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Novell Extends GroupWise Promotion To December 31 20 Percent Price Reduction Attracts Customers During Microsoft Exchange Delays OREM, Utah -- October 13, 1995 -- Fueling the growing demand for integrated messaging and groupware solutions among organizations worldwide, Novell#, Inc. today announced that it has extended the GroupWise price reduction promotion to Dec. 31, 1995. First announced on July 6, 1995, the promotion offers a 20 percent price reduction for customers upgrading to the GroupWise messaging system from WordPerfect Office, as well as for NetWare customers moving from Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail or IBM PROFS systems. Included in the promotion are new migration kits to help customers easily move from Lotus, Microsoft and IBM's messaging products to Novell's more productive collaborative computing solution--GroupWise. "This price reduction will motivