Groupware: More than Just an Application

Planning

involves designing the system architecture, putting the system intheright environment, setting aside enough resources, and planning for growth. You might also consider hiring an experienced professional as a consultant.

Do: Put a lot of
time and effort into designing the system architecture. Make sure
that management knows that groupware is more than an application.
It is a complex system that requires proper planning and resources. Read the rest of this entry »

Planning is Key to a Successful Implementation

Many of us have come to rely on and live by e-mail. What else would we do if we didn’t have to check tens or hundreds of messages daily? The applications responsible for our e-mail addictions are lumped into a category called groupware, only groupware is much more than e-mail. It is also personal calendaring, group scheduling, task management, document management, workflow, imaging, electronic forms, electronic faxing, electronic discussions and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure PIX Gets Tighter Security

In a recent report, Cisco Systems, Inc. identified a vulnerability in its Secure Pix firewall that could allow a malicious user to bypass SMTP command filtering. The affected component, Mailguard, is a PIX firewall feature that helps supplement the security of SMTP mail servers. Cisco is offering free software upgrades to all affected users. Read the rest of this entry »

I started The Spam Files about a year ago (I know this because I just got the reminder to pay my hosting fee). At the time I was pretty fired-up about spam. As these things go, however, I got a bit bored with the whole subject and posts started to dwindle until they dried-up completely. When I got the reminder I thought “Hey! I’ve got a website just sitting there with a cool domain name and MT already set-up on it – why not use it?” I really don’t want to make it all about spam – there are plenty of sites out there which do the job much better than I ever could. So I’ve decided to turn it into a “Look what I found on the Web/Recieved in my e-mail/Just thought about while I was brushing my teeth” type site. Yeah, I know there are 28,000,000 similar sites lurking on the Innernet, but there’s only one Spam Files!

While the level of VR interactivity increases with the complexity of the system, even a system as modest as a 120MHz Pentium PC is capable of supporting impressive VR applications, Richardson says. “You can’t dismiss the PC as a VR platform,” he says. “With even low-end PCs beginning to possess the power of workstations, you can now construct sophisticated virtual worlds without spending a lot of money.”
Synthonics Technologies Inc. is offering desktop-based VR products that aim to give everyday PC users sophisticated VR modeling capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

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All Together Now
CIO Magazine article on collaborative computing identifies the pathways and pitfalls that mark the route to corporate collaboration, and looks at the Notes vs. Intranet debate.

Professional Webmaster Forum
Explore issues like “What are webmasters? What do they do? What kind of skills do they need? What do they earn?” with the staff of WebMaster and a panel of experts.

Intranet Soundings
A message exchange focused on the Intranet. Lots of interesting discussions taking place.

The Intranet Exchange
A moderated message exchange dedicated to the Intranet.

MIS Collaboratory
A global forum for discussion of MIS issues, ideas, and research papers run by the Center For Information Systems Management in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Some discussion on intranets.

Intranet Development
The transcript of an online discussion held on January 2, 1997 on boston.com, hosted by Richard Seltzer, with several developers participating.