5 Asynchronous Cooperation

Message Handling and Electronic Mail
Annotations:
- Products that provide an infrastructure to exchange messages
1. Transmission via SMTP: MS Exchange or Lotus Domino
2. Transmission via X.400
3. Enhancement of conventional system: Unified messaging infrastructure
  Annotations:
  - SMS, Voice-Mail, Fax VoIP, Instant Messaging are integrated into one portal. Products are Clients (Thunderbird, Lotus Notes..), Webmail, integraated products
4. Mail-in-Database
  Annotations:
  - Message is not forwarded to individual client, incoming mails are received in a central mail-in database. all agents get informed that message came in. Team mailbox
Bulletin Board Systems
Annotations:
- Specialized databases that store messages of different authors to main topics and provide them to a variety of readers. E.g. Lotus notes and Google database
1. shared information rooms
Project and Group Planning System
Annotations:
- Planning system coordinates resoources and capacities and aim to optimize their application
1. workgroup computing
2. Manages TIME
  1. Project planning systems, e.g. MS Project
Shared Workspaces
Annotations:
- shared workspace in which data and tools are available for participating depending on their role
1. Shared information pools
2. Goal: - support of shared task processing; - information objects and repositories (artifacts) - examples: BSCW, Quickr, Lotus Notes

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