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- From: gt0963d@prism.gatech.EDU (Deeptendu Majumder)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps
- Subject: Research Notebook Followup
- Message-ID: <64431@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:44:02 GMT
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: The Dream Chasers Syndicate
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- here is a summary of responses I have received. Bottom line: no
- free lunch :-). I was looking for a tool to help me with my
- dissertation work. Nobody is going to give me the money needed for
- some of these powerful tools. I have been suggested to use WAIS and
- I am going to look into it. I have used XWAIS but I did not know
- that it may configurable for personal uses.
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- Lotus Agenda
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- Virtual Notebook System (VNS) from frofront group (I have there
- name and number)
- CimLink which is designed for a manufacturing notebook
- Interleaf's new product
- FrameMaker with extensions - I have these extensions and
- we have hooked Tcl to framemaker. This allows
- you to customize it and write your own linkage
- methods.
- Rapport from Clarity
- Slate from BBN
- Asterx from Applix
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- The last three products are office suites on unix
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- Microsoft Office with visual basic on a pc.
- Wordperfect office on windows.
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- Virtual Notebook System:
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- The product is sold commercially by The ForeFront Group, Inc. for users
- outside of our research group at Baylor. Send email to sales@ffg.com
- if you are interested in literature and pricing.
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- In any event, FFG can be reached via telephone at 713-790-9051, M-F, 8-5.
-
- Hmmm. Let's see, I think it's **** for each end-user license (think of
- it as a library card allowing you to enter any branch of a metropolitan
- library system), and something on the lines of **** for a server license
- (akin to the charge to create the library and staff it with a librarian).
- A given user can simultaneously access many libraries, and a given server
- can serve many networked users and support many notebooks. (Incidentally,
- the software server does not require a dedicated hardware server; many
- can run on a given machine).
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- I'm sure there is a modest educational discount, 15% seems familiar.
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- d.
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- "Like a harsh neon streaking through the velvet darkness
- the whetted knife of Life tore its path through her Dreams"
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