Hurwitz Consulting Group announces on-line delivery of its premier research newsletter Client/Server Tool Watch: Enabling Cross-Platform Applications.NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1995-- Effective January 1, 1996 Hurwitz Consulting Group, Inc.'s (HCG HCG, hCG human chorionic gonadotropin. HCG abbr. human chorionic gonadotropin Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) ) premier research newsletter, Client/Server Tool Watch: Enabling Cross-Platform Applications, is available electronically via Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . The newsletter will be priced at $7,500 for a global corporate site license. This one fee entitles a company to make Client/Server Tool Watch (CSTW CSTW Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing CSTW Command & Staff Training Wing (Singapore Civil Defence Force) CSTW Commissioning and Setting to Work ) available to all its employees worldwide. Through Lotus Notes, subscribers will have immediate electronic access to CSTW articles on a monthly basis. Electronic subscribers can utilize the full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. capabilities of Lotus Notes and search for articles by product name, company name, publication date, key words or phrases, and other important criteria. Users can also sort the search results into different views and distribute the information to others in their workgroup via Notes' replication feature. The Lotus Notes version of CSTW includes hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links to abstracts of other HCG publications. Client/Server Tool Watch is a monthly research newsletter that evaluates trends, products, and technologies in applications development, middleware, and systems management. For over four years, CSTW has provided its readers with objective, in-depth analysis and advice on the merits on the merits adj. referring to a judgment, decision or ruling of a court based upon the facts presented in evidence and the law applied to that evidence. A judge decides a case "on the merits" when he/she bases the decision on the fundamental issues and considers and drawbacks of emerging tools. Articles are written by HCG consultants who provide industry-leading companies with advice and strategy on emerging technologies. Each month, CSTW reviews a tool that has attracted industry attention and evaluates the product on the basis of the unique Hurwitz Tools Benchmark Methodology, which applies a consistent set of criteria to each product. Two recent CSTW Tool Spotlights include in-depth features on Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft's Visual Basic 4.0. Other monthly components of CSTW include editorials, features, and columns about current trends and future directions in applications development, systems and applications management, middleware, and the Internet (including the World Wide Web). In addition to being available on Lotus Notes, subscriptions of the printed version of Client/Server Tool Watch can be ordered for the annual fee of $347. HCG is a technology assessment, consulting, and publishing company specializing in the emerging market for client/server and distributed applications An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications development, systems and applications management, and cross-platform infrastructures. HCG explores currently available and emerging technologies and their abilities to improve information management. Other HCG services include custom consulting, the Hurwitz BalancedView retainer A contract between attorney and client specifying the nature of the services to be rendered and the cost of the services. Retainer also denotes the fee that the client pays when employing an attorney to act on her behalf. program, and the Technology Assessment Report series. -0- For more information about subscribing to Client/Server Tool Watch on Lotus Notes or other HCG services, call 617-965-6900. CONTACT: Hurwitz Consulting Group, Newton 617/965-6900 |
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