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EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
Rebecca Landre
HP
(408) 447-5333
Paula Thoren
Clarity Software
(415) 691-0320, ext. 740
HP ENTERPRISE MESSAGING SOLUTION OFFERS
NEW CLIENTS OF CHOICE
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 27, 1992 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today
announced three electronic-mail user agents as "clients of choice" for
its standards-based electronic-messaging solution. This announcement
delivers on HP's strategy to provide users with a choice of client
applications that use its X.400, UNIX* system-based HP OpenMail server
and messaging infrastructure. The new applications allow users to
select the desktop platform and interface of their choice for access to
the messaging services they need.
Choice of HP Client Interfaces
HP now will offer electronic-mail clients with a similar look and feel
across a breadth of desktops with the announcement of new HP interfaces
for Microsoft(R) Windows and OSF/MOTIF.
Users of personal computers, running Microsoft Windows, and HP's X-
terminals and workstations, running OSF/MOTIF, have access to the
powerful, enterprisewide messaging capabilities of HP OpenMail. The new
clients allow users to communicate with others throughout an enterprise
transparently with simple wildcard or phonetic addressing.
HP now will bundle its clients for MS-DOS(R); MS Windows; HP
NewWave; OSF/MOTIF; and terminals, with the purchase of HP OpenMail.
Choice of Channel Partner Interfaces
HP said it is working with several software vendors to provide
direct access to HP's electronic-messaging services. In a related
announcement, HP and Clarity Software said that Clarity Rapport now is
available as a direct electronic-mail client to HP OpenMail.
Clarity Rapport is an award-winning software package of integrated
tools for creating and conveying information, including electronic
mail, for UNIX system-based workstation users. Rapport allows HP and
Sun Microsystems workstations running OSF/MOTIF to participate
transparently as native clients in an HP enterprise messaging network.
Rather than using a gateway, Clarity Rapport now integrates with the HP
OpenMail message store, directories and transport functions.
"Clarity Rapport's ease of use on multiple platforms is a natural fit
with HP OpenMail. HP OpenMail ensures that I can send information to
virtually anyone; Rapport makes that information accessible and
editable in any popular applications format," said Howard Smith,
president of Clarity Software.
This announcement follows similar announcements by Microsoft and
Lotus(R), earlier this year.
"These new clients provide customers with flexibility and choice
and are another demonstration of HP's commitment to openness," said
Carol G. Mills, general manager of the Cooperative Computing Systems
Division at HP.
HP plans to bring similar client choices to HP DeskManager
through the HP OpenDesk initiative, announced in September 1992.
Clarity Software was founded in 1990 to provide software to
increase the effectiveness of electronic communications by UNIX
workstation users. The company is headquartered in Mountain View,
Calif., and is venture capital financed.
Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of
measurement and computation 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 100 countries. HP has 90,900 employees and
had revenue of $14.5 billion in its 1991 fiscal year.
# # #
UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc. in the
U.S.A. and other countries. Microsoft and MS-DOS is a registered
trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Lotus is
a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp.