Will today's document-conferencing products stand the test of time? Unless one of these systems becomes dominant enough to establish a de facto standard, industry standards committees will be needed to fill the void.
T.120 is the standard proposed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to facilitate interoperability of different vendors' document-conferencing products. It's an evolving specification offering guidelines on key aspects of document-conferencing technology, including domains in which conferences can occur, document-conferencing protocols, conference management protocols, and network interfaces. T.120 primarily addresses whiteboarding and file transfer considerations. Applications sharing is not c
urrently a part of the specification.
Though none of the programs in this evaluation comply with T.120, many of the vendors plan to support it in the near future. AT&T plans to add T.120 to Vistium Share eventually. Intel (ProShare Premier Edition) and Future Labs (TalkShow) plan to do so by early next year.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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