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To: Wolff who wrote (4012)	4/23/2000 9:07:00 PM
From: Wolff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6847

April 17, 2000 Palm-Latitude Deal Puts Meetings In Hand -- ONLINE MEETINGS SPECIALIST TO MAKE A VERSION OF WEB-CONFERENCING SOFTWARE FOR PALM VII PAUL MCDOUGALL at InformationWeek Online meetings specialist Latitude Communications Inc. says it will make a version of its Web conference-management software available for Palm Inc.'s Palm VII wireless personal digital assistant later this year. Latitude's application, Mobile MeetingPlace, will let sales managers and other executives who manage Palm-equipped road warriors keep tabs on their field teams and, if need be, quickly summon them to a virtual conference via E-mail. The software works with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. It's designed to notify users automatically of such details as meeting times, scheduling updates, and dial-in instructions. Using the system, a group leader can schedule a quick-response meeting, automatically notifying all participants. By clicking a "Join Meeting" icon, recipients of such E-mails generate a call to their cell phones and are automatically logged on to the meeting. "It takes over a lot of the functions of what you would otherwise have to have an administrative person doing," Latitude VP of product development Steve Pao says. Users also can access conferences via Latitude's MeetingPlace 2000 and MeetingPlace Web desktop software. The latter lets virtual conference-goers join a session and have their browsers automatically pointed to a live video meeting, related multimedia screens, and other supporting material. Latitude customer Kelly Dwyer, CIO at Mercer Management Consulting in Boston, says he's considering upgrading his field force to Palm VIIs running Mobile MeetingPlace. "It's not the be-all and end-all, but it can be another tool we can use to help make our staff as connected as possible." Currently, Mercer is using Latitude's MeetingPlace 2000 and MeetingPlace Web products. "The alternative to all this is that you have an assistant set up the conferences, which is more expensive and time consuming," Dwyer says. Analysts say they're not surprised that Latitude is targeting Palm users with its collaborative meeting software. "It's a logical evolution for them, going from the desktop to the mobile device," says Dana Gardner, research director at Aberdeen Group. Gardner adds, however, that such applications are still in their infancy. "The interface on the Palm is limited," he says, "but we have to take these baby steps before we can get to fully wireless collaboration." Mobile MeetingPlace will be available in the third quarter. Company officials say the deal with Palm isn't exclusive and that Latitude may at some point introduce a version for competing products, such as mobile devices powered by Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. Latitude officials say enterprisewide deployments of MeetingPlace, including Mobile MeetingPlace, typically start at about $100,000.

To: Wolff who wrote (4012)	4/23/2000 11:06:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 6847

Hello Wolff, I want to thank you for posting this article, which I can only assume is your acknowledgement of my skills at analysis. ;-) I'm guessing that you are now working to reinforce the fact that the cell phones will lead the march as the "PC-Companion" of choice, over the silly little Palm thing that you talk so much about. Oh wait ... now you posted about Palm today ... right? And now you are saying that it will be cell phones? Hmmm ... are you working to provide information? Or are you simply posting to see yourself post? Or are you actually paid to post this stuff? Lets see ... Lesson #1, Lesson #2, and Lesson #3 ... wow ... you must be making good money at this bashing! anatomyofbasher.netfirms.com Scott C. Lemon