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Inperson has become a popular software product for users of Silicon Graphics Inc. hardware to share files and collaborate on work across distances while video and audioconferencing through workstations. But it's proven useless in heterogeneous environments until now.
SGI has announced it will port the software to other Unix platforms, starting this year with HP/UX and Sparc this year and adding others later. SGI already is working to provide interoperability with PCs using Microsoft Windows by year's end.
"Your telephone is only as good as the number of other people who have them. We don't want to limit InPerson to just users who have SGI workstations," says Jamie Schein, marketing manager for visual communications at SGI in Mountain View, Calif.
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