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- Novell Introduces Extended Messaging Interface
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- Third Generation API Supports Global Messaging Requirements
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- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- March 24, 1992 -- Novell today introduced the third
- generation of NetWare SMF, its widely supported Standard Message Format
- (SMF) application programming interface (API). NetWare SMF LEVEL 71 is a
- full-featured programming tool that will enable developers to create new,
- more powerful software for workflow automation, electronic mail, and other
- applications that require messages to be received, stored and forwarded
- across a variety of desktop systems.
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- "NetWare SMF is powerful and easy to use. It has received broad support
- from developers, resulting in more than one hundred compatible applications
- and gateways," said Carey Heckman, Novell's director of messaging product
- marketing. "This latest version provides a new addressing scheme,
- directory synchronization, and programming 'hooks' to further empower the
- development of new applications such as document translation. It delivers
- seamless interoperability among native SMF applications, whether running on
- DOS, Windows, OS/2, Apple Macintosh, or UNIX desktops."
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- NetWare SMF is the industry-standard set of APIs used for all MHS-based
- applications and is supported by NetWare MHS and Novell's new NetWare
- Global Messaging server, also announced here today. New features include
- support for extended-length user names, providing improved support for
- gateways to facsimile machines and other messaging environments. The new
- version also supports a hierarchical addressing structure, allowing the
- creation of logical workgroups and facilitating directory synchronization.
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- "The NetWare SMF interface is a proven API with strong support among
- developers," said Richard Schwartz, senior vice president and chief
- technical officer at Borland International, Inc. "The added functionality
- announced today will help us deliver workgroup applications that meet the
- demands of corporate-wide, multiplatform, multiprotocol environments."
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- Designed for easy application and gateway development, NetWare SMF is
- currently being used by more than 700 registered developers. The SMF
- interface set includes submission and delivery interfaces, directory
- interfaces and gateway capabilities to other messaging and directory
- systems. Packaged software developers, value-added resellers and corporate
- in-house developers have chosen NetWare SMF for rapid creation of leading
- edge messaging products, and messaging-enabled database, network management
- and other applications.
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- "Novell's NetWare SMF is a sophisticated messaging system to support the
- next generation of mail-enabled applications," said Anand Jagannathan,
- president and founder of Reach Software Corp. "The Reach WorkMAN workflow
- platform will benefit from the enhanced directory services, hierarchical
- workgroup addressing and more efficient mail delivery and routing. Now
- users will have an advanced platform for enterprise-wide workflow
- applications."
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- Because NetWare SMF includes a flexible file-based interface rather than a
- procedural interface, no libraries or their associated royalty fees are
- required. NetWare SMF-71 will be supported by the next release of NetWare
- MHS, and offers backward compatibility with the earlier version used in
- NetWare MHS v1.5 and v1.5C.
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- The NetWare SMF-71 specification and developer toolkits will be available
- early this summer. The Software Development Kit, which includes NetWare
- Global Messaging and NetWare MHS software and an API manual set, is priced
- at $1,095. The price of the Programmers Reference alone is $95.
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- Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software company, the
- developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating
- system software products including NetWare, DR DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and
- FlexOS. Novell's NetWare network computing products manage and control the
- sharing of services, data and applications among computer workgroups,
- departmental networks and business-wide information systems.
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