
2 DB2 II and WPS Synergy
1.1 What are portals
Portals have been around since the early days of the World Wide Web. Whether
they knew it or not, everyone who has ever used the Internet has probably used
a portal. Generally synonymous with
entrance or gate, a portal is often the page
we see when we use a browser to visit a company’s Web site to perform tasks
such as searching for information, or executing a stock trade.
A portal is therefore a single interface that provides convenient access to
everything a user needs to get his/her tasks done, regardless of where the
information needed to get them done exists. Whether to search for and buy a ...