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

Conclusion

Achieving highly scalable and available systems is a challenging endeavor that calls for study of complex hardware and software interactions. The diverse needs of the portal make it even more challenging than traditional applications, because the portal combines requirements for fast service of static web content, real-time interaction, transaction processing, server-to-server integration, data warehousing—in short, nearly every feature that could be demanded of today's computing environment. You may end up calling on an interdisciplinary team of experts to arrive at a solution that works for you. It takes even longer to come up with a solution that is affordable that will work.

The rewards of building a successful portal for nearly ...