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UG: Phoenix OS/2 Society Meeting, Mar 10: Getting your small business on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Esther Schindler)
Tue Mar 10 02:18:45 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 02 Mar 1998 13:10:00 -0500
From: esther@bitranch.com (Esther Schindler)
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Nearly every member of the Phoenix OS/2 Society has an Internet
connection. However, many of us have setups that look like a Rube
Goldberg contraption, with individual Internet connections that don't
necessarily make the best use of the small business' resources. Plus,
when it's time to upgrade the business from client dial-up accounts,
the process becomes a complex and expensive one.
The March general meeting of the Phoenix OS/2 Society, on Tuesday,
March 10, welcomes a vendor that promises a solution. Chris Polos,
from Whistle Communications, will be showing off the company's major
product, the InterJet.
The Inter-what?
The Whistle InterJet is an all-in-one solution that provides email,
Web access and Web publishing productivity for everyone in your small
office of up to 100 people. To get your network of computers up and
running on the Internet, simply plug in a phone line and your Ethernet
LAN into the back of the InterJet. Through a Whistle-Authorized
Internet Service Provider (ISP), the InterJet automatically configures
itself and eliminates the need for any complicated system setup. The
InterJet is easily upgradeable, providing a range of bandwidth
capacity from 33.6Kbps to ISDN and Frame Relay (56Kbps to full T1
speeds).
Email: The InterJet handles all your email, both within your office
and over the Internet. This allows you to quickly and easily
communicate with other employees in your company as well as with your
customers, business partners and vendors.
Web Access: The InterJet gives every employee in your company full
networked Internet access to take full advantage of the World Wide
Web.
Web Publishing: The InterJet comes with a built-in web server for both
Internet and Intranet web publishing. With the bundled HTML editor,
Claris Home Page, you can publish and update the latest information to
your customers and co-workers with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Security: The InterJet has built-in firewall security to keep people
out of your important data and give you complete control over who can
access that data.
System Administration: Connecting your office computers to the
InterJet is straightforward. From the InterJet's web browser-based
administration program, it's remarkably easy to set up user accounts
for every person in your office. All you have to do is type in a name
and password and click on the services you want each user to have.
That's it!
Easy to set up, easy to use: The InterJet was designed to make the
Internet work for you instead of you working for it. Via its
auto-configuration process, the InterJet takes all the stress out of
installation.
All this, and OS/2 support too?!
Well, it's not perfect. At this point, you need a Macintosh or Windows
95 system to set up and configure the InterJet. But it works just fine
with OS/2 -- and your OS/2-based office. Have TCP/IP, will travel!
If you want to learn more about the InterJet before the meeting, or if
you can't attend but are interested in finding out more, head over to
http://www.whistle.com.
When and where
The general meeting is at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 10, at the Mountain
Preserve Reception Center, 1431 East Dunlap. The "random access" Q&A
session starts at 6:30pm. We're sure to reconvene after the meeting at
Coyote Springs.
The Phoenix OS/2 Society is a worldwide user group, with members in
nearly every U.S. state and on almost every continent (anybody know
some OS/2 users in Antarctica?). Membership includes a subscription to
the largest English-language print publication devoted to OS/2,
general meetings, special interest groups, product discounts on OS/2
software, a private discussion group, and the knowledge that your
voice makes a difference.
If you want more information about the Phoenix OS/2 Society, or to
request a sample issue of its award-winning magazine, _extended
attributes_, please visit http://www.possi.org.
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