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We might need a better description of what features
you want in an Intranet. Here is a partial list of common Intranet
features:
- ToDo List
- News
- Human Resources Forms, booklets,
newsletters
- A web page per department and content
management
- personlization (think my.yahoo.com) - per user
customized layout, widget and content
- Calendars (personal, departmental, team,
corp)
- Threaded discussions
- FAQs
- Policy and Procedure documents
- Search engine for the intranet
- Document management
- Chat
- "Scorecards" - inventory levels, customer
satisfaction, sales initiatives
- Competitor tracking
These features can cost you some time to
create. You could purchase many of them. In the open source/free
world you might look at Apache JetSpeed and Apache Struts + Tiles as frameworks
to get you going in the right direction.
I've built an intranet still in use by 1000+ users
and it wasn't a simple undertaking.
If all you want is some dynamic web pages that hit
a database then check out Tomcat and the J2EE feature known as JSP as a starting
point. In many cases, an intranet is simply a nice static website using plain
'ol HTML.
Burr
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