Are there different kinds of intranets?
There is some variation in what individuals identify as an intranet. Some individuals characterize any system which uses TCP/IP as an intranet regardless of how the software is distributed in a client/server architecture. At another extreme, some implicitly assume that the client software will be limited to a browser only and all other software will be located on a server machine or machines. The latter kind of intranet is often sighted as a low maintenance system which can even be implemented on a network computer do to its small software profile. Other installations may be somewhere in-between, having a browser – HTML server front end and other software both on the network servers and the client machines. To some extent, these factors may be chosen depending upon the needs of the users and constraints of the application and network connections.