Industry | Computer software |
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Founded | 1992 |
Defunct | 1996 |
Fate | Merged to Netscape Communications in 1996 |
Headquarters | Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania United States |
Key people | Daniel Harple Richard Pizzarro |
Products | Communique InSoft Network Television CoolTalk CoolView ICEMaker InSoft ICS ICE suite |
Number of employees | 70+ (1995) |
InSoft Inc. was an American developer of network-based communications software and multimedia software founded in 1992 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The company’s applications included Communique, which is used for desktop collaboration and videoconferencing.[1]
InSoft has been called a pioneer in the desktop videoconferencing market,[2] and is credited with developing the first generation of Internet media streaming and VoIP/collaborative software applications that would later be developed into NetscapeConference and NetscapeMedia Server. These, in turn, would provide the groundwork for the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) standard. RTSP is used to control incoming data when streaming video. The company was sold to Netscape Communications on April 25, 1996.[3]