Re: Extranet

Subject: Re: Extranet
From: Paula Puffer <techwrtr -at- CEI -dot- NET>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:13:54 -0500

At 06:01 PM 6/6/97 -0500, Dr. Bill Warner wrote:
>Technical Writers,
>
>The manager of technical writing (Product Information) for our
>international company assigned me to gather all the information I can
>secure on "extranets." We have an award winning intranet. A new
>priority is to establish an extranet for our U.S. and international
>customer companies.

Excuse me for asking a dumb question here, but what is an "extranet"?
I know an intranet is an internal net within an organization, but what is
an extranet supposed to do? Or is an extranet just a fancy jargon word for
a web site?

Paula



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