Datamation: Case Study: Perseus Re-Starts Intranet Engines

Sep 09, 2001, 09:55 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Troy Dreier)

"'Trellix Web is great because it dynamically manages a whole site," he says. He appreciates that he can maintain long lists of documents that are easy for users to navigate. If he wants to change the order of documents, or add or delete pages, Trellix manages the links so he doesn't have to.

His second tool is Live Journal, an open-source program that creates online threaded discussions. He's found it to be just the thing to jumpstart group input.

For the backend, the new intranet uses a secured version 7.1 distribution of RedHat Linux, which runs an Apache Web server, says Barnaby Claydon, Perseus's technical project manager. Hardware is a Pentium III, 450-MHz HP server."

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