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- Subject: comp.groupware FAQ: Products1: Frequently Asked Questions
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- Date: 25 Apr 1997 00:44:01 GMT
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- Summary: Groupware Products, part one
- Keywords: CSCW, orgware, group, interactive, shared, environments
- X-Last-Updated: 1995/09/08
- Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU
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- Archive-name: comp-groupware-faq/products1
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- Last-modified: 1995.9.8
- Version: 3.4
- Copyright: 1990 - 1995 (C) David S. Stodolsky, PhD
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- Groupware Products
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-
- This posting is primarily a test of the new setext format (see the
- guidelines for further information). No attempt has been made to
- organize this list, beyond removing obvious duplicates. Appearance of an
- entry does not constitute an endorsement. Absence from the list does not
- constitute a rejection. Send corrections and additions to the copyright
- holder.
-
- dss
-
-
-
- Yellow Pages of CSCW
- --------------------
- Updates and additions must go to: paal.malm@tft.tele.no
-
- Pal S. Malm: The unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW 28 May 93 10:56
-
- A new revision of my "Groupware List" now called "The unOfficial Yellow
- Pages of CSCW" is ready for downloading. It contains 280 descriptions of
- experimental and commercial groupware, CSCW projects, and systems with
- groupware features.
- The descriptions also contain e-mail, office, and ftp addresses, and
- references to a bibliography at the end of the document. A (new) index,
- sorted by classes, will help you navigate.
- This list will give answers to many FAQs in comp.groupware.
-
- The 50 page long document can be obtained in postscript format with
- anonymous ftp from gorgon.tft.tele.no (192.135.199.112) in /pub/groupware.
- A clean text file called TOC.txt is a copy of the table of contents.
-
- This is how to do it:
- ftp gorgon.tft.tele.no
- Name (gorgon.tft.tele.no:...): anonymous
- Password: <your email address>
- ftp> cd pub/groupware
- ftp> ls
- cscw_yp.ps.Z
- cscw_yp.sea.bin
- HELP
- README
- TOC.ascii
- ftp> bin
- ftp> get README
- ftp> get cscw_yp.ps.Z
- ftp> bye
- 221 Goodbye.
- > uncompress GrpwList.ps.Z
- > lpr GrpwList.ps
- If you if run into trouble, download the file HELP.
-
-
- Conferencing Systems
- --------------------
- Subject: SUMMARY: Conferencing Systems: Information Needed
- Date: 4 Aug 93 14:37:54 GMT
- Organization: Informatik, Univ. Stuttgart. W.Germany
-
- =
- Dietmar Zaig <dz@bsun3.zfe.siemens.de> wrote [Translation by me]:
-
- The English Company Mentec offers the videokonferencing system VS-1000
- (Tel. +44 494 472800, Fax +44 494 449256, to Mr. Gledhill). The
- system is based on H.261 and G.711 (audio) and is a plug-in card for
- ISA-PCs.
-
-
- vsuresh@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (V. Suresh Kumar) wrote:
-
- There are two PD conferencing tools I could think of: Collage and shx
- Collage runs on X-Workstations and PC (386++).
-
- ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu --- collage
-
- ftp crl.dec.com --- shx
-
-
- kevin@pictel.com (Kevin Davis) wrote:
-
- News Release Date: 19 Jul 1993
-
- PICTURETEL INTRODUCES TWO NEW GLOBAL VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT FAMILIES
- WHICH OFFER COMPLETE, COMPATIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES OF ALL SIZES
-
- DANVERS, Mass. (July 16, 1993) -- PictureTel Corporation, the global leader in
- dial-up videoconferencing, today introduced new desk-top and low-cost group
- conferencing families of standards-based products that provide complete,
- compatible videoconferencing solutions for all applications, including distance
- learning, telemedicine and telemarketing. Both product families are available
- in five languages, including English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese.
-
- The desk-top system, called the PictureTel LIVE(tm), PCS 100(tm), is a complete
- global standards-based, personal visual communications add-on solution priced
- at
- US $5,995 for personal computers running Microsoft Windows 3.1(r). PictureTel
- LIVE provides dial-up visual communications, screen sharing and collaborative
- computing over public switched digital networks.
-
- Priced from US $13,995, the System 1000(tm) is a full-featured, low-cost,
- standards-based group videoconferencing family which complements PictureTel's
- high performance System 4000(tm) product family. It is a global product that is
- simple to order, install and use. The System 1000 provides Full CIF support
- for the TSS (formerly CCITT) H.320 videoconferencing standard.
