Any studies on Portal pages?

[andyp77]

Hey guys,

The company I work for has 2 primary products - both have similar branding but are currently hosted on 2 seperate domains (eg: www.myproduct1.com and www.myproduct2.com)

Does anyone know of any articles/studies about creating a combined portal page from which users can access either product? So they would land at www.myproduct.com and then be routed to either www.myproduct.com/product1 or www.myproduct.com/product2

Is it a good thing/bad thing? Do users like it? What should I watch out for when considering this?

thanks :)

[shigamoto]

Are the products related? Having two completely different products on one page might get confusing.

[andyp77]

Yes the products are in the same industry. It makes sense to have them together, although each has a slightly different target market.

One of the products is particularly strong, so we want the other product to benefit from this branding.