Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!bbn.com!diamond.bbn.com!hlison
From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Anybody know a good conferencing facility for UNIX
Message-ID: <14348@silica.BBN.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 14:49:40 GMT
References: <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <1438@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: BBN Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 35

cyoes@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Cissy Yoes) writes:

>In article <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk
>(Thomas Rodden) writes:
>|> 
>|> 
>|> We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a 
>|> number of different departments in the university to cooperate using
>|> some form of CSCW technology.  It was felt a good starting point might 
>|> be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university.
>|> Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our
>|> UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable
>|> but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial
>|> systems.

>I do not have any personal experience with any of the following systems, but 
>thought these leads might be helpful in your search--

(lots of stuff deleted)

You might also look into the BBN/Slate package, which runs on Sun
workstations, the new IBM RS workstations and the DecStation running
Ultrix.  It is available in both Sunview and X-WIndow versions.
BBN/Slate is a multimedia document communications and conferencing
system, designed to run over both local and wide-area networks. 
Conferencing can occur between any number of sites which have
TCP/IP connectivity.  Because the system is multimedia, you can
conference over text, graphics, images, spreadsheets, etc.  It is
a very exciting package, and I say so even though I've worked at BBN
the past three years on the system.

For more information, contact Scott Richardson at 617-873-8124, or send
mail to scott@bbn.com.

Herb Lison