sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunSolutions Joins Audiographics Consortium SunFLASH Vol 63 #92 March 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63.92 SunSolutions Joins Audiographics Consortium SunSolutions, the video conferencing and collaboration business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced it has joined the Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards (CATS), a non-profit corporation founded to promote the creation of international standards for multipoint audiographics teleconferencing. (99 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SunSolutions Joins the Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards (CATS) Leader in desktop video conferencing to participate in promotion of audiographics conferencing standards CATS was founded in 1993 and has grown quickly to include industry leaders including SunSolutions, AT&T, PictureTel, MCI and Xerox. Audiographics teleconferencing enables users at different locations to create, share, edit and annotate documents and images in real time. The establishment of standards gives users throughout the world the ability to teleconference independent of platform or conferencing products, protecting their investment. "Like the telephone and the facsimile machine, audiographics teleconferencing holds the promise of adoption by all types of users -- from business to education and even in the home," said Bob Gill, CATS chairman. "That promise can be fulfilled as leaders like SunSolutions take the initiative to create industry communications standards that let products from different vendors talk to each other." SunSolutions offers ShowMe(TM) 2.0 software, the industry's first complete, easy to use desktop video conferencing solution that enables workstation users to collaborate with a full range of video, audio, shared applications and whiteboard tools. ShowMe 2.0 began shipping in December 1993 for SPARC(R) systems in the SunSoft Solaris(R) operating environment. Versions of ShowMe software for Hewlett-Packard(R) and IBM(R) workstations and for Intel(R) platforms running Microsoft Windows(R) and Solaris for X86 will be available in 1994. "Our primary goal as a provider of communications solutions is to develop products that are so simple and intuitive to use that they effectively disappear, allowing the user to focus on the work at hand," said Cynthia Walden, marketing manager for SunSolutions. "The work we do as a voting member of CATS protects our customers' teleconferencing investments and allows us to focus on the user -- further enabling desktop communications." SunSolutions, a business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is dedicated to designing, developing and marketing video conferencing and collaboration solutions. The business is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., USA with a European office in Bagshot, UK. The Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards is based in San Ramon, California. ### (c) Sun Microsystems, Sun, the Sun logo, SunSolutions, the SunSolutions logo, SunSoft and the SunSoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other products or services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 62.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909