Welcome to the wonderful world of UNIX based multimedia E-mail!
UltraCom Incorporated is proud to introduce a new dimension
in electronic communication with our state-of-the-art
"UltraCom Personal Media Pilot (TM)"
ABSTRACT:
The UltraCom Personal Media Pilot is much more than an advanced
email program. The Personal Media Pilot goes beyond electronic
mail, to providing a "personal" multimedia environment.
HILITES:
* DOCUMENT SCANNING storage & retrieval
* VIDEO frame capture & playback services
* AUDIO track capture & playback services
* Powerful COMPOSITION features allowing
"desktop publishing like" multimedia email
& presentation compositon / creation.
* MIME level 1.0 compliant email services
* Interface to 3rd party relational databases
* Interface to 3rd party FAX services (UltraCom
will provide these built-in features, in the form
of a free update to licensees of Release 2.1 of
the UltraCom Personal Media Pilot, in the future.)
FUNCTIONS:
* Send and receive UltraCom "Media-Grams (TM)",
Multimedia compositions which can include any
combination of:
- scanned images
- audio recordings (8 and 16 bit)
- video frames
- text files
- postscript charts and graphs from your favorite packages
- MIME level 1.0 email messages
- X bitmaps & window/screen images
* Build multimedia presentations
BUSINESS USE & ULTRACOM PERSONAL MEDIA PILOT ADVANTAGE:
* Unsurpassed and Impressive Corporate Communications / Information Distribution
* Improved executive/employee, employee/employee and employee/customer
communication.
* Improved productivity by improved information access and exchange.
* Improved accuracy and use of elecronic mail.
ADVANCED CAPABILITIES:
The UltraCom Personal Media Pilot is unsurpassed with regard to
it's multimedia composition facility. No other email system
provides the ease, power, or flexibility with which users of
the UltraCom Personal Media Pilot can collect multimedia objects,
combine, scale, adjust, print, transmit, or receive and playback
advanced email. Our 'Multimedia Storyline Composition Editor'
provides a friendly interface for creation, storage and retrieval
of multimedia storylines, which decribe a simple to understand
recipe for composing the multimedia presentation and/or email.
EXTENDING BEYOND EMAIL:
UltraCom's Personal Media Pilot provides a cost effective
integrated solution for personal and workgroup multimedia.
Resources can be shared among any number of users,
or by a single user. UltraCom technology is extensible.
The UltraCom Personal Media Pilot is based on
UltraCom developed technology known as the "UltraCom Media
Composer" which was originally released in February of 1992.
OPEN SYSTEMS & STANDARDS:
The UltraCom multimedia series of products for UNIX based systems
is based completely on Open Systems Standards. The standards which
we comply with are:
For email: RFC 822, RFC1341, RFC 1342 (MIME level 1.0)
For Rendering: Adobe Postscript level 2.0
User Interface: X11 R3, R4, and R5.
Transport: All known carriers including SMTP, TCP/IP,
HP OpenMail X.400
Written in Languages: ANSI C (all modules except GUI)
Hypercard 2.0 (GUI only)
Integrate with other applications: Developer toolkit (see below)
INTEROPERABILITY:
The standards which UltraCom has adhered to during the development
and design of our product(s) allows full multi-media email
exchange among numerous manufacturers platforms including
IBM, SUN, HP and even DOS based PC's and postscript printers.
DEVELOPER SUPPORT / APPLICATIONS PORTABLE INTERFACE / OTHER USES:
The UltraCom Developer Support service includes free email support,
fee based phone support, low cost per copy royalty based distribution
of the UltraCom Media Composer engines, of which hundreds of
multimedia and imaging applications can be built.
Some areas of industry already having been addressed:
* Bank Imaging Services
* Criminal Justice Systems
* Various Security/Identification Services
UltraCom Media Composer Technology provides a multimedia scripting
language and utilities for manipulation of datasets, and multimedia
objects such as audio, and images. The scripting language is an
UltraCom exclusive, developed specifically for developers, and by
developers of multimedia and imaging solutions. The language and
multimedia interpreter supports a language consisting of over 50
utilites, commands, and operators. The Media Composer engine can
be interfaced with any language, including C, Shell Programs,
Fortran, Pascal, and others.
AVAILABILITY & LICENSING:
The UltraCom Personal Media Pilot is supported on the following
systems:
* The IBM Risc System/6000 family under AIX 3.2+
Planned systems:
* SUN Sparcstations (running SUN OS 4.X)
* SUN Classic Series (running Solaris 2.1 and above)
* HP workstations (running HP/UX 8.07 and above)
Licensing is by machine / by user id:
* Try and buy licensing (30+ day free trials) is available
DEMOS / TRIAL LICENSES:
Free full function product demos are available through internet electronic
self-service distribution at the following network locations:
Internet Site Directory (IP Address)
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ftp.metacard.com MetaCard/ultracom (128.138.213.21)
ftp.uu.net vendor/MetaCard/ultracom (*commericial users)
world.std.com pub/Metacard/ultracom (192.74.137.5)
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For those who do not have internet ftp access, you may download the
tar files from The World using kermit or xmodem protocol from the
~ftp/pub/MetaCard/ultracom directory. Sign up by calling 617-739-0202
or by modem @ 617-739-9753 (7 bit even), login as 'new'.
After retrieving the software, a "trial period" license will be issued
by UltraCom which will allow the product to function for approximately 30 days.
Demo tapes are available through UltraCom for a media cost & handling charge.
PRICING:
* See Pricing Information in the Program Help Menus
UltraCom Reserves the right to change pricing without
notice. Any outstanding purchase orders or contracts
for rate will be honored at the lowest price available
at execution of product delivery.
SUPPORT:
* Free email support
* Free Dial-up BBS system support will be available after SUN
release (Target: before 8/01/93)
* Fee based phone support (negotiated by terms of agreement)
* Free internet distributed software updates within a
major release
( Low cost media based updates are also available )
* UltraCom Developer Newsletters
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
* Approximately 1.5 M RAM per user
* 45 MB system disk space
For more information, please contact:
UltraCom Incorporated
P.O. Box 9700-345
Austin, TX 78766
Phone: (512) 339-8557
Fax: (512) 339-2888
? Why spend money on an email package when you can invest in
a total email, document imaging, and multimedia solution,
for less money than most 'email only' packages...UltraCom!
"Multimedia with a Personal Touch" (TM)
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TRADEMARKS / ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:
Trademark : is a trademark or registered trademark of COMPANY
IBM & AIX : International Business Machines Corporation
Risc System/6000 : International Business Machines Corporation
HP & HP/UX : Hewlett Packard
SUN : Sun Microsystems
SUN OS & Solaris : SUN Microsystems
MetaCard : MetaCard Corporation
HyperCard : Apple Computer
Postscript : Adobe Systems Incorporated
Personal Media Pilot : UltraCom Incorporated
Media Composer/6000 : UltraCom Incorporated
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