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`PC WEEK
`OECEM8£R 14. 1998
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`DESKTOP & MOBILE
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`REVIE\V: Information management tool brings order to hard drive chaos
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`combination of phrases. For example. we
`could have one tracker keep tabs on all in·
`stances of documents and e-mail on our
`hard drive that contained the phrase .. group·
`ware·· and add anothertrackerthat narrowed
`the search to documents mentioning both
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`Notes and l'vlicrosoft Exchange.
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`Enfish Tool's a Good Catch of Boolean filters to focus on just a specific
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`indexing engine does take a .:onsiderabk
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`amount-of ~emory (6MB). and frequent En fish comes with a varietv of viewers
`task of indexing our entire hard drive.look-
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`indexing can tie up processor time and slow
`ingatdata stored in Microsoft Corp."s Word
`and Excel applications. and at e-mail mes- machine performance.
`out opening up the original application(cid:173)
`sages stored in Lotus Development Corp:s
`The index files themselves can also
`this is particularly useful forlooking at GIF.
`Notes and ;vlicrosoft's Outlook. as well as
`grow quite large. The more RAM on the
`JPEG and BMP image files.
`PC. the better the program'' ill perform.
`searching specified Web sites for new rna-
`Enfish also provides a handy way to keep
`terials of interest.
`Enfish doesn't require us<:!S to change
`track of images and other files that are im·
`Enfish indexes Corel
`possible to index. To orga-
`Corp .. Lotus and Microsoft
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`jot down ideas. If a note
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`In tests, Enfish didn't ~-.-
`tracker.
`search Notes mail messages
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`Enfish's limited Web
`as thoroughly as other mail
`searching tool lets users con·
`struct a search and run it
`against Yahoo. Excite and
`searched the in-box. not fold-
`ers in which we had stored Enftsh Tracker Pro lilt us define trackers (left) and displays results on the right other Web-based search en-
`mail messages. Enfish officials said this
`how they organize their applications or
`gines. We could also program Enfish's
`problemhasoccurredatotherNotessites, where thev store data. Rather than mov-
`search engine to scan Web sites regularly.
`ing files i~to folders. the program leaves
`and they are working to ftx it.
`look for terms stored in information
`data where· it is found. establishes a link
`trackers and notify us when new informa(cid:173)
`and displays it in a streamlined user inter-
`tion anived.
`But the Web search tool doesn't down-
`face (see screen).
`load what it finds. so it won't replace so(cid:173)
`We were able to quickly cr-.:ate search
`terms. which Enfish calls trackers. by enter-
`phisticated offline browsing tools such as
`ingakeyword for a topic along with the names Data Viz Inc:s Web Buddy orthe improv(cid:173)
`of individuals associated with that keyword.
`ing offline features found in Microsoft· s
`We could refine a search by applying a set
`and Netscape's Web browsers. •
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`BY IIATT WIER, PC WE£X UBS
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`er Pro information management soft(cid:173)
`ware is a dream come true for a com(cid:173)
`pany's information pack rats. giving them
`an easy way to index and find the wide va(cid:173)
`riety of data they've stashed away on their
`PC hard drives.
`The product tracks everything from
`the contents of e-mail and desktop appli(cid:173)
`cations to the latest information on user(cid:173)
`specified Web sites. although the Web
`search feature was unimpressive in PC
`Week Labs' tests. Even without the Web
`searches. the Windows product is worth
`its $80 price.
`Other single-userindexing tools. such as
`Compaq Computer Corp."s free Alta(cid:173)
`Vista Discovery. do much the same thing
`but aren't as customizable as Enfish. En(cid:173)
`fish's principal drawback is that its index(cid:173)
`ing engine takes up a lot of memory-the
`company recommends it be used on PCs
`with 64MB of RAM.
`As useful as Enfish is for individuals in(cid:173)
`undated with information. a workgroup
`version that could index data on a server
`and share those indexes with a group of
`users would be more valuable for busi(cid:173)
`nesses. Enfish officials said they plan to add
`workgroup features to an update slated to
`ship in March: the single-user version we
`tested shipped in late October.