-
-
- DeskTop Conferencing
-
- DeskTop Conferencing enables up to eight people to share screens.
- Windows and Novel environments at about $299 per user.
-
- Jeanette Carrol
- Fujitsu Networks Industry, Inc.
- 1-800-446-4736
-
-
- From: dean_bittner@ccinet.ab.ca (Dean Bittner)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Bittco Ships Co-motion-a 1.5 and Co-motion Lite
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 00:56:54 -0600
-
- Myrna Bittner/ Shelly Hines
- Bittco Solutions Ltd.
- #26, 52510 Rge Rd 213
- Ardrossan, AB, Canada, T0B 0E0
- 1-800-265-2726 or 403-922-5514
- fax: 403-922-2859
- AppleLink: BITTCO
- Internet: bittco@atc.edmonton.ab.ca
-
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada--14 OCTOBER 94: For people who collaborate,
- Bittco Solutions today announced the shipping of an update to Co-motion for
- Macintosh, and the release of a shareware product, Co-motion Lite for
- Macintosh. With these two products, Bittco continues to bring real-time,
- multi-user collaboration software to your desktop.
-
- Co-motion 1.5 provides a solution for people who don't want to brainstorm
- alone and who don't want to just brainstorm. With Co-motion 1.5, an
- individual can get their group working together to brainstorm and evaluate
- ideas during a shared, live discussion over their network. "In the
- real-time environment of the Session window and Chat palette, ideas come
- fast and furious as everyone can talk at the same time through their
- keyboards," says Myrna Bittner, product manager, Bittco. "Inspiration
- doesn't have to wait for someone else to finish!" The group's evaluation
- of each idea also increases the efficiency of the issue resolution and
- decision-making process. Official Co-motion Reports detail each idea,
- notes and group evaluation statistics. The participants walk away knowing
- exactly what their group thinks.
-
-
- From: joe@netcom.com (Joseph Jesson)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Video Conferencing
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 14:53:49 GMT
-
- I am working on a large pilot of Desktop Videoconferencing tools. We
- looked at Intel, AT&T Vistium, and PicTel's desktop units. The Pictel had
- the highest resolution and best picture quality and highest list price.
- AT&T needs to improve the video camera but the overal useability is quite
- high and lower cost than PicTel. Intel was at the bottom, since H.320
- was critical to our needs...
-
- Joseph Jesson joe@netcom.com Day (312) 856-3645 Eve (708) 356-6817
- 21414 W. Honey Lane, Lake Villa, IL, 60046
-
-
- From: dboomstein@aol.com (Dboomstein)
- Subject: Re: Whiteboard capability needed
- Date: 1 Mar 1995 09:37:41 -0500
-
- If you need more than just a shared whiteboard and you have a LAN/WAN
- environment i suggest you call Viewpoint systems in Dallas, TX. Their
- Personal Viewpoint provides 30 frame per second video along with the
- audiographics on pc's. Their number is 214-243-0634.
-
-
- FarSite for Windows
- -------------------
- For efficient interactive communication, FarSite for Windows
- provides electronic metaphors for common presentation tools,
- including a shared whiteboard, concurrent on-line pointers, a
- variety of drawing tools, and a special electronic tray for
- storing changes made to any individual screen display, or "slide."
- It also offers a tool for adding or editing text in any Windows
- font style or size; a variety of annotation editing options;
- familiar Windows cut, copy and paste features; and context-
- sensitive, on-line help.
-
- To create a FarSite presentation, users capture screens from
- other applications, using a built-in snapshot tool. FarSite for
- Windows also imports information directly from 11 common graphic
- file formats, including PCX, TIFF, EPS and JPEG.
-
- Designed for point-to-point use through a modem, FarSite for
- Windows features advanced compression techniques and transmits
- typical slides in less than seven seconds at 14,400 bits per
- second. It supports the recently adopted ITU-T (formerly CCITT)
- T.120 conferencing standards.
-
- System Requirements
- -----
- FarSite for Windows requires a 386- or 486-based Windows-
- compatible personal computer, Microsoft Windows 3.1, 4 MB RAM and
- 1.5 MB disk space. Users also need a mouse or mouse-compatible
- pointing device and a modem (9,600 bps recommended) or Hayes-
- compatible ISDN adapter.
-
- Pricing and Availability
- -------
- FarSite for Windows, Standard Edition, is available immediately
- directly from DataBeam or its resellers, at a suggested retail
- price of $179. The package is also bundled with AT&T Paradyne's
- new DataPort 2001 multimedia modem.
