Second Life Enterprise just went Beta.  What does Enterprise do?

• familiar Second Life environment
• completely within the company intranet, behind the firewall
• prepackaged virtual regions, with a four-corners auditorium that can hold 400 people.
• set of standard business avatars.

Among Open Beta Participants:

• IBM,
• Northrop Grumman,
• Naval Undersea Warfare Center,
• DefenseWeb Technologies,
• Case Western Reserve University,
• The New Media Consortium,

Read the press highlights

• CNN, Going to the Virtual Office in Second Life
• InformationWeek, Second Life Steps into the Enterprise
• eWeek, Second Life Takes Virtual Reality Behind the Firewall at I