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<RSANDLE@auvm.american.edu> writes:

>I am interested in a real-time shared space for four to seven users in a Macint
>osh environment. MS Mail just doesn't do it. We would like to be able to
>communicate via a common window on each users machine. We have servers &
>network in place.

>AM I DREAMING?
>all responses or alternate ideas are welcome.

It depends on what you mean by communicating.  CSCW'92 is in it's final
day today and through the conference we have seen numerous examples of
grouptools: editors, paint, and drawing tools.  Most of these are research
prototypes.  However, here's the name of two commercial products:
	Aspects
	Group Technologies
	1408 North Fillmore Street, Suite 10
	Arlington, VA 22201
	800-476-8781
	review in Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Report, Dec. 1990
As you can see, Aspects has been around for a while.  It is a robust product
supporting up to 16 users with text, drawing, and paint tools.  Group
Technologies was also demoing a new video-conferencing tool for the Mac.

	MultiPoint
	IIS Technologies
Sorry, I don't have their address as I didn't make it to their demo.
Description includes "real-time multimedia, multipoint, visual conferencing
...supports shared views of docs, viewgraphs, photos, images with shared
gestures and annotations"

If by communicating you mean video (desktop video-conferencing), then I 
don't believe there are any
commercial systems available, though numerous research prototypes exist,
Including CAVECAT here at U of Toronto, and Cruiser at Bellcore.
Check out the CSCW/groupware/HCI literature.

greg