The Dream of a Single Sign-On B2E Portal
But those portals will never take on desktop functionality. Look at e-mail. Outlook is so much better than Web-based e-mail, for example, that you could never ask users to settle for an HTML interface.
Or could you? IBM has already released a browser-based versions of Notes, targeting workers who don’t sit at desks. You could use dynamic HTML, Flash or client-side Java to create enriched versions of browser-based applications. Then you don’t need to wait for Microsoft to reinvent the wheel with Longhorn in order to have "desktop" applications that are fully integrated into the enterprise infrastructure. It’s a thought?especially when you think about how much lower the licensing costs would be. And it’s got to be Microsoft’s worst nightmare.
Get the latest on network infrastructure tools and technologies.
