long march toward ultimate automation. It will prove to be one of the most inexpensive, powerful, and widely adopted information technologies through the end of the decade.
Intranet is also network and workstation independent.
As it operates in the same way the Internet operates, anyone with a Web browser can access the information intranet contains. Workstation independence means people with Macs, PCs, and other varieties of workstations within the same organization can use an existing Web browser, e.g., Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to access the information on the Web server. A few other aspects of Intranet technology make it an even more compelling solution, i.e., the ease and low cost of creating Web servers, the facilitation of interoffice communication, and existing document production tools and viewing tools required to use it.