Several years ago, the media discovered the Internet. This 'Internet explosion'
exposed the non-initiated to a worldwide computer network. Forged by the fear of
the nuclear fulfilment of the Cold War, this network had for over twenty years been
the domain of academia, precocious computer firms, the government and the
military. As the resulting technology continued to develop and thrive, the business
community, attracted by the prospect of open systems and low costs, began to
investigate the feasibility of applying Internet tools for internal information system
and distribution needs. The concept of such 'intranets' has grown increasingly
pervasive and persuasive, especially when their costs and development time are
compared to equivalent proprietary systems.
This paper examines some of the technological, economic and organizational
considerations involved with intranet development. This author undertook a
feasibility study in several departments of a large company in an attempt to identify
the factors. A methodology originally developed for electronic data interchange
(EDI) was used to help analyze the results.
This analysis indicates the Company is ill-prepared to take advantage of intranet
technology. However, the recent maturation of Java and the network computer
paradigm (the former allowing applications to run on any platform without
recompilation and the latter greatly reducing the administrative costs of bringing
computing power to the desktop) may provide the Company with a relatively
inexpensive method of leveraging the benefits of an intranet. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/5889 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Oram, John Wesley Isaac |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3578227 bytes, application/pdf |
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