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Radnet, Inc. To Ship WebShare Next Week; Dynamic Groupware Solution and Rapid Application Development Platform for the Web Allows Users to Quickly and Easily Create, Deploy and Use Web-based Groupware; Live WebShare Installation and Demo at a Media Briefing on June 18th at PC Expo.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1996--Radnet, Inc. today announced that it is will ship its WebShare(TM) Web-based groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data.  next week, in conjunction with PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than .

WebShare is the first groupware solution and rapid application development platform built on open, standard technologies of the World Wide Web.

"With WebShare, companies can gain the paybacks from using groupware to improve corporate information flow and productivity almost immediately," said Ed Fredkin, president of Radnet. "WebShare allows companies to easily roll out customized groupware solutions by taking advantage of their Intranet infrastructure and the World Wide Web. In fact, WebShare's standards-based architecture is so robust that we added significant new features during the beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the  process and still are shipping the product two weeks ahead of schedule."

WebShare will be installed and demonstrated on an NT server live at a special media briefing during the PC Expo trade show, Tuesday, June 18th, 11:30 a.m. in Room 1E17, Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
. WebShare will also be demonstrated in Radnet's booth -- No. 1438 -- from June 18-20 during the show.

With WebShare, organizations can easily and quickly create, deploy and use groupware applications that intelligently share information -- both within workgroups, and in larger groups with wide geographic dispersion. WebShare makes it easy and affordable for corporate Web developers and webmasters, ISVs and resellers to quickly create customized groupware applications for Web-based Internet and Intranet deployment. With WebShare, organizations can gain immediate groupware benefits, such as improved productivity, without having to modify their networks or distribute, install and maintain complex client software. Instead, WebShare runs on a standard Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking.  system, and users access their groupware applications via their favorite Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. .

WebShare gives developers the ability to quickly and easily create groupware applications that share document-oriented information in an intelligent way. As a result, large and small teams alike can share knowledge and expertise, keep track of items or issues, communicate across geographic and time boundaries, collaborate to solve problems, or keep team members updated on the status of projects.

Users can easily submit files to electronic libraries of product literature, sales presentations, diagrams and photos, so people have the vital information they need to do their jobs. WebShare uses SQL SQL
 in full Structured Query Language.

Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results.
 to store its data, making it easy to integrate WebShare applications with data stored in other SQL databases. WebShare consists of two stand-alone products:

WebShare Designer -- provides all product functionality needed to create, test and demo customized groupware applications. This includes a visual programming environment, a copy of Sybase SQL Anywhere This article or section is written like an .
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 database, Spyglass Web server, a developer's edition of WebShare server which allows up to three users, eight full-featured applications and the source code that enables developers to customize applications for specific needs. WebShare Designer will be available for Windows NT 3.51 platforms at a list price of $695.

WebShare Server -- provides the same eight full-featured applications found in the Designer, plus server software that enables wide spread deployment via Web-based Internet and Intranet connections. It also includes a robust set of industry standard security features, including RSA encryption (cryptography, algorithm) RSA encryption - A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials.

The RSA algorithm works as follows.
, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data.  (Secure Socket Library) and Verisign digital certificate authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC.

(2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network.
 software. WebShare Server will be available for Windows NT 3.51 platforms at a list price of $1,495.

Trial versions of WebShare Designer and WebShare Server will be downloadable from the Radnet Web site at www.radnet.com as of June 18, 1996. WebShare Media Briefing/Demo for Press and Analysts at PC Expo You are invited to join Radnet, its WebShare customers and development partners for a media briefing with demos and luncheon, to be held at PC Expo in New York New York, state, United States
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.

The demo will stress how easy it is to gain immediate, affordable productivity benefits from WebShare applications. Like 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. , WebShare helps companies increase productivity by creating groupware applications that intelligently share information. But unlike other products, WebShare is so easy to set up that we will install a system live during the Press Briefing. Come see sophisticated groupware applications deployed in minutes, rather than months. -0-
Description:   Radnet, Inc. WebShare briefing, at PC Expo,
                New York
Where:         Jacob Javits Center, Room No. 1E17
When:          June 18, 1995; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers:      Ed Fredkin, Radnet President and CEO
               Andrew Ressler, Radnet Vice President of R&D and
                CTO
               Reed P.M. Sturtevant, Radnet Vice President of
                Sales and Marketing
               Darlene A. Ressler, Radnet Vice President and COO
               And Guest Speakers-0-


TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT, email or call Brenda Nichols at: Parker, Nichols & Company at 508/369-2100 or email: bnichols@parker-nichols.com.

Founded in 1995, Radnet, Inc. develops WebShare, the first family of Web browser-based groupware products for corporate Intranets and the Internet. The company's mission is to offer powerful, easy-to-use groupware products that take advantage of Intranets and Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical
Historically important browsers
In order of release:
  • WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
  • Erwise, April 1992
  • ViolaWWW, May 1992, see Erwise
. Groupware applications created with WebShare quickly and easily meet the needs of organizations to improve productivity and share vital information.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation).
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.
, Radnet is located at 58 Charles St., Cambridge, MA 02141, and can be reached at 617/577-9422, via fax at 617/577-9377 or on the Web at http://www.radnet.com. -0-

Note to Editors: Radnet, Inc. and WebShare are trademarks of Radnet, Inc. All other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Parker, Nichols & Company, Inc.

Brenda Nichols, 508/369-2100

E-mail: bnichols@parker-nichols.com
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