-
- DataBeam plans to introduce a Corporate Edition of FarSite for
- Windows during the first quarter of 1994. FarSite Corporate
- Edition will add support for multiple users communicating over a
- variety of local- and wide-area networks. DataBeam will also
- pursue a strategy of licensing its core technology to
- independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment
- manufacturers (OEMs) for incorporation into other product lines.
-
- Contact Information
- ---
- Product Information: 800-877-2325
- FAX: 606-245-3528
- Internet Address: fs_win@databeam.com
-
- 3191 Nicholasville Road
- Lexington, KY 40503
-
-
- Huddle
- ------
- VMS host PC peer based conferencing system.
-
- Inovative Software
- POB 13170
- Denver, CO 80201-4500
- (800) 548 6755
-
-
- PacerForum
- ----------
- It is focused on conferencing
- and project collaboration using a bulletin board discussion model.
- Support for multiple sound, file, application and graphic attachments per
- "posting" is provided. Mark is correct that after 2+ years of offering a
- Mac only solution we are rolling out Windows client and server components
- in phases.
-
- Pacer can be reached via phone at (800) -PACER-02.
-
- Offices:
-
- 7911 Herschel Ave. 1900 West Park Drive
- Suite 402 Suite 280
- La Jolla, CA 92037 Westborough, MA 01581
- (619) 454-0565 (508) 898-3300
-
- Peter Coppola
- Pacer Software, Inc.
- pcoppola@pacersoft.com
-
-
- TeamWARE
- --------
- from ICL. They
- describe their product as being "a client/server based office information
- system for Windows 3.1, Mac or OS/2 clients and UNIX, OS/2 or Windows NT
- servers. It provides mail, conferencing/bulletin board, calendar,
- document storage/retrieval and workflow functions."
-
- Peter Coppola
- Pacer Software, Inc.
- pcoppola@pacersoft.com
-
- [http://www.teamware.icl.fi/]
-
-
- FirstClass
- ----------
- Date: 21 Jan 1994 18:24:55 -0500
- From: maury@softarc.com (Maury S. Markowitz)
- Reply-To: maury@softarc.com
- Subject: Re: What Other Groupware Packages Are There?
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
-
- FirstClass is built around an e-mail system, but with some interesting
- extensions. As far as e-mail goes, it has all the expected functionality,
- forward, reply (to all, conferences, sender etc.), unsend (rework), an
- unlimited number of TO and CC names, an unlimited number of file attachments,
- styled textm receipts etc. etc.
-
- [...]
-
- In addition, FirstClass uses the concept of "public mailboxes" for
- conferencing. Like a standard "BBS" this includes threading, new message
- tracking, file transfer etc. It uses the full mail system, so you can send a
- message to a conference and CC it to a person, or even send it to several
- different conferences. Only one message is stored on the server in these
- cases. Better yet, the system allows a fully hierarchical layout for the
- conferences, unlike some systems that force you to use a flat directory.
-
-
- Second Sight BBS
- ----------------
- Although graphical interface BBS software and mail packages such
- as FirstClass, TeleFinder, and NovaLink Pro have taken over much
- of the Mac-based BBS, service bureau, and email market, text-based
- BBS software such as Second Sight is still popular. The universal
- VT100-compatible interface that's presented to all users
- regardless of client platform carries a strong advantage; the
- graphical packages require specialized client software that is
- typically available for a limited range of platforms.
-
- The host software supports serial DTE rates (between computer and
- modem) from 300 to 57,600 bps, and DCE rates (between modems) from
- 300 to 14,400 bps, plus 16,800 bps and the yet-to-be-released
- 28,800 bps speed. Hardware handshaking (RTS/CTS flow control) is
- fully supported on Macs equipped with a "Gpi" (general purpose
- input) pin in their serial ports; the Mac Plus, Classic, and LC
- family Macs are not so equipped. The software now offers "true
- multi-line support," including support for Creative Solutions's
- Hurdler and Applied Engineering's QuadraLink and QuadraLink DMA
- cards, all of which are multiple-serial-port NuBus cards.
-
- The FreeSoft Company -- 412/846-2700 -- 412/847-4436 (fax)
- (Full review in TidBITS#208/10-Jan-94)
-
-
- COLLAGE
- -------
- --Contact: Dave Thompson (davet@VOID.NCSA.UIUC.EDU), NCSA.
- --Platf.: Unix/X, Mac (and PC).
- A synchronous collaborative data analysis tool for use over the Internet.
