Strategic Partners and Alliances FIRE's Partners FIRE s strategic alliance program supports multiple partnerships with industry leading firms that add-value to FIRE s customers.
Partnerships range from operations, to technology, to marketing, to legal.
Utilizing a common web browser, HorizonLive connects a presenter and an audience either on the Internet, or on a company intranet. The speaker s voice and presentation materials, which can include streaming video, are pushed to participants, who type questions and responses back to the presenter and to each other, as in a real classroom. They appreciate such unique features as automatic firewall access, archiving of live classes for later use, the fact that the product is cross-platformed for Macintosh, Unix and PC s, and is designed to be completely compliant with open Internet standards and protocols. Inc. Blackboard s sophisticated, proprietary technology allows universities and corporations to host classes and training on the World Wide Web. As of June 1999, over 275 universities installed Blackboard on their intranets.