Not surprisingly, the result is a lot of pandering. The message is there only to serve alien purposes. This is no eccentric reading of my own. Internet World tells corporate executives they must embrace intranets for no other reason than that they are happening. You can catch the Intranet wave and ride it or let your firm and your LAN be overwhelmed by the tides of change.
None seems to be necessary.
It's enough that intranets are there , and are deemed to represent a technical advance. By now, you've gathered that intranets can be pricey and, in some ways, hard to manage. The answer is yes. The future clearly belongs to the intranet model. The future belongs to intranets, where getting information anywhere and anytime is possible for your users.