- Features include:
- Shared whiteboard, screen capture/sharing, chat box, shared text editor +++
- Available on anonymous ftp server ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50)
- /UNIX/XCollage/Collage1.2. Documentation for the Unix version of collage
- can be found on ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the folder
- /UNIX/XCollage/XCollage1.2/DOCS.
-
-
- P2P: Person To Person/2
- -----------------------
- --Contact: IBM, p2p@vnet.ibm.com
- --Platf.: OS/2 2.x, Windows 3.1 released. AIX in beta test (contact
- above address for more information on AIX).
-
- P2P allows up to 8 users to connect their PCs or workstations and share
- information in real time across a variety of networks and protocols -
- NETBIOS, TCP/IP, APPC, ISDN, PSTN using modems. Collaborative tools
- include chalkboard, network clipboard and DDE, file transfer, text
- message exchange and digital video (with additional hardware).
- All operating system version interoperate so calls may contain a mixture
- of OS/2, Windows and AIX machines using several different connection
- types simultaneously. Price $285 for a single license, $1875 for 10 licenses.
-
- <a href="http://www.hursley.ibm.com/p2p/">Person to Person Pages</a>
-
-
- From: dawilson@VNET.IBM.COM (Dave Wilson)
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 13:48:55 BST
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: New FTP address for IBM P2P Information
-
- Our local FTP site has just changed its name from hursley.ibm.com (or
- mersey.hursley.ibm.com) to ftp.hursley.ibm.com. Anyone looking for
- the P2P information and support area is, therefore, advised to use the
- new address since the old one will be taken off line in a couple of
- weeks. Apologies for any inconvenience.
-
- Information on the new P2P architecture and API can be found in the
- \pub\p2p directory.
-
-
- P2P questions lead to winsock and tcpip questions
- -------------------------------------------------
- From: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke)
- Subject: Re: p2p questions lead to winsock and tcpip questions
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware,alt.winsock
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 20:11:56 +0000
-
- In article <17AUG199418114544@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu> dmittleman@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman) writes:
- [Lots of good questions omitted - I'll try to answer some of them ...]
-
- TCP/IP is a networking protocol. It can run over Ethernet, or over
- serial lines (using SLIP or PPP), or over other kinds of hardware link.
-
- As there are lots of different Ethernet cards, all requiring different
- commands to get them to talk to one another, various enterprising
- companies have invented standard protocols to talk to them. (I love
- standards - let's all have one :-)
-
- One such standard is the "Packet Driver Interface". Others are IPX and
- ODI. Once you have a standard, hardware people can write a driver for
- their card which conforms to the interface, and software programmers can
- write software that expects to see a particular standard interface, and we
- can guarantee that the software can talk to any card that has an
- appropriate driver.
-
- The Packet Driver Interface is used by most public domain and shareware
- software. Luckily there are "shims" which can convert from one standard
- to another (e.g. IPXODI and ODIPKT).
-
- On top of the packet driver interface, you need something called a TCP/IP
- stack. This contains all the code to do TCP/IP bit. Most DOS programs have
- their TCP/IP stack built in - there are a number of PD source file
- collections that make it quite easy for DOS programmers to do this.
- Usually the TCP/IP stack provides a Berkeley Sockets interface (or
- something pretty similar). Berkeley Sockets (originally developed for
- Unix, of course) just provides the programmer with a reasonably simple way
- of talking TCP/IP to another machine - you open a "socket" at each end,
- and stuff data through it.
-
- There are lots of DOS programs (each with their own TCP/IP stack inside
- them) that can talk to a packet driver interface. Some companies (e.g. FTP
- Software) have developed their own TCP/IP stack, and software to run over
- it. Of course, there is lots of free or shareware software too.
-
- However, once you run Windows, you have to work a little harder. For a
- start, Windows has a habit of moving things around in memory, but the
- packet drivers don't know about this, and things tend to go bang ! This
- problem is solved by a TSR called WINPKT - all this does is to deal with
- Windows moving stuff about.
-
- OK so far - now you can run Windows, and run any single program that
- contains a TCP/IP stack (the packet drivers are not geared up for multi-
- tasking). There is a TSR called PKTMUX which attempts to cope with lots
- of different programs all wanting to access a single packet driver, but
- we'll leave that to one side for now.
-
- Now comes the WINSOCK spec. This is the spec for a DLL that provides a
- standard interface to _Windows_ programs. This interface is at the
- Berkeley sockets level (with a few additional bits to make it more Windows
- friendly). All the TCP/IP stack vendors have a WINSOCK nowadays, and there
- is a shareware one (Trumpet Winsock) as well. Trumpet Winsock will sit on
- top of Packet Drivers, or can even do SLIP all by itself, direct to a
- serial port.
