February 8, 1995
New York, New York
TASC, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance with
InSoft, Inc. to integrate its advanced image viewer,
ImageShare, with InSoft's Communique! desktop
videoconferencing product. ImageShare enables multiple
users to access and share large images during
collaborative meetings and desktop conferencing sessions.
"We're delighted to join with InSoft in bringing
this unique capability to desktop
videoconferencing," said Jack Holt, TASC President,
in making the announcement. "The solution for
customers in the medical, defense, aerospace, and
engineering markets."
ImageShare has been designed specifically for business
requiring high-speed interactive access to large images
up to a gigabyte in size or more. With ImageShare,
multiple users can concurrently display, zoom, and scroll
images of various types and sizes, such as chest x-rays,
at unparalleled speed. Using ImageShare in Communique!,
users can transfer files or images, displaying them in a
shared White Board space and making changes in real time.
Developed to InSoft's OpenDVE API,
ImageShare will support cross-platform desktop
videoconferencing and run across standard networks, such
as, Ethernet, LANs, WANs, ATM, FDDI, and ISDN.
"The enhanced functionality provided by
ImageShare to the Communique! environment is the
reason we released our collaborative conferencing
architecture," said Daniel L. Harple, Chairman &
CEO, InSoft. "OpenDVE is the only development
environment that enables developers to write
collaborative and conferencing functionality directly
into their applications."
ImageShare general availability will be announced in
the 2nd quarter of 1995. Pricing and licensing terms will
be made available at that time.
InSoft is a worldwide leader in the technology and
sales of collaborative development tools, and desktop
conferencing and distributed digital video applications.
It's products are marketed directly to commercial and
government end-users through leading systems
manufacturers and value-added resellers, for
applications, such as financial services, computer-aided
design, engineering and exploration, health care,
entertainment, legal, telecommunications, and a myriad of
other information technology applications. InSoft, Inc.
is headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
TASC, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Primark
Corporation (NYSE: PMK), provides advanced
information technology solutions for businesses and
governmental agencies throughout the U.S. and worldwide.
Founded in 1966, TASC is headquartered in Reading,
Massachusetts.
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