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commercial off-the-shelf application. One of the side effects of this migration
was the new vocabulary that the new application imposed on the business. The
corporation, wanting to help the businesspeople get used to the new terms,
saw the corporate dictionary as a way to facilitate this objective.
The corporation had an intranet portal, so it placed a small portlet resembling
the one shown in Figure 8.9 on the main portal page, which allowed a user to
enter a business term or phrase and press the lookup button. The main portal
page resembled a newspaper, and we had the portal designers locate the dic- ...