ABSTRACT
WEB-TO-HOST INTEGRATION, NOW THAT Y2K is HISTORY, is THE MOST pressing, but equally the most rewarding, challenge facing MIS professionals around the world. Web-to-host integration permits the proven, mission-critical data center systems and applications to be seamlessly and synergistically assimilated with Internet technology-based networks and Web server-based information infrastructures. Web-tohost integration permits PC, Apple Mac, and workstation users (e.g., UNIX) to effortlessly access data center applications and databases via a standard Web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer-across the global Internet, a corporate-specific intranet, or a business-to-business extranet. Web-to-host integration also permits data resident on IBM (or compatible) mainframes or AS/400 minicomputers to be easily incorporated into highly visual, multimedia Web pages that also happen to include data from other sources-including Web servers.
