Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Summary

For good reasons, portals are high on the information technology priority lists. They offer broad, measurable business benefits for many types of organizations. Now that the technology and products for portals have reached a certain maturity, they have entered the mainstream. With .NET, portal technology is much more affordable than in its first generation. As we will see, the .NET platform offers a richer and more flexible portal platform than many of its competitors.

With the proliferation of portals and portal products, there can be no doubt that portals are a significant phenomenon. They are here to stay and evolve into more sophisticated forms. Indeed, the underlying standards and technologies that make up today's portals are likely ...