it is soon be found that web and browser could be applied inside the enterprise to make communication and information sharing much more effective. intranet emerges as the most important topics for information tech. professionals. as the technologies advance, the capabilities of intranet evolve to be, in additional to a communication media inside a corp., a new basis for enterprise distributed, clent server computing platform. web serves as a gateway service to the backend servers, like database server and messaging server. browser also has greater capability in order to support much conplex requirements of enterprise computing. and when we talk about corp. use of browser it has to be fully localized and very cost effective.

in the consumer market finally internet will become a big marketplace where consumers, merchants, and financial institutions will interact with each other in the cyberspace and conduct transctions online. browser will have to support advanced 'virtual reality' capability to make the shopping experience more real. browser will also have to support sophisticated security features in order to make the transction secure.