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From: malc@unrvax.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: ``Office Automation'' under Unix?
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Date: 27 Mar 90 19:18:04 GMT
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Reply-To: malc@unrvax.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
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Has anyone out there had experience with any "office automation" systems
running on Unix machines?  I'm thinking along the lines of something like
DEC's All-In-One, perhaps a bit less ostentatious.  The two main facilities
that are being sought are email (piece o' cake) and some sort of calendar/
scheduling system, not unlike what I'm told appears in WordPerfect's
office automation system.

I suspect we could write our own "office automation system" without too
much trouble, using existing lower-level facilities, but I'd be interested
in the opinions and experiences of others in this area.  Again, we'd be wanting
to run this on a Unix machine.  The machine we have in mind is running 4.3 BSD,
though we could also run this on a medium-size Sun that's here.  We're
currently awaiting a call back from Sun on this (we're also waiting to hear
back from DEC on an Ultrix version of All-In-One, though we don't currently
have a large Ultrix machine we'd be running it on.)  Be nice if we found a
decent PD one though...

Please respond via email and I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,


Malcolm L. Carlock              Internet:  malc@unrvax.unr.edu
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