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February 15, 1999
Collaboration On The WebLotus' QuickPlace will let users share documents and work on them together
By Amy K. Larsen
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otus Development Corp. next month will ship a Web collaboration package designed to let
workers in different locations use the Internet to share documents and work on them
simultaneously.QuickPlace is an inexpensive alternative to intranet groupware packages such as Notes, Lotus says. It's designed to use the Web to set up document libraries for nonspecialized, short-term projects. The package is installed and run over the Web for access with browsers. It includes typical components of groupware, such as document sharing, document libraries, and calendaring.
"Every project has its own core information store," says James Kobielus, an analyst with the Burton Group, an IT consulting firm. "This is a stripped-down groupware app for companies that need to get that document library online in a hurry."
QuickPlace includes easy development tools that let users build online document libraries without extensive training. It comes with an HTML editor so users can create HTML documents without doing any coding themselves.
"QuickPlace gives us real rapid application development," says Francis Poeta, president of P&M Computers, a Cliffside, N.J., integrator that's using a beta of the application for project communications between consultants and customers working in different locations on the East Coast. QuickPlace is helping consultants run short-term projects more efficiently, Poeta says. It has quality-of-life benefits as well, he says, letting users keep on top of projects even when they're off-site.
Lotus will offer a number of packaging options. Customers can get QuickPlace through service providers such as America Online, or they can buy it and run it as part of an intranet or extranet.
A standalone copy will be priced at $995; individual client licenses will be $40.
Lotus will also bundle QuickPlace with its forthcoming Notes release 5 client. Users don't have
to run Notes to use QuickPlace, but if they do, they can tie in release 5 features.
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