-
- Now we are cooking - you can run lots of WINSOCK-compliant Windows programs
- all at the same time, all talking to the same WINSOCK.DLL. You can get the
- Winsock from Trumpet, or from any TCP/IP stack vendor (including Novell, I
- should point out).
-
- A few extra things I should point out ...
-
- There are two versions of WinQVTNet - one runs over packet drivers (and
- must therefore be the only networking program you run, unless you want to
- get into PKTMUX). The other version is Winsock compliant, and will run
- over any Winsock, along with as many other Winsock-compliant programs as
- you like.
-
- When you get into a Novell (or WfWG) networking situation, things become a
- little more complicated down at the packet driver/hardware level. Novell
- (for instance) has its own networking protocols (IPX/ODI etc.), but they
- have thoughfully provided a means whereby you can run TCP/IP and Novell's
- own protocols at the same time over the same network. I don't know all
- that much about this, as I try not to get involved :-) However, I do know
- you have to have the correct incantations in your NET.CFG for this to
- work.
-
- Microsoft are in the process of releasing their own Winsock (for Windows
- for Workgroups 3.11 only, not Windows 3.1). This does not (currently)
- support SLIP, but it uses their own 32-bit drivers, and is reputed to be
- very good.
-
- So, to summarise, to run a Winsock-compliant application, you first need
- something like the following ...
-
- Network hardware
- [Optional extra layers for Novell or WfWG]
- A packet driver for the hardware (or a shim for the lower layers)
- Winpkt
- Microsoft Windows
- A Winsock from your TCP/IP vendor, or Trumpet Winsock
-
- [SLIP users ignore this - you only need a Winsock that supports SLIP
- directly, like Trumpet.]
-
- [Note that some TCP/IP vendors do not use a packet driver interface - you'll
- have to ask them what you need.]
-
- P.S. I hope someone is writing this down, for correction (I always make
- mistakes to avoid offending the Supreme Being :-) and inclusion in the FAQ.
- --
- Nikki Locke,Trumphurst Ltd.(PC & Unix consultancy) nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk
- trmphrst.demon.co.uk is NOT affiliated with ANY other sites at demon.co.uk.
-
-
- XChange
- -------
- XChange - an X-window based conferencing system
-
- tompkins@erc.cat.syr.edu (Terry Tompkins)
-
-
- ForComment
- ----------
- Computer Associates
-
-
- Meeting Space
- -------------
- I should note up front that Meeting Space is text and graphics-
- based - it doesn't attempt to do video or sound since few people
- have the necessary equipment and few networks can handle the
- traffic. However, you can appear as any one of a large set of
- icons (or make your own) and in fact you can clone yourself to
- appear in multiple places at the same time, and each clone can
- have a different icon to indicate its role or mood
-
- Meeting Space provides tools for structuring meetings and keeping
- them moving, including agendas, automatic recorders, and
- presentation screens. Planned for future releases are tokens for
- speaking, moderator gavels, white boards, voting, and various
- privacy enhancements like digital signatures, encrypted network
- connections, and digital envelopes. You can create presentations
- in any application that can print or export data through copy &
- paste to the Scrapbook, and if you've ever had a bunch of people
- crowding around a small screen, you can see that a virtual
- presentation could work a lot better than a physical one.
-
- Meeting Space requires a 68020 or better Macintosh along with
- System 7 and at least 1 MB of RAM and 1 MB of disk space (for
- either the client or the server). Meeting Space works over
- AppleTalk networks such as standard LocalTalk and modems connected
- via ARA, and over TCP/IP networks like the Internet with MacTCP
- and an appropriate connection (via a network or SLIP or PPP). The
- client software may be freely distributed, but the server software
- is a bit steep at $1,750 for a five-user license ($350 per user on
- a scale that drops the per-user cost to $200 for twenty users).
- World Benders offers discounts for site licenses, educational
- uses, and resellers. In general, they're aiming at the business
- market that can compare the cost of Meeting Space to a plane
- ticket, or even a dozen time-wasting trips across town, and
- quickly recoup the cost. In an especially clever move, the server
- allows more than the specified number of users to connect, but if
- you're over the limit (and this applies to everyone who connects
- after the limit is reached), it lets you connect for only 10
- minutes, enough time to get on, find someone, talk briefly, and
- get off. If someone else disconnects while you're on borrowed
- time, so to speak, you become a full user with no time limit. The
- client software is currently only available for the Macintosh, but
- World Benders plans to create Windows and Unix clients later this
- year.
