Recommended Intranet resources

We continue to collect sites that offer some perspective on building Intranets, networks that leverage IP and Internet technologies to better connect customers and businesses. If you know of any additional resources, let us know. This page last changed on March 21, 2006.

Intranet product charts

We've put together lists of current products in many areas that will be useful when it comes time to picking technology for your intranet:

• SSL VPN table
• Instant Messaging interoperability table
• web-based discussion forums and real-time conferencing products and services,
• Caching products and services,
• Internet appliances
• eCommerce resources,
• Internet-to-fax technologies,
• secure email products and interoperability,
• push-publishing technologies, and
• products with web-based graphical interfaces.

Realize that some of these product tables and charts are woefully outdated and haven't been touched for years. Sorry about that.

Recommended books

There are close to a hundred intranet-related books in print that cover everything from how to build your own intranets to corporate politics and products. Here are our favorites, along with links to the best books we've found. You can purchase them directly from Amazon.com's web site! Our first book on Internet Messaging was published in July, 1998. Other book recommendations for Internet and business books can be found here.

Other sites of interest

Here is some links to the best intranet-related sites we could find.

• Toby Ward's Intranet Blog, loads of great information, best practices, case studies, blogs and more.
• The Complete Intranet Resource which has loads of case studies and analysis, listings of white papers and is perhaps the most complete series of links we've found.
• Finding the right Intranet Technologies to buy, a white paper written by David Strom that lists several categories of products that may be useful in assembling Intranets.
• Earthweb's Intranet Journal, a site full of links to other places and analysis and commentary by Rob Brill
• "Art, Geeks and Power Ploys: How to Build Your Intranet" in Forbes ASAP magazine, August 1996 about how to get started.
• Steve Telleen's various Intranet-related white papers.
• Dan Kegel's Peer to Peer NATs, links to many Network Address translation sites and products.
• Intranet Roadmap by OpenConsult, tools, tips, resources, books, links and more.

David Strom