I can say that after staring at his code and documentation
for a couple of days, but further evidence comes from the fact that
the ArsDigita intranet rewrite was relying on it, and extending it to
make it easier to use. Reading Michael Bryzek's notes about the
intranet project are what made me consider the portal
application an essential part of the toolkit.
Yes, I believe that ACES has been widely considered inside
aD as being a specialized variant of intranet. Given that ACES
relies very heavily on portals, it makes sense that intranet does
as well in 4.x.
The APM should do a nice job of making it possible to
share locally implemented portlets with other sites.
Am I understanding correctly that ACS Site X could tie into
Site Y's bboard (for example) and make it look as if it were an
integrated part of Site X? If so, that's fantastic!