-
- World Benders -- 603/881-5432 (voice & fax)
- wb-info@worldbenders.com
-
- Extracted from a report in TidBITS#210/24-Jan-94.
-
-
- EBT
- ---
- From: Dan Clapper <CLAPPER@clvm.bitnet>
-
- EBT is a standalone electronic brainstorming tool that runs in the Novell
- environment. EBT does NOT require installation on a file server to run.
-
- to get EBT:
- 1. Anonymous ftp to: omnigate.clarkson.edu
- 2. Change into the /pub/gsstools directory.
- 3. Get the EBT file there. At this point it is the only thing in the
- directory.
-
- It is in a self-extracting zipped file with a three or four page "user' guide."
- I think you should be able to get it up and running in less than a half hour.
- The entire program consists of two small executable files.
- You can run it from a floppy disk, pc
- hard disk or the file server hard disk.
-
- EBT can be run in either anonymous or non-anonymous mode. The difference
- between the two, not surprisingly, is that in non-anonymous mode the user is
- initially prompted for their name, and that name then appears to the left of
- any contributions they make in the public window of all participants screens.
- In either mode, however, the researcher can track the orginator of any ideas
- by the unique identifier (based on the network address of the user's machine).
-
- This has to be considered a "beta" version. It works fine on our ethernet
- network here, and theoretically it should work on any network hardware
- standard (Token Ring, Arcnet, etc.) that runs Novell, but I can't be really
- certain of it until people try it out.
-
- It may lack some of the polish of commercial products, but the price is right!
-
- If you give it a try, please let me know how it works for you. We are working
- on a new and improved version and are open to incorporating suggestions into
- that version.
-
-
- eVote
- -----
- From: evote@netcom.com (Marilyn Davis)
- Subject: eVote 1.0 Developer's Kit
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 02:58:09 GMT
-
- For Linux Programmers only:
-
- Developer's Kit for eVote
- =========================
- ------>>> by ftp <<<-----
-
- * * * ftp site: ftp.netcom.com
- * * login: anonymous / your email address
- * directory: /ftp/pub/ev/evote/linux
- files: eVote.bin.tar.gz
- eVote.source.tar.gz
- README
-
- You get: 1. Three eVote binaries:
-
- * eVote_Clerk - vote-server - expires Jan, 1996.
- * eVote_Demo - user-interface
- * eVote - command center
-
- 2. Source code for the user-interface.
-
- 3. The eVote Programmer's Manual - complete instructions
- for groupware developers in 134 pages of device-
- independent (manual.dvi) or post script (manual.PS)
- format.
-
- * Architecture/Overview - 2 diagrams.
- * Installing eVote
- * Administration
- * Embedding eVote
- * Altering the User Interface
- * API Reference
- * Careful Index
-
- Features
-
- * User-defined polls.
-
- * Three vote-types: PRIVATE - for secret votes
- PUBLIC - for a show of hands
- IF-VOTED - for who-voted but not how-voted
-
- * Two vote-styles: Yes/No
- Numeric
-
- * Single and Grouped votes. An example of a "Grouped" vote is,
- "Distribute 20 votes over the next 10 items".
-
- * Three vote states: Open - vote is open and tallies appear.
- Unseen - vote is open and tallies don't appear.
- Closed - vote is closed and tallies appear.
-
- * User-driven schema evolution.
-
- * Automatic data compression and backups with no down-time.
-
- FULL LICENSE
-
- The license for The Clerk, the underlying vote-server, runs out on
- January 1, 1996. Your Clerk won't run at all after January 1, 1997.
-
- Send $80 US for a fully-licensed run-forever Clerk with your own Serial
- Number. This gives each of your users a voice in the global eVoting
- community.
-
- Frontier Systems --------------------- eVote - online voting software
- 3790 El Camino Real, #147
- Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
- (415) 493-3631 --- eVote@netcom.com --- Software Author
-
-
- Groupware Administration and Registration
- -----------------------------------------
- Re: Groupware Administration and Registration
- Date: 4 Apr 91 01:14:27 GMT
- From: bannon@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com (Tom Bannon)
- Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
-
- > * apprising network users of the existence of running conferences
- > * allowing users access control to these conferences (ie, joining,
- > leaving, etc.)
- > * performing other administrative function including conference
- > initiation, termination, security functions, scheduling, etc.
- >
- > ("Conference" means instance of running groupware application to me).