`We gave Enfish-the name stands for
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`PC WEEK LABS EXECunVE SUMMARY
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`Enfish Tracker Pro
`Enfish's Enfish Tracker Pro wiD be a welcome
`single-user desktop tool for managing a firm
`iflg stack Of onfme in-
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`USABILITY
`formation in toea-
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`CAPABILITY
`tiOnS ranging from
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`PERFORMANCE
`INTEROP£RABillTY B . &mail tO Web SiteST
`A The SOftware regu-
`MANAGEABILITY
`larly indexes a user's hard drive and per(cid:173)
`forms Web searches for user-specified
`terms, making it easy to locate critical data
`no matter where it is stored.
`C Gathers information from e-mail,
`desktop applications and Web sites into
`one easy-to-search index; is easy to cus·
`tomize; includes viewers for image files;
`can index images via attached cover
`notes, as well as notes that aren't at·
`tached to anything.
`0 Index engine requires large amount
`of RAM; has limited Web search tools;
`could not index Lotus Notes mail mes·
`sages as thoroughly as other mail mes(cid:173)
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`Works In ttJe background
`Enfish indexes a PC's hard drive in the
`background whenever the indexing engine
`detects that the PC hasn't been used for 5
`minutes. Although users can set wider in(cid:173)
`tervals for scanning a particular applica(cid:173)
`tion or file directory for new material, the
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`HP, Dell Touch Up Workstation Graphics
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`New boards boost performance, reduce prices of Kayak, Precision machines
`BY JOHII G. SPGOIIER
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`HEWLETI·PACKARD CO. HAS INFUSED ITS
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`Kavak Windows NT workstations with
`additional graphics capabilities.
`The Palo Alto. Calif.. company beefed
`up the Kayak's graphics subsystems with
`, a new graphics board from Evans & Suther(cid:173)
`land Computer Corp.
`The E&S Acce!Gala'\)·board. which sup(cid:173)
`ports the OpenG L three-dimensional graph(cid:173)
`ics API. increases graphics perform<~nce
`hy SO percent. The board repl<~ces its pre·
`decessor. the AccdEclipse. which was
`onl\' availahk in the Kavak XW.
`The Aced Galaxy ho~rd will he offerc;:d
`;,1cross the entire Kayak line. which induJes
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`sor XA workstation: the entry-level. dual(cid:173)
`Pentium II processor XA-s wurkstation:
`and the high-end XU with single- or dual(cid:173)
`Pentium II or Xeon proces·;ors. HP's
`high-end XW line. however. will still offer
`HP's own Visualize graphics board.
`The $4.200 Kavak XA will come
`equipped with a 450~1Hz Intel Corp. Xeon
`processor. 128MB of synchronous dy(cid:173)
`namic RA;vi and a 10.1GB harJ drive. An
`X A-s model with the new graphics and dual
`450:\lHz Pentium ll processors starts at
`$-kfi50. and an XC model with dual45{)MHz
`Xeon processors starts at $5.9:\0. HP offi(cid:173)
`cials said.
`HP isn't the only workstation venJor to
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`puter Corp. last month updated its Dell
`Precision workstations with a new graph(cid:173)
`ics board from 3D labs Inc.
`The board. the Oxygen GMX. replaces
`an Intergraph Computer Systems Inc. In(cid:173)
`tense 3D Pro board. previously used by
`Dell in Precision 410 and 610 models. The
`new board helped reduce prices on work·
`stations equipped with it by S 1.600. Pric(cid:173)
`ino on De II' s Precision 410 workstatil11l now
`st~rts at $3.595 for a machine contigured
`with a single Pentium 11 400\!Hz proces(cid:173)
`sor. according to Dell officials in Round
`Rock. Texas.
`HP can be reached at (SOO) 75:-0QOO or
`www.hp.com. Ddl is at (SOil) lJlN-3355 or
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`Enfish, LLC; IPR2014-00574
`Exhibit 2222
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