bob@teamate.UUCP (bob) (05/24/91)
[seems to be some more interest so I thought I'd post again] TEAMate is a commercial product that has been sold since 1985. Our market is government, corporations and information providers. TEAMate is currently available for SUN, AT&T 3B, IBM RS/6000, HP-UX, DEC (ULTRIX) and the 386/486 Intel platforms. Prices start at $1500 for the Intel platform (4 user license with content retrieval) and go up to $25,000 (we're not so big with the hobbyist market for this version). TEAMate uses an "outline" with topics as the basic way of organizing information (a topic can be directly mapped to a news group). A topic in TEAMate can have one or more "entries" (pieces of data). An entry has many components including a piece of text, multiple attachments, keywords, author, read-by-list, etc., etc. The outline can be created interactively and reorganized interactively (just point at a topic and say move, all subtopics will go along). TEAMate has its own mail system with gateways. Facilities exist for various types of "conferences" including asynch (deferred and chat types). Full content indexing is supported as is a transaction format for loading/unloading data. The full screen TEAMate interface is driven by screens which may be customized (the screen "source" is delivered). In general TEAMate is very open so new commands can be added, etc. We are working on the interface between news and TEAMate so that newsgroups can be mapped to TEAMate topics and new postings and mail handled. It is not difficult as we have the transaction processor so we can handle pretty easily, however, commercial pressures are holding us back at the moment (customers want other things and are willing to pay). We anticipate having it done by the end of June. We have sales materials that I'd be pleased to send out if you send me a mailing address or you can just call up our demo system if you'd like. To access the demo system call (213) 318-5302 (8N1) use VT100 emulation and the login of public (no password required). Bob Baskerville (MMB) VOICE 800-632-6022 -- MMB Development Corporation, 904 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 "The TEAMate UNIX BBS for SUN, DEC, IBM, AT&T, HP and INTEL" VOICE: (213) 318-1322 or bob@teamate.uunet.uu.net