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D -- DISTRIBUTION SOURCE FOR JAVA-BASED REMOTE DOCUMENT SERVER (RDS) SOFTWARE DUE 103098 POC Philip C. Pulver, Contractor -- 509-943-0656 Fax WEB: Click here for further information and an on-line demonstration, http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/rds/rds.html. E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail the contact for this notice., pc_pulver@pnl.gov. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is conducting a survey to identify potential licensees for the marketing, distribution and/or further development of the Java-based Remote Document Server (RDS) software developed by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for the Department of Energy. The EMSL Remote Document Server is a new software application designed to facilitate desktop collaboration and multiple authoring between users of different and/or remote computing platforms. RDS enables users to remotely share and collaborate on documents via the Internet or via a private network. It is written in 100% Java (Version 1.1.6 of Sun's JDK), and runs either as a stand-alone desktop application on any Java 1.1 enabled machine, or within any Java 1.1 enabled Web browser. RDS is currently deployable on most platforms including Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh and most versions of UNIX. The RDS software consists of two parts: the back-end document server, and the client-side browser. The document server sits on any machine and acts as a database for users' documents, storing and retrieving all types of files. The client-side browser enables the users to access the database, and provides them with the ability to upload, download and view documents on their local client machine. All user interactions take place using the familiar icon-based modern GUI methodologies, e.g., displaying documents as interactive icons in a window. RDS has important features that aid in the collaborative authoring of documents. These include remote or local access control to documents, record locking management, a view-only window option, edit-history recording, and inter-operability. The principal author of a document can quickly set access control and privileges to determine who else is allowed to co-author, delete, rename or just read the document. User directories can be made accessible that allows users to quickly view files of other authors. Emailing is also built into the document browser to further facilitate collaboration between authors. A detailed description of this software product is available at the Internet address provided. Interested and qualified firms should respond in writing, postmarked, emailed or faxed no later than October 30th, 1998. Posted 09/27/98 (W-SN254972). (0270)

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