The really big news in the coming years will be the intersection (but hopefully not the collision) of mainstream corporate-accepted applications and Internet apps, so that corporate users can access Internet information from their current clients (Notes, Word, PowerPoint and Acrobat Reader); and leading corporate data formats.
Predictor: Dern, Daniel
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article, Network Computing writer, Daniel Dern reports on how the Internet could transform business. He writes: ”The really big news in the coming years will be the intersection (but hopefully not the collision) of mainstream corporate-accepted applications and Internet apps, so that corporate users can access Internet information from their current clients (Notes, Word, PowerPoint and Acrobat Reader); and leading corporate data formats – for example, Lotus Notes can be viewed through leading Internet servers and clients-such that this info can be readily ‘published’ to and through the Internet. It’s happening already. Lotus Notes, for example, has been talking about gateway products that will let Lotus Notes databases be viewed from World-Wide Web servers. The next step, of course, is making Lotus Notes clients ‘Internet-aware.’ There are already several Usenet-Notes gateways, enabling Notes users to browse Usenet Newsgroups; next there will be Mosaic-like support for other Internet protocols/servers (Gopher, WWW, FTP, and so on) and Internet document/file types. Other leading application vendors are busily doing standards cross-overs. MIME already understands Microsoft Word and PowerPoint as insertable document types, for example. There’s talk of Adobe Acrobat-to-WWW converters. QuadRelay (QuadRelay.Com) has released GHWIS, a WWW-oriented Global Help system.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet, Your Company and You
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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