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Foil 7 Near Term Activities for Tango-Interactive

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Tango can be downloaded freely from http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango
  • 50 downloads a week; 20% of these servers
Upgrade core technology in areas such as browser independence, security, multiple community support, archiving
Enable broader deployment of Tango-Interactive
  • Improve User Support and documentation .....
So what is the problem?
  • We are "just" a University research group supporting software built on top of wonderful web technology (e.g. browsers) which have bugs and change rapidly
  • e.g. it appears that Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 will win browser war
  • Many PC's/workstations have mis-installed or mediocre multimedia subsystems
Focus Tango? e.g.Tango2 will only support fully Internet Explorer?
Package Tango with hardware (multimedia PC) as complete collaborative stations?
  • Recommended hardware lists .......



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