It’s not too often that one encounters Icelandic companies in this business, but Object-Fax, the Windows and MS-DOS networked facsimile product comes from Traffic Software Ltd of Rejkjavik. It now supports Microsoft Corp’s OLE 2.0 Object Linking & Embedding in a variety of ways, including visual editing, drag and drop and OLE automation. Disk space is saved because Object-Fax stores sent facsimile as objects rather than as image files. Users can send a fax by employing the OLE drag and drop feature. Dragging the document and dropping it on the Object-Fax icon sends it. The OLE 2.0 feature, OLE Automation, enables other Windows-based applications to drive Object-Fax remotely to send, store and print facsimile messages. According to the company, independence from network protocols means that Object-Fax can be used on all personal computer-based local networks with between five and 4,000 users. Because facsimile messages can be sent with a file-based application programming interface, they can be sent from virtually any computer, provided it can access the local network file server. Object-Fax also supports the MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface and VIM Vendor-Independent Messaging; support is planned for MHS Message Handling System. Multiple facsimile servers per local network can be managed and each fax server can support up to 16 fax lines. The suggested retail price is from $990 for a five-user system.
