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60 Building an Enterprise Web Infrastructure Using Windows 2000
Charles
Brophy, University of Pittsburgh
From its inception more than a decade ago, the World
Wide Web (Web) has evolved from a tool for the research and scientific
community to what may arguably be the most accessible and broad-based
communication instrument of the twentieth century. The Web has altered the way people work, recreate, communicate,
and interact with each other. Commerce,
marketing and publication concepts have been transformed by the Web. Corporations, public organizations,
governments, educational institutions and individuals have access to a global
audience through the Web. An author,
artist, musician or publisher can reach millions of readers, viewers and
listeners throughout the world in a matter of minutes via the distributed
features of the Web.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Web presence represents
its current level of technology in the most visible form. The University's Web technology should
reflect a modern, sophisticated University that is at the forefront of current
technological trends. The University of
Pittsburgh’s web pages should be accessible to as many individuals as possible,
compatible with as many client applications as are available, and should
exploit the latest developments in web application technology.
Based on this criteria, the Enterprise Web
Infrastructure Project Team was charged with the following goals:
1. Provide a robust, reliable and upgradable web
server hardware infrastructure.
2. Provide a full-featured web server software
infrastructure.
3. Provide a content management software solution.
4. Provide a site management software solution.
This presentation will describe and detail the design and implementation of an enterprise web infrastructure using the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform and a three-tiered approach to the system architecture. The presenter will detail the process of platform evaluation, the role of content management and site management in the implementation. Unique partnership arrangements will be described as well.
Keywords: web, system architecture, content and site management, and partnership.