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- Novell Introduces NetWare Global Messaging
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- Server-Based Messaging Engine Delivers Corporate-Wide Services
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- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- March 24, 1992 -- Novell today announced its new
- NetWare Global Messaging server, a messaging integration platform that
- meets customers' needs for powerful, reliable and manageable messaging
- services across corporate-wide environments. It supports a wide array of
- store-and-forward messaging applications, such as workflow automation,
- electronic data interchange, electronic mail and groupware.
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- "Just as customer demand for integrated, cross-platform file and print
- services drove the network computing industry in the '80s, we believe that
- the need for corporate-wide messaging will be a key driving force in the
- '90s," said Darrell Miller, executive vice president of Novell.
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- "Our customers have been asking for a powerful, store-and-forward engine
- that provides transparent interoperability among the most widely used
- messaging systems," said Miller. "The NetWare Global Messaging server
- answers those needs with support for multiple protocols and interfaces,
- directory synchronization, and the availability of more than one hundred
- compatible applications."
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- Implemented as a set of NetWare Loadable Modules on a NetWare v3.11 server,
- NetWare Global Messaging is tightly integrated with the NetWare operating
- system and takes full advantage of the operating system's powerful file and
- print, communications, name, network management and security services.
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- Supports Corporate-Wide Messaging Requirements
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- NetWare Global Messaging features include:
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- Multiple protocol support: The NetWare Global Messaging architecture can
- be thought of as a messaging hub supporting multiple messaging protocol
- modules. The asynchronous and internet message transfer protocols
- supported by NetWare MHS are built in to the initial release of the
- product. Additional optional protocol modules will follow, supporting the
- OSI standard X.400; Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), a popular
- protocol for UNIX users; System Network Architecture Distribution Service
- (SNADS) for IBM mainframe-based messaging systems, and other standard
- messaging environments.
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- Directory synchronization: The NetWare Global Messaging directory database
- is both distributed and replicated across multiple servers, and is updated
- when participating servers send directory update messages to each other.
- The updates can be triggered automatically or manually, and can consist of
- a complete reconciliation of the database, or only the changes that have
- occurred since the last update. The messaging directory synchronization
- feature is designed to be consistent with the NetWare operating system's
- current and future approaches to directory services.
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- Asynchronous communications support: Corporate-wide messaging requires
- transmitting messages beyond the local area network to servers at remote
- sites. NetWare Global Messaging's asynchronous communications features
- include support for multiple transmission media, simplified modem
- definition, public data network support, and communications through both
- the protocol supported by NetWare MHS v1.5 and a faster protocol that uses
- sliding windows. High-speed multiport intelligent communication controllers
- will be available from third parties to provide communication speeds of
- more than 100 kbits/sec.
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- Multiple interface support: NetWare Global Messaging uses the NetWare
- Standard Message Format (SMF) application programming interface (API). Now
- in its third generation, NetWare SMF has added support for long names,
- hierarchical naming schemes and directory synchronization. NetWare Global
- Messaging also supports the XAPIA gateway interface to X.400 servers, and
- will support other leading APIs, including Vendor-Independent Messaging
- (VIM), Microsoft's Messaging API (MAPI) and Apple's Open Collaborative
- Environment (OCE) , as they emerge.
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- NetWare Global Messaging is part of the NetWare Messaging Environment,
- which includes Novell's widely used NetWare MHS store-and-forward engine
- for LAN-based messaging, Personal MHS for remote access to messaging
- systems, NetWare Messaging CONNECT, for interoperability between MHS and
- SNADS environments, and well over 100 compatible third-party applications.
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- Pricing and Availability
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- The NetWare Global Messaging server will begin shipping early this summer.
- It is priced at $1,095 for 10 users, $2,895 for 50 users, $4,895 for 100
- users and $7,295 for 250 users.
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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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