May 8, 1995
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
InSoft, Inc., the recognized worldwide leader in
LAN/WAN-attached desktop conferencing, today announced
core membership status into the Personal Conferencing
Work Group (PCWG) industry consortium.
The current core membership include AT&T,
Compression Labs, Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation,
Deutsche Telekom, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ericsson
Business Communications AB, France Telecom, Hewlett
Packard, Intel Corporation, Lotus Development
Corporation, NEC Corporation, Northern Telecom, Novell
Multimedia, Olivetti, Software Publishing Corporation,
VideoServer, VTEL Corporation and WordPerfect
Corporation. PCWG also includes more than 175 Consulting
members affiliated with the desktop conferencing market.
According to Michael Glancy, Director, PCS &
Conferencing Services for Intel, "InSoft is a
valuable addition to PCWG, bringing expertise and
experience in solving interoperability issues across
heterogeneous environments. They have proven expertise in
providing an open development environment for
conferencing applications."
Daniel L. Harple, Jr., Chairman & CEO of InSoft,
said "From its inception, we have always believed
that PCWG has helped our industry in terms of creating
broad acceptance of collaborative computing and desktop
conferencing. Their continuing commitment to define a
common, interoperable architecture for conferencing and
communications for the desktop computing environment,
including UNIX-based systems, is representative and
beneficial to entire user community.
"InSoft's longstanding commitment to standards
will be further extended to address connectivity between
LAN-attached and circuit-switched conferencing systems,
and compatibility with other products," said Harple.
"Through their vision, InSoft has enabled the
collaborative communications industry to take great
strides in the areas of cross-platform interoperability,
application deployment and development tools," said
Ernie DeNigris, Vice President, AT&T WorldWorx
Network Services. "We strongly support InSoft's core
membership, given its commitment to the future of the
industry both from an end-user and application developer
perspective."
All InSoft applications and development tools are
based on the InSoft Digital
Video Everywhere (DVE) software architecture. DVE
enables cross-platform conferencing between Windows-based
PCs, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Digital
Equipment, Silicon Graphics and IBM UNIX workstations;
transparent network connectivity between Ethernet, ATM,
FDDI, Token Ring, Frame Relay, SMDS, ISDN and wireless;
and video interoperability for MJPEG, Indeo, H.261, CellB
and DVE2.
InSoft products include Communique!
for collaborative computing and desktop
videoconferencing; InSoft Network Television (INTV!), for
distributed digital video to the desktop; and OpenDVE, a
collaborative Developer Toolkit for writing
fully-distributed, conferencing-enabled business
applications.
InSoft is a worldwide leader in the technology and
sales of collaborative computing development tools, and
desktop conferencing and distributed digital video
applications. Its products are marketed directly to
commercial and video applications. Its 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,
telemedicine/health care, entertainment, legal,
telecommunications, and a myriad of other information
technology applications.
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