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- REDMOND, Wash. -- May 12, 1992 -- Microsoft Corporation today announced
- shipment of two new gateway products for Microsoft Mail users. Microsoft
- Mail Host Access version 3.2 for IBM PROFS and OfficeVision is an upgrade
- to the Microsoft Mail PROFS gateway that allows the more than 1.5 million
- users of Microsoft Mail for PC Networks to communicate with the four
- million PROFS users worldwide. Microsoft Mail Distribution Manager version
- 3.2 for IBM PROFS and OfficeVision is a new VM-based product that lets
- Microsoft Mail users exchange messages and documents with many of the most
- popular host e-mail systems.
-
- "Chevron relies on the proven technology of Microsoft Mail every day, with
- 22,000 PROFS users on seven VM mainframes exchanging notes and documents,"
- said William Skilton, systems analyst at Chevron Information Technology
- Company. "We appreciate the faster performance of the new version of Host
- Access, as well as the active notification on error conditions.
- Distribution Manager has allowed us to unify our Microsoft Mail population
- not only with PROFS users, but with DEC and X.400 environments as well."
-
- Microsoft Mail Host Access version 3.2 for IBM PROFS and OfficeVision
- supports RSCS version 3 and delivers significant improvements in
- performance and error detection and recovery. In addition, version 3.2
- supports the advanced features of Microsoft Mail version 3.0, including
- fault-tolerant automatic directory exchange and transparent exchange of
- OLE objects across a PROFS network backbone. Microsoft Mail Host Access is
- available for $14,995 per VM CPU. Each VM CPU can support multiple LAN
- gateway connections (available separately).
-
- Microsoft Mail Distribution Manager version 3.2 for IBM PROFS and
- OfficeVision uses the ZIP host communications Protocol to link Microsoft
- Mail users with users of many of the most popular host-based messaging
- systems. Distribution Manager resides on the VM host and extends the
- functionality of the Microsoft Mail Host Access product. With Distribution
- Manager, Microsoft Mail users can receive all types of documents from
- PROFS and send files to PROFS users as documents. Both final and draft
- forms of DCF and RFT, two of the most common host system document formats,
- are supported. Distribution Manager also allows Microsoft Mail users to
- exchange documents with OfficeVision/MVS, OfficeVision/400, Verimation
- MEMO, IBM PS/CICS, System/360, Remote PROF via DISOSS, and, through host
- gateways, to DEC and WANG Office.
-
- "High-quality host connectivity is essential for a LAN e-mail system, and
- these new products reflect Microsoft's leadership in that area," said
- Daniel Petre, general manager of the workgroup applications division at
- Microsoft. "Microsoft is the only LAN e-mail vendor with a PROFS gateway
- that can connect isolated LANs across an existing PROFS network. Now, with
- the introduction of encapsulation technology, users can seamlessly
- exchange e-mail with charts, graphics and even sound and video across that
- PROFS backbone. "
-
- Microsoft Mail Host Access version 3.2 for IBM PROFS and OfficeVision
- upgrades are available for $1,250. Users who acquired Microsoft Mail Host
- Access on or after March 1, 1992 are eligible to receive a free upgrade to
- version 3.2. Microsoft Mail offers a full line of integrated gateways to
- X.400, SMTP, SNADS, MHS, MCI MAIL, 3+Mail, and Fax. For more information
- on Microsoft Mail or any of the gateways, please call (800) 426-9400.
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