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<h2 id="fort-internet-software">Forté Internet Software</h2>

<p>Originally called Forte Advanced Management Systems, Forté Internet Software, produced in the 1980s and 1990s enterprise-level products including network optimization and station administration tools that were licensed by <a href="/facts/Nortel_Networks/VYJnskS6">Nortel Networks</a>. In 1996, Forté created Adante, software for managing high volumes of inbound corporate email.
</p><p>In late 1997, Forté was acquired by Genesys Telecommunications (which was then purchased by <a href="/facts/Alcatel-Lucent/X0rLGYr7">Alcatel</a>) 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.
</p><p>In 2003, Forté created Forté Internet Services, which offers Agent Premium Newsgroups (APN), a high-speed, high-retention Usenet news service.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders/pFwoNTCn">List of Usenet newsreaders</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders/XDd2YTmw">Comparison of Usenet newsreaders</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.forteinc.com">Forté Internet Software</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent">alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent</a>, Agent newsgroup</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Forte Agent Newsreader". Newsgroup Reviews. NewsgroupReviews.com. Retrieved 22 January 2012. <a href="http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/forte-agent.html" target="_blank">http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/forte-agent.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Jacobi, Jon L. "First Look: Forte's Overly Complex Newsgroup Reader". PCWorld. PCWorld Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110101183915/http://www.pcworld.com/article/122391/first_look_fortes_overly_complex_newsgroup_reader.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110101183915/http://www.pcworld.com/article/122391/first_look_fortes_overly_complex_newsgroup_reader.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Agent Usenet Service <a href="http://www.forteinc.com/apn/" target="_blank">http://www.forteinc.com/apn/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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