EDITORIAL CONTACTS: Rebecca Landre (408) 447-5333 HP DELIVERS ENHANCED OPENMAIL AND X.400 An Open, Enterprisewide Solution for Electronic Messaging ATLANTA, June 15, 1993 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced significant enhancements to its enterprisewide messaging system. With new releases of HP OpenMail and HP X.400, HP underscores its commitment to providing a world-class open messaging system that gives customers a choice of clients, gateways and transports. Major new functionality in HP OpenMail includes: o Support for Lotus cc:Mail as a direct client; o Support for Microsoft Mail as a direct client; o HP clients for Macintosh and Sun users; o HP Phonebook support for Windows, Macintosh and Motif clients; o OpenMail Bulletin Board; o OpenMail integration with HP OpenView; o PROFS migration program; o People Mover; and o Directory synchronization. Major new functionality for HP X.400 includes: o X.400 integration with HP OpenView; and o X/Open -APIA Gateway API. Enhanced Integration with the Desktop PC users can benefit from HP OpenMail's seamless integration with Microsoft Mail and cc:Mail. These direct clients, unlike gateways, permit end users to harness OpenMail's feature set through the LAN-based e-mail interface or mail-enabled applications with which they are familiar. Information technology managers will benefit from HP OpenMail's support of direct clients, as the need for gateways, directory synchronization and dedicated PC-server post offices is eliminated, and the overall cost of ownership for messaging is lowered. An advantage of Microsoft Mail and Windows SMAPI (simple messaging application programming interface) support is that Windows users will be able to communicate multimedia messages based on Microsoft's OLE (object linking and embedding) to other MAPI-aware mailboxes through HP OpenMail. HP announced new versions of its own clients with a similar look and feel across a wide range of desktops. These include new HP interfaces for Apple Macintosh and SUN Solaris 2.1 and new versions of existing interfaces for Windows and NewWave. The new HP client for Windows offers an iconic graphical interface with Bulletin-board access. The latest NewWave Mail release provides acknowledgements and auto-actions. A phonebook application, which allows, easy look-up access to the HP OpenMail directory is available for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX system-based/Motif desktops. HP OpenMail and X.400 Integration with HP OpenView HP also has announced increased integration of HP OpenMail and X.400 with OpenView, HP's enterprisewide network and system-management package. This will make it easier for network managers to monitor HP OpenMail and X.400 processes and to initiate administrative actions. HP OpenView permits centralized management facilities, reducing or eliminating the need for network management expertise at remote sites. The integration of HP OpenView with HP OpenMail and HP X.400 allows network managers to monitor message-store disk usage, queue levels, gateway usage and obtain accounting/billing reports of mail usage. Additional features help network managers provide remote notification, e.g., via beeper or printer, enable or disable logging, and be notified of potential security breaches. PROFS Migration Program HP's OpenMail solution also offers an option to the estimated 1.5 million IBM PROFS users who are no longer supported by IBM, as well as to current IBM OfficeVision/VM users who may wish to migrate messaging off the mainframe. HP is developing migration tools and consulting services to move current PROFS users' notelogs, in-trays, and documents safely and quickly to OpenMail. HP also supports gateways, such as Boston Software Works and SoftSwitch, that allow OpenMail/PROFS coexistence, including automatic directory synchronization. HP OpenMail's Open Architecture HP OpenMail is based on industry standards that are embodied both in its User Agent Layer API and its Gateway API: HP OpenMail provides a choice of desktop clients, including HP clients for MS-DOS, Windows, NewWave, Macintosh, HP-UX, Sun and terminal environments, as well as third-party clients, such as Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Applix Aster*x, and Clarity Rapport. The user agent layer includes support for Microsoft Windows Simple Messaging API (SMAPI), and is expected to support the complete Vendor Independent Messaging (VIM) specification when it is available. HP X.400 is used by HP OpenMail as a means of communicating to other X.400 MTAs. HP expects to ship the X/Open-APIA gateway API with HP X.400 in the fourth quarter. HP IS THE SAFE CHOICE HP brings 14 years of experience in electronic messaging to its customers. HP messaging is installed at thousands of customer sites and has more than one million mailboxes worldwide. HP is committed to continuing to provide, scalable, open, manageable messaging solutions that offer choice without compromise. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE "HWP") is an international manufacturer of computation and measurement products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine, and education in approximately 110 countries. HP has over 93,000 employees and had revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. # # # Lotus is a U.S. registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. Microsoft and MS-DOS are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Motif is a U.S. trademark of the Open Software Foundation.