http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1995/Mar/sgi-internezzo.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
"Silicon Graphics is committed to delivering the most advanced interoperable collaborative computing solutions to our customers throughout the UNIX community," said Way Ting, vice president and general manager of Silicon Graphics' Visual Magic Division. "The Internezzo team has an excellent track record in providing cross-platform communications applications. We are pleased that Internezzo will be expanding the reach of the InPerson conferencing package, allowing Silicon Graphics customers to collaborate in heterogeneous environments."
InPerson, a component of Silicon Graphics' collaborative environment, supports interactive communications by providing video and audio conferencing, file sharing and a shared whiteboard. InPerson interoperable solutions give UNIX and PC users the ability to leverage their investments in networked workstations to share text, graphics and data files as easily as they share ideas.
"Having InPerson available as a cross-platform solution will allow all our departments to use its invaluable videoconferencing and whiteboard tools," said Derek Gallar, mechanical engineer and system administrator for Varian Oncology, a division of Varian Associates, in Palo Alto, California. "InPerson is the best way to get people together to look at a model and annotate it. Its shared whiteboard tracks annotations with its built-in feature for saving meeting minutes. You can't do that with a fax, or phone, or any other collaborative technologies."
"Workstation users should be able to communicate interactively using standard hardware and networking technologies, without regard to platform," said Dan Heller, president and CEO of Internezzo Technologies. "InPerson makes a video conference as easy as a phone call, bringing people face to face in a way that will soon become commonplace. Like e-mail and other ubiquitous communication tools, video collaboration must be a cross-platform solution."
Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard ports of the InPerson conferencing will be available in the fourth quarter of 1995 with other UNIX platforms available in 1996. Internezzo also plans to build new, derivative products from core InPerson technology to address vertical market segments.
Internezzo is an independent software vendor based in Greenbrae, California, specializing in cross-platform collaboration solutions. The company was founded by Dan Heller, the creator of the Z-Mail electronic mail application and founder and former President of Z-Code Software, the leading provider of e-mail applications for UNIX operating systems. In March 1994, Z-Code was acquired by Network Computing Devices Inc., and Heller served as Executive Vice President, leading the focus on enterprise messaging. After leaving NCD, Heller founded Internezzo to bring Silicon Graphics' next-generation collaborative computing technologies to wider markets.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing and data server systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical and commercial environments through direct and indirect channels. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Contact: Eileen M. Caetano, 415-390-2036 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
David Newman, 415-461-5171 Internezzo Technologies, Inc.
Silicon Graphics and the Silicon Graphics logo are registered trademarks, and InPerson is a trademark, of Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective companies. Internezzo is a trademark of Internezzo Technologies, Inc.