- >
-
- I've written a paper and constructed a couple of prototypes dealing EXACTLY
- with this problem. The paper is:
-
- group: A Distributed Group Specification and Management Service
- Thomas J. Bannon and Ivor P. Page
- Proceedings of the Summer 1990 UKUUG Conference, pp. 61-76
- ISBN 0 9513181 7 9
-
- UKUUG stands for United Kingdom Unix User's Group
-
-
- Appointment Schedulers
- ----------------------
- From: dws@margay.cs.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Appointment Scheduler
- Date: 1 Sep 92 23:23:49 GMT
- Organization: UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center
-
- Here is a summary of the replies people sent me, organized by package
- name.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: ALL-IN-1
- Env: ?
- Maker: DEC
-
- ~From: Dave Bell <bell@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
-
- [...] look at the shared diary facilities provided by tools
- such as ALL-IN-1 (from Digital) which does the diary checking
- for meetings.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Calendar Manager
- Env: SunOS (OpenWindows 3.0)
- Maker: Sun
-
- ~From: Bruce Barnett <barnett@alydar.crd.ge.com>
-
- Only runs on a Sun, but any X server can display it.
-
- ~From: Nannette Simpson <Nannette.Simpson@Eng.Sun.COM>
-
- Sun has a reasonable calendaring program called Calendar
- Manager which runs over the network and allows users to share
- calendars. It comes bundled with the DeskSet.
-
- ~From: Lee Richardson <lcr@ISI.EDU>
-
- The Sun application cm (Calendar Manager) would seem to address
- this in a reasonable way, for Sun stations using Sun
- Openwindows.
-
- ~From: Charles Tarzian <ct@east.hudtech.com>
-
- It does exactly what you're looking for. To use it in a
- multiple vendor environment buy X server software for your Macs
- and PC's and set up accounts for those users on the Sun. The
- Sun server becomes your mail and calendar server.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Calendar Tool
- Env: SunOS (OpenWindows 3.0)
- Maker: Sun
-
- ~From: Lou Bershad <lrb@cadre.com>
-
- It lets you view a merged schedule and add appointments to
- multiple calendars and/or you can send e-mail to the
- attendees. If you choose to let others add their own
- appointments (which we do, because it has a bug where
- appointments scheduled by others do not have alarms associated
- with them), then if they are using the Sun mail tool they can
- drag the e-mail message and drop it into the calendar tool and
- it schedules the meeting for them directly.
-
- ~From: Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>
-
- The latest version of calentool in Sun's OpenWindow environment
- will merge several calendars so you can see when there is an
- open time slot.
-
- ~From: Peter Loeffler <loeffler@pauke.zfe.siemens.de>
-
- Its a group calendar with a graphical visualisation for
- browsing multiple calendars of colleagues.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Caucus
- Env: "Many, from PCs to Mainframes"
- Maker: Camber-Roth
- A Division of Aule-Tek, Inc. Telephone: (518) 273-0983
- 1223 Peoples Avenue Fax: (518) 276-6380
- Troy, New York 12180 E-Mail: info@aule-tek.com
-
- ~From: Jim Tremblay <tremblay@aule-tek.com>
-
- Caucus organizes your input as on-line group meetings or
- private messages.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Clockwise
- Env: "Unix"
- Maker: Phase II sofware corporation
- 238 Broadway
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139-1926
- (800) 735 2557.
-
- ~From: Francois Schiettecatte <francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>
-
- You can schedule events (using resources such as conference
- rooms, etc) with multiple people. I will notify people by
- email. It will also manage conflicts, etc.
-
- ~From: bob <bob@teamate.UUCP>
-
- Tell them MMB sent you.
-
- ~From: Wayne Lyle <sjuphil!wlyle@uu.psi.com>
-
- Not real sophisicated but it does the trick. A new release is
- coming out soon to make group scheduling easier. The price is
- reasonable, a couple hundred dollars for enough tokens to run a
- resonable sized office (a token is needed for each concurrent
- user). We have a 45 user licence that seems to easily cover an
- office of about 250 people.
-
- The interface is what appeals to us the most, since it can be
- run from any terminal or from a GUI. Most of the ones I have
- seen only run from the GUI, and having 200+ terminals makes
- these programs useless. Not saying this is the best thing but
- at least it does the trick for us.
-
- They have a pretty good demo policy, for $50 you get a timed
- full working copy.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Meeting Maker
- Env: Mac, Windows (soon)
- Maker: ON Technology
- on.tech@applelink, (617) 876-0900
-
- ~From: Tim Stephens <stephens@concert.net>
-
- ON will send you a demo (good for a month) suitable for 25
- users. This product will also schedule rooms/resources for
- you, and attach text documents/agendas to meeting proposals.
