LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 1 (Reuter) - The overwhelming majority of America's top corporate high tech users will have implemented some Internet strategy over the next 12 months, although worries over security and distracted workers persist. A survey of 500 leading U.S. networking users found that 89 percent expect to have implemented strategies for using Internet technologies in internal corporate networks -- known as intranets -- by the end of the next 12 months. But 70 percent believe employees use the Internet for entertainment on company time and 54 percent are worried about the security of information they exchange over the Internet. A preview of the Network World 500 Internet study "Networking in the Cyber Age," jointly conducted by Network World and International Data Corp, was due to be released here on Tuesday at the NetWorld+Interop trade show. A significant portion of respondents -- 28 percent -- already make some use of Internet or intranet applications for making transactions in electronic commerce with customers, while 48 percent plan to do so in the next 12 months. "As networking enters the cyber age, it will create new electronic commerce oppertunities on the Internet, increasing general acceptance and demand," Network World president and chief executive Colin Ungaro said in a statement. Among the top five general Internet trends, 83 percent of respondents said they use the Internet for communications -- email and file sharing, while 78 percent said they use it for research, such as accessing electronic information. A majority of 55 percent said they access the Internet several times a day, and that most spend five to 30 minutes per session on-line using the global computer network. An overwhelming majority of 85 percent of respondents said they have Web servers in their organizations for Internet applications, and 73 percent for intranet use -- while 88 percent said new services will make public carriers more important to their company's enterprise network strategies. Fully 69 percent said they have remote access to local area networks for more than 200 employees. "The study demonstrates how quickly corporate America has become acclimated to Internet technologies," said John Gallant, editor-in-chief of Network World. The annual telephone survey polled 500 U.S. network users whose companies have internetworked local area networks and wide area networks and annual network expenditures of more than $5 million, with more than 1,000 employees. -- Silicon Valley Bureau +1 415 462 2610 _______________________ Regards, Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle@mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88