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From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (With friends like these, who needs hallucinations) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
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Date: 2 Jan 90 20:50:36 GMT
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In article <129710@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> prohaska@sun.UUCP (J.R. Prohaska) writes:
>-- very desirable piece of groupware, a mechanism for achieving consensus
>-- of a large group by considering in an orderly manner all pertinent
>-- points of view with machine assistance.

Actually, that scene from David's Sling reminded me of descriptions
the CoLAB project at Xerox PARC. I had assumed that what's being
called GroupWare was something similar to that: simultaneous, shared
access to a hypertext structure with a WYSIWES (What You See Is What
Everyone Sees) component.

I've since been told that what's currently being sold as "groupware"
more resembles RCS or SCCS on Unix.

Could someone (several someones, probably) post descriptions of some
of the currently available "groupware"?

	Thanx,
	<mike
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