July 2007

Happy Anniversary, Speed II

Twenty five yars ago, in the summer of 1982, NASA unveiled a new space shuttle called Challenger, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the opposite corner of the USA, a technological leap of another kind was introduced. It was called “Speed II”, and it was proudly released by TOM Software in Seattle, Washington.

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... and Happy Retirement, too!

It is almost unheard of in the technology industry for a software product to survive for a quarter of a century. So the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the release of Speed II, originally authored by TOM Software in Seattle, is indeed a rare event. Today, though, the number of active Speed II users has dwindled to a handful, and therefore, APPX Software, Inc. has announced the retirement of the Speed II product line, effective July 15, 2007.

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Customer Focus: Utah State Archives 

It’s easy to accept as fact that any government agency is going to generate a lot of paperwork. And certainly when you combine all  the agencies and departments required to run a state government, the volume can be overwhelming. So, how do you keep track of which documents need to be kept and for how long, and where those documents are stored? For Utah State Archives, the answer is with APPX.

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Announcing an Autumn APPX Affair in Amsterdam

Cansys West International has announced that they will be sponsoring their first European APPX Conference this fall. CWI, the largest international APPX distributor, has scheduled this event for November 15-16, 2007, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Conference is open to all APPX distributors, resellers, and customers worldwide, and will be preceded by three days of specialized training in the same location.

For more information about CWI's APPX Conference in Europe, click here.

APPX Tech Tip -  Client-Side Printing

With the advent of the APPX Desktop Client, a broad range of features were introduced that opened up integration between APPX and the desktop. One of the most useful features is client-side printing. In this issue’s Tech Tip we will explore some of the options and the workings of using client side printing.

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