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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peter J. Park Pangea Corporation 1-800-793-9372
+1-703-256-6871 info@pangea.com
PANGEA CORPORATION SHIPS MINDSHARE 1.0-- GROUP COMMUNICATION FOR
NEXTSTEP
BRINGS ADVANCED COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY TO WORKGROUPS
WASHINGTON, D.C.--January 24, 1994--Pangea Corporation today
announced it is shipping MindShare 1.0, a new NEXTSTEP groupware
application designed to meet the needs of sites that make heavy
use of electronic messaging.
With MindShare, Pangea has combined the ease-of-use of e-mail with
the inherent power of a client-server database to create a system
that not only relays messages between users but also provides a
collaboration environment, an electronic forum for storing,
organizing, and retrieving information. MindShare messages are kept
in "discussions," data repositories shared across an entire
organization. Workgroups use discussions for software development,
brainstorming, project tracking, document management, group editing,
publication distribution, help desks, and hundreds of other
applications.
By taking advantage of NEXTSTEP's Distributed Objects technology,
MindShare gracefully scales up to the largest LANs without degrading
in performance or reliability. MindShare also reduces administrative
requirements by allowing sites to grant various maintenance tasks
to users. For instance, a department head may be authorized to
create new discussions, thereby enabling rapid ad hoc team building
while lessening administrative overhead.
"As the first to deliver technology akin to Lotus Notes under
NEXTSTEP, Pangea is well positioned to be the leading groupware
vendor on the platform, " said Peter J. Park, president of Pangea
Corporation. "Customers are finding they receive a high return on
investment for groupware such as MindShare, putting them well ahead
of their competitors."
Customers benefit from discussion technology
MindShare's impressive feature set ranks it among the most powerful
communication tools available on any platform. High-speed searching
lets users scan thousands of messages in seconds. Message priorities
and flexible notification keep users informed while letting them
ignore junk mail. Message threading keeps all information in context.
And discussion access control ensures data security.
With MindShare's replication technology, servers can contact each
other periodically and efficiently synchronize their databases,
allowing workgroups to collaborate over networks of any size.
Because servers automatically conduct replication in the background,
users aren't burdened with complex message routing decisions.
Messages simply flow to where they're needed.
Pangea Groupware Engine (PGE) designed for customization and growth
MindShare 1.0 is the first program to use the Pangea Groupware
Engine (PGE), an advanced groupware-oriented object database server.
Like a NEXTSTEP software "kit," PGE features a set of groupware
objects providing infrastructure for data formats, database
replication, security, and administration. Future products from
Pangea, including the MindShare Mail electronic mail program also
announced today, will be based on PGE, forming a tightly integrated
suite of groupware applications.
Various APIs to PGE will be available in 1994. The beta release of
the PGE OpenMind Utilities, an interface for UNIX utilities and
other NEXTSTEP applications, was shipped January 14th. The OpenMind
Development Kit, providing a direct connection to PGE servers, will
be available in the second quarter of 1994. MindBridge for Notes,
a bridge between Lotus Notes servers and PGE, is expected in the
third quarter.
Availability and Pricing
MindShare 1.0 is available today for NeXT and Intel hardware.
Pricing is $695 per user, with no additional charge for PGE servers.
For the next 30 days, Pangea is offering an introductory price of
$495. Volume purchase and academic discounts are available to
qualified sites.
Pangea is committed to delivering MindShare for all future NEXTSTEP
and OpenStep platforms, including Sun's Solaris operating system.
Pangea Corporation
Pangea Corporation has been developing shrink-wrap and custom
groupware applications since 1991. Headquartered in Annandale,
Virginia, Pangea serves customers world-wide requiring enterprise
communication tools.
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Pangea, MindShare, MindShare Mail, Pangea Groupware Engine, OpenMind,
and MindBridge are trademarks of Pangea Corporation. All other
trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.