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Article: Ramus: Making E-Mail smarter. (Beyond Inc: Ramus electronic mail software)
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- Soft-Letter
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- November 7, 1989
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RAMUS: MAKING E-MAIL SMARTER
Recently, we dropped in on a four-person startup called Beyond Inc. Beyond is a venture headed (and funded) by Chuck Digate, an ex-senior vice president at Lotus who has some fascinating notions about the future of electronic mail systems. Digate showed us a very early prototype of a product, code-named Ramus, that demonstrates these concepts in action--and it's a remarkably convincing vision.
Ramus (which may ship late next year) is not a conventional E-mail system, Digate points out: It is an E-mail "application" that is designed to act as a front end to the system-level plumbing of existing network and mainframe-based mail ...