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Exercises: Lesson 7: Intranet and groupware

Author: Arne B. Mikalsen

Date: 23.04.97

Deadline: 06.05.97


GroupWare and software protection

The Questions in this exercise is based upon you using the Hyper links given in the lesson. Much of the information discussed in lesson 7 is related to background information on the Internet. Use the lesson as a surfboard and surf the Internet for the solutions to this exercise.

Question 1 - GroupWise

What would you point to as special in the e-mail concept in Novell's GroupWise?

Question 2 - NetMeeting

What is Microsoft's NetMeeting?

How is this related to the information about intranet in the lesson?

Question 3 - Netscape SuiteSpot

What are the most important parts of Netscape SuiteSpot?

Pick at least three components and explain what they consist of.

Question 4 - Software protection

Imagine having a 10-user license for a software product on your server. How is the number of used licenses usually controlled, technically speaking (in other words: how does the software figure out how many people are using the software at any given time)?