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| For the majority of customers on the Internet today, sending and receiving electronic mail has become the primary value-added activity. Claris has two solutions, Claris Emailer and Claris OfficeMail, that provide effective email management and distribution solutions for individuals and businesses of up to 100 users. Claris Emailer automates and manages the process of sending, receiving and attaching documents to email messages, on the Internet or a proprietary service such as America Online or CompuServe. Claris OfficeMail is the networked version of Emailer, enabling 5 to 100 users on Macintosh networks to get up and running with email in a matter of minutes with a simple six-step installation, including Internet Service Provider (ISP) access and company domain registration. | | For the majority of customers on the Internet today, sending and receiving electronic mail has become the primary value-added activity. Claris has two solutions, Claris Emailer and Claris OfficeMail, that provide effective email management and distribution solutions for individuals and businesses of up to 100 users. Claris Emailer automates and manages the process of sending, receiving and attaching documents to email messages, on the Internet or a proprietary service such as America Online or CompuServe. Claris OfficeMail is the networked version of Emailer, enabling 5 to 100 users on Macintosh networks to get up and running with email in a matter of minutes with a simple six-step installation, including Internet Service Provider (ISP) access and company domain registration. |
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| + | ===Infusing Internet Technologies Across Product Line=== |
| + | Claris will bring customers the benefits of the Internet by adding the best Internet technologies available to all of its products. Because Claris software is designed to boost customer creativity, the Internet will become integral to everything Claris makes and does. Among the Internet-enabling features Claris plans to add or is currently adding across the product line: |
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| + | * HTML translation |
| + | * Integrated World Wide Web access |
| + | * Support for emerging standards on the Internet |
| + | * Platform-optimized support for key component technologies, including |
| + | ** Active X, [[OpenDoc]] (Live Objects) and Java |
| + | ** Web-based support and registration |
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| + | Claris plans to incorporate built-in HTML output and translation capabilities across its product line. Products such as FileMaker Pro will join such currently HTML-enabled products as [[ClarisWorks]] 4.0 to easily convert content to HTML text for fast posting on the Web. In addition, Claris will be unveiling advanced integration between its complete line of products and Claris Home Page. This integration will simplify Web content creation by allowing drag and drop editing and seamless file exchange among programs. Claris plans to upgrade HTML functionality as new specifications are issued by the HTML standards committee. |
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| + | To further increase Internet accessibility for all customers, Claris plans to integrate World Wide Web access features and support for leading Internet browser technology directly into its products. For example, Claris Organizer 2.0 currently features the ability to automatically send email or link to a Website by simply clicking on an address stored on a contact card. Claris Organizer automatically launches both email packages and Web browsers respectively to perform each of the desired tasks. |
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| + | Future product offerings will include this ability to launch Internet programs directly from Web links or email addresses embedded in Claris programs. These features will allow users to select and open text-based Universal Resource Locators (URLs), or ones associated with objects, using their browser of choice. In addition, Claris products, like the current Claris Home Page, will continue to be optimized for both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer and their extensions. |
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| + | In addition to HTML, Claris will continue to support a host of emerging open technical standards that it believes are necessary to assist customers in communicating via the Internet. To this end, Claris will be incorporating support for a wide-range of evolving standards, such as GIF, JPEG and [[QuickTime]] file formats, across its product line in the near future. Claris will continue to evaluate and support further Internet standards as they develop. |
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| + | To continue to provide customers with the best cross-platform solutions for Windows, Macintosh and the Internet, Claris is dedicated to completing its migration to across-the-product-line cross-platform transparency, and to building platform optimized component support into its products. To this end, Claris will leverage both [[OpenDoc]] (Macintosh) and Active X (Windows) component frameworks in future product versions. By supporting these frameworks, Claris customers and developers will be able to take advantage of such platform-specific program customization features as seamless Internet browsing, animation and 3D graphics. For example, Claris has announced that the next version of [[ClarisWorks]] for the Macintosh will be an [[OpenDoc]] container, allowing the embedding of live Web content via Apple's [[Cyberdog]] product and future [[OpenDoc]] versions of Netscape Navigator. |
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| + | In addition, the Claris long-term goal is to foster future platform independence by supporting Java and Java components. Support for Java will enable customers to download and run platform-independent software from the Internet via a Java-enabled browser. |
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| + | Finally, Claris sees the powerful potential of customer service on the Internet and is focused on several communications initiatives to bring that potential to its customers. Claris is now offering software updates on the Claris Web site (www.claris.com) and is working with its dedicated resellers to provide upgrades and new products via the Internet. |
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| + | For the future, Claris is working to support electronic software distribution initiatives now in development, provide future electronic registration and offer automated updates via the Internet. Claris also plans to continue offering Web-based customer surveys, promotions, market specific content, and contests to further two-way communication with customers. |
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| + | To facilitate customers' connection to the Internet, Claris recently partnered with Internet service provider HoloNet to offer its customers ClarisLink service, an out-of-the-box, automated Internet connection and email hosting service. Users creating Web pages with Claris Home Page currently receive an out-of-the-box coupon good for six months of free Web site hosting. |
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