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   Jason | Mar 02, 2001 12:06am | #1

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   Jason, could you describe for those of us who are little less, er, literate what buzzsaw.com does and what collaborative internet services are? Thanks.

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   Jason_D.D. | Mar 03, 2001 10:49pm | #2

   *First off, this is not a pitch for buzzsaw. I do not work for them. Secondly, the web page (buzzsaw.com) will do a better job at explaining what they do than I can. Anyway, here goes. Buzzsaw offers a "web-enabled" collaborative work space. In short, instead of having prints, bid documents, rfq's, rfi's, files and meetings scattered around in everyone's seperate offices, they can all be centrally located on the web. Users can be clients/owners, builders, engineers, architects and anyone else on a building project team. Each project gets its own "space". Imagine the web version of a job office where every element of the project is stored. In the design stage, documents (usually in the form of acad .dwg's) are reviewed and marked up on the web. Written communication likewise is transferred this way. Everyone on the team can have access to the most current/updated info. Bids are handled through the space, as are document reproduction orders. There are different levels of security/passwords to maintain relavtive amounts of confidentiality. This also only allows the appropriate folks to make changes. Smaller projects can use it for free (for now), while the big ones have to pay. Again, check out the sight.

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   Jason_D.D. | Mar 03, 2001 10:49pm | #3

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   Has anyone been using buzzsaw.com or other similar "collaborative" internet services? They seem to be pretty accessible for the (relatively) small guys. I am trying to get a sense of how big a project needs to be to actually realize some returns on using their service. Any thoughts?