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eSHARE'S EXPRESSIONS 3.0 is a solution for providing live chat and threaded bulletin-board system (BBS) messaging on Web sites. The product includes a chat server, threaded BBS and Web server. Like all of the company's products, no client software download is necessary.
The purpose of the product is to transform flat or otherwise static Internet and corporate intranet sites into dynamic communication and productivity tools. Potential applications could range from online customer and technical support to live product demonstrations to training and conferencing functions. The Test Center looked at a beta version; a shipping version is expected by year's end.
The chat server and a threaded BBS are controlled from a single administration panel that allows an operator to modify a surprising range of options.
Expressions installs as a separate service and serves up chat pages to either a browser or a Java applet (chat rooms also can be accessed through any IRC client).
An external Web server also can be used to serve up HTML pages. This might be necessary when presenting non-HTML pages off a Web server, such as Active Server or Cold Fusion pages. Chat and the BBS still...