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For more information contact:
Hewlett-Packard Company
Rebecca Landre
(408)447-5333
Waggener Edstrom
Lora Loftis or Beth Herrell
(206)637-9097
Microsoft Corporation
Collins Hemmingway
(206)882-8080
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Announce Shipment of Messaging Driver That
Integrates Microsoft Mail With HP OpenMail
REDMOND, Wash. --April 19, 1993-- Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard
Company announced today that through their joint development efforts, users will
be able to integrate Microsoft Mail with Hewlett-Packard's enterprise-wide HP
OpenMail electronic messaging solution. This solution consists of a driver that
allows customers to use the Microsoft Mail for PC Networks client with HP
OpenMail software. The driver will be available in May 1993. An
agreement has been signed that outlines the marketing, distribution and support
of the driver by both companies. The announcement was made at the Microsoft
Mail User's Conference in Portland, Ore.
The Microsoft Mail and HP OpenMail solution is designed to meet the needs
of customers with large global networks. Customers will gain access to a
robust, UNIX, standards-based, messaging backbone from Hewlett-Packard, along
with a leading edge client from Microsoft. This solution has been made
possible by Microsoft's and HP's open, standards-based messaging strategies.
HP OpenMail users now have another means of communicating multimedia
messages containing text, graphics, sound and other application objects
through the support for Microsot object linking and embedding, (OLE)
technology. Furthermore, HP OpenMail customers will be able to develop
messaging-enabled applications, as well as, take advantage of third-party
applications written to MAPI, Microsoft's Messaging Application
Program Interface.
"This solution leverages the transport independent architecture of
Microsoft Mail to provide a feature-rich, graphical interface to the users
of HP's UNIX-based electronic messaging solution," said Daniel Petre,
vice president of the workgroup division at Microsoft.
Microsoft is a leading supplier of LAN-based messaging solutions and
strives to provide support for an open messaging environment. Microsoft
Mail is an award-winning electronic mail program that offers administrators
and end users an easy-to-use, powerful mail product. The Microsoft Mail
connectivity solution is composed of both drivers and the industry's broadest
set of gateways to a number of other messaging systems.
Connectivity to other messaging services is supplied by Microsoft
through relationships with other vendors as Hewlett-Packard to provide MAPI-
compliant drivers to other messaging systems and services. Microsoft is
pursuing this strategy through the establishment of an open Messaging
Application Program Interface that is designed to support multiple messaging
services. Customer will benefit from a single user interface and standard
applications program interface(API) for developing messaging enabled
applications.
"The integration of Microsoft Mail and HP OpenMail offers a great
messaging solution to the marketplace," said Carol G. Mills, general manager
of the cooperative computing systems division at Hewlett-Packard. "Not only
do users get a very flexible, standards-based messaging service, but they
also gain access to this power through the easy-to-use Microsoft Mail Windows-
based client."
Hewlett-Packard is pursuing an open, standards-based strategy to meet
customers' needs for integration into multivendor, client/server computing
environments. With the HP OpenMail open architecture, the solution can
interoperate with a variety of system types, from PC LAN to minicomputers
and mainframes. Hewlett-Packard's electronic messaging flagship products
are HP OpenMail, HP X.400 and HP X.500 for scalable UNIX-based systems,
which together provide rich user and administrator functionality. HP OpenMail
is licensed by a number of original equipment manufacturers, including
Applix and Uniplex, two leading suppliers of open office software and
Alcatel, one of Europe's largest telecommunications vendors. The support of
MAPI and other leading APIs in HP OpenMail provides customers with a
choice of electronic mail and mail-enabled applications that use
this enterprise-wide backbone.
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 93,100 employees and had revenue $16.4 billion in
its 1992 fiscal year.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ"MSFT") is the worldwide leader in
software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products
and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of
making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full
power of personal computing every day.