Unbounded by time, geography, or corporate affiliation, this group briefly focused attention on a problem, pooled knowledge about it, then disbanded. This is Internet groupware in action. Although we use these modes of communication every day, we tend to take them for granted. That's one reason why we don't exploit them as fully as we should on our intranets. Another is that most intranets fail to recreate the full suite of groupware tools available on the Internet.
Intranets always use Web servers to host applications and serve files.
And they always support e-mail. There's a huge opportunity to deliver these services on intranets, and huge benefits flow from doing so. Kit EarthWeb is a division of INT Media Group, Incorporated. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.