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Collaboration Tools

Time-out dilleet and all! Trust me, some of us were at one time in our lives, fully immersed in business-level collaboration tools. But the Macintosh has not caught up in regards to support by any of the major players.

Back in the 1999-2000 timeframe, we at 3Cube rolled out a product called PhoneCube that offered Web meetings and real-time desktop sharing that rivals anything offered today.

You can see a demo of it archived at our Web designer's page:
http://www.blacklizard.com/html/work/demos/phonecube/phonecube.html

You can see a Web archive on Archive.org of our Web site:
http://tinyurl.com/9ddnp

We even at one time were the phone conferencing solution for Mac Show Live. Remember that show? I actually made it on there twice to talk about how great our product was for the Macintosh...

Mac Show Asks, "Is The Cube All It's Cracked Up To Be?"
http://www.themacobserver.com/article/2000/10/11.2.shtml

As Blue_Djinn will tell you, I was laid off from 3Cube the day before MacWorld San Francisco in 2001. We still went and saw the show the next morning. Shortly thereafter, 3Cube was absorbed by Oracle in mid-2001, and the tools live on today in the Oracle 10g offerings.

Oracle Collaboration Suite
http://oraclestore.oracle.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=14974

Don't talk to me about WebEx! They still suck!

- louismg