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On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, GREG BILKE wrote:

> 
> I have been asked to research an upgrade to our firm's daily, in-house,
> electronic newsletter.  I thought this list would be a good place to gather
> some general information.
> 
> We are moving from a VMS/dumb terminal with monochrome monitor environment
> to PCs running Windows for Workgroups v3.11 on a LAN.  

First step, convert 2 of your VMS hosts (for fault tolerance and 
redundancy if you need it, otherwise - only one) to OSF/1 (Digital Unix?)
This gives you a monster server for only the cost of software.

> Currently, our newsletter is a simple ASCII file that users view from the
> VAX.  We would like to take advantage of the PC's graphics capabilities to
> dress up the newsletter with variable fonts, graphics and photographs.   
> Can anyone suggest a document production/viewing product that would be
> appropriate for an in-house, LAN based newsletter?

Step two.
Download a copy of the HTTP daemon from NCSA.  This source can be 
compiled under OSF/1.  (You may even be able to get a version for VMS).

Step three.
Get copies of Cello, Mosaic, and Netscape.  Netscape is $35/copy license 
fee, Cello is a faster windows implmentation, and Mosaic is good for 
publishing Local (LAN) news "letters".

Have a writable directory for "Home Pages" and include status reports.
With VMS, you can manage permissioning and groups.

> Product names, suggestions, war stories, email addresses, URLs appreciated. 
> Feel free to email me any press releases or announcements.  TIA.

URL:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html
URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Step Four (Optional)

Test drive Linux on a two or three PCs.  If you like it, each PC can 
become it's own HTML Server.

	Rex Ballard.

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 02:09:40 1995