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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.
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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.