Forté Internet Software
Encyclopedia
Originally Forte Advanced Management Systems, Forté Internet Software makes Agent
, a Windows
-based Usenet news
and email
client. In the 1980s and 1990s Forté also produced enterprise-level products including network optimization and station administration tools that were licensed by Nortel Networks. In 1996 Forté created Adante, software for managing high volumes of inbound corporate email.
In late 1997 Forté was acquired by Genesys Telecommunications (which was then purchased by Alcatel
) to integrate Adante into the Genesys and Alcatel product lines. In 2000 Alcatel sold Forte's Consumer Software Group to Charles Dazler Knuff. Now known as Forté Internet Software, this group continues to develop Agent and to research the areas of social software, email and wireless communications using trust networks.
In 2003 Forté created Forté Internet Services, which offers Agent Premium Newsgroups (APN), a high-speed, high-retention Usenet news service.
Forté Agent
Forté Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader which capitalized on the emerging Windows GUI framework...
, a Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
-based Usenet news
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
and email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
client. In the 1980s and 1990s Forté also produced enterprise-level products including network optimization and station administration tools that were licensed by Nortel Networks. In 1996 Forté created Adante, software for managing high volumes of inbound corporate email.
In late 1997 Forté was acquired by Genesys Telecommunications (which was then purchased by Alcatel
Alcatel
Alcatel Mobile Phones is a brand of mobile handsets. It was established in 2004 as a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent of France and TCL Communication of China....
) to integrate Adante into the Genesys and Alcatel product lines. In 2000 Alcatel sold Forte's Consumer Software Group to Charles Dazler Knuff. Now known as Forté Internet Software, this group continues to develop Agent and to research the areas of social software, email and wireless communications using trust networks.
In 2003 Forté created Forté Internet Services, which offers Agent Premium Newsgroups (APN), a high-speed, high-retention Usenet news service.