• BuildAnIntranet

Just a rough sketch

1. choose applications: discussions, announcements, manage info, manage documents

2. choose server: Like MSIIS WebProgramming

3. choose database, SQL Server is a good choice
4. generate content: Using Front Page works well, Python XML libraries, libraries to generate HTML

5. generate navigation buttons: GraphicsAndImages

6. test: urllib, htmllib, xmlrpc
7. use Python to automate deployment, testing, documentation

Well, the above looks like written by and for "Microsoft people".

A potentially more stable and definitely more free way to build an intranet is like that:

1. choose applications: discussions, announcements, manage info, manage documents
2. choose server and OS: Apache on Linux

3. generate content: use a wiki engine like MoinMoin (it is like that thing you are looking at right now)

4. teach yourself and people to do it the WikiWay