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"Intranet Resource Kit", Prakesh Ambegaonkar, 1997, 0-07-882262-9,
U$39.99/C$57.95
%E   Prakesh Ambegaonkar
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   1997
%G   0-07-882262-9
%I   McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne
%O   U$39.99/C$57.95 800-565-5758 fax: 905-430-5020 louisea@McGrawHill.ca
%P   498
%T   "Intranet Resource Kit"
 
Given that almost everyone on the team works for Frontier, and given that a
copy of "Intranet Genie Lite" is included with the package, the authors are
remarkably restrained in their pushing of Genie as a product.  The book does
deal generically with the issue of intranet creation, as long as you limit your
definition of an intranet to an in-house LAN using Internet applications.
 
That said, while it is a reasonable job, it is not an outstanding one.  The
flaws in the coverage of viruses jumped out at me, of course.  Chapter two
stresses the danger of boot sector infectors (which cannot spread over a
network), don't mention macro viruses, JavaScript, or ActiveX at all, and
recommend two widely sold but poorly performing products (misspelling the name
of one).  Chapter nine identifies "variants" as a type of virus.  The technical
quality of other topics is better, but the overall insight provided is nothing
to get excited about.
 
In regard to the software provided, while the book covers a broad array of
applications, the CD-ROM only gives you a three-machine license set of Web
tools for Windows NT.  Explanations of email (the "first tool to implement",
according to page nine) and other groupware is left as an exercise to the
reader.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKITRNRK.RVW   970223
 
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