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With plans to eventually connect all 90,000 of its employees to the World Wide Web, Xerox Corp. last week began weaving a Web-based "intranet," linking the company's far-flung information resources under a single open system.
More than 15,000 Xerox employees were given immediate access to a new internal Web site called "The Xerox WebBoard," and plans are underway to increase their number to some 50,000 to 60,000 workers by the end of 1996. The Xerox WebBoard contains postings of daily company and market news, a company folklore area, phone directories and provides links to other Xerox home pages and outside sites of potential interest.
In a speech broadcast by satellite to 120 Xerox offices worldwide, CEO Paul Allaire predicted the WebBoard eventually will change the way the copier and print-products company operates its business. "Our goal is to change the way our people distribute information," said Malcolm Kirby, manager of applied collaborative technology for Xerox, Stamford, Conn.
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