Re: Extranet

[Mike Collier - SSG <MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM>]

As far as I can tell from the hype on Netscape's home page, an extranet
in an extension of a company's intranet beyond the firewall. More
information, for what it's worth, can be found at
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/columns/mainthing/extranets.html


Michael Collier
mikecol -at- sbservices -dot- com
SOFTBANK Services Group
Buffalo, NY
http://www.sbservices.com


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>From:  Paula Puffer[SMTP:techwrtr -at- CEI -dot- NET]
>Sent:  Monday, June 09, 1997 9:13 AM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: Extranet
>
>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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