-
- ~From: Peter Calingaert <pc@cs.unc.edu>
-
- Investigate MeetingMaker for networked Macintoshes.
-
- ~From: Jeff Cantwell <cantwell@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
-
- Meeting Maker for the Macintosh is a very nice program, is easy
- to use, and has lots of features.
-
- ~From: Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>
-
- On Technology sells a program called Meeting Maker for the
- Macintosh that exactly addresses your question.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Office Vision
- Env: IBM mainframes
- Maker: IBM
-
- ~From: Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>
-
- IBM's Office Vision product offers a calendar with similar
- functionality [to other group calendar programs], but it is
- only available for mainframes.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Name: Synchronize
- Env: SunOS 4.1.x systems under Motif, at least (possibly others)
- Maker: CrossWind Technologies
- 6630 Highway 9, Suite 201
- Felton, CA 95018
-
- ~From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov>
-
- It seems to do a very good job of integrating individual
- schedules and groups with meetings, etc.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: sanjiv@cse.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:46:19 GMT
-
- A good compilation of lists has already been posted by David Sanderson. I just
- thought of pointing out a PD package called appt which runs under Unix (does
- not require X windows). I just checked the archie server and it seems to be
- available on five sites. However, if someone sends me mail, I can send it out
- to you as well. I use it to keep track of my appointments.
-
- Sanjiv
- --
- Sanjiv K. Bhatia Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
- sanjiv@redbird.umsl.edu University of Missouri -- St. Louis
- voice: (314)-553-6520 8001 Natural Bridge Road
- St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: fredw@fred1.demon.co.uk (Fred Weil)
- Subject: Re: Calendar managers: no interaction standard
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 11:56:35 +0000
-
-
- UNIX products that do calendaring:-
-
- UNIPLEX Version 7 from UNIPLEX
-
- Synchronize from CrossWinds (may be X.Windows only)
-
- Cliq from Quadratron
-
- Office Power from ICL
-
- If you want to extend to X.Windows
-
- UNIPLEX onGO
-
- Synchronize
-
- Aster*x
-
-
- Group Calendar/Scheduling
- -------------------------
- From: obrecht@imagen.com (Doug Obrecht)
- Subject: Group Calendar/Scheduling S/W
- Date: 11 Feb 94 21:02:15 GMT
-
- QUESTION:
-
- Does anyone know if there is a group scheduling shareware package that
- operates under UNIX (X/openwin/etc) and PC's (DOS or Windows).
- available on the net? We would like to keep track of and monitor meeting
- times amoung 40 or so people.
-
- If there are no shareware packages available, how about commercial packages?
-
- ============================================================
- The following are addresses and phone numbers for companies mentioned
- in the responses.
-
- Uniplex Integration Systems, Inc.
- 600 E. Las Colinas Blvd., Suite 1400
- Irving, TX 75039
- 800-356-8063; 214-556-0106
-
- CrossWind Technologies, Inc.
- 6630 Hwy. 9, Suite 201
- Felton, CA 95018
- 408-335-4988
-
- ICL, Inc.
- PO Box 19593, 9801 Muirlands Blvd.
- Irvine, CA 92713
- 714-855-5500
-
- Quadratron Systems, Inc.
- 31368 Via Colinas, Suite 108
- Westlake Village, CA 91362
- 818-865-6655
-
- Russell Information Sciences, Inc.
- 115 Columbia, Suite 100
- Laguna Hills, CA 92656
- 714-362-4000
-
- Phase II Software Corp.
- 21-G Olympia Ave., Suite 20
- Woburn, MA 01801
- 800-735-2557; 617-937-0256
-
- On Technology Corporation
- 1 Cambridge Center, Kendall Square
- Cambridge, MA 02142
- 800-548-8871; 617-374-1400
-
-
- CaLANdar product
- ----------------
- From: Andrew Wolff <dreww@microsys.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Needed: Office Scheduling Program for MAC & PC network
- Date: 17 Mar 1995 17:36:08 GMT
-
- I work for Microsystems Software - the makers of CaLANdar - the group
- and enterprise wide scheduler. We have native client support for
- DOS, Windows and MAC.
-
- While we are always working on new releases, we have been spending a
- lot of effort improving the MAC client to support many of the native
- MAC UI features.
-
- If you would like more info, send e-mail to:
- info@microsys.com
- or call us at: 508-879-9000
-
-
- ====================================================================
-
-
- David S. Stodolsky Euromath Center University of Copenhagen
- david@euromath.dk Tel.: +45 38 33 03 30 Fax: +45 38 33 88 80 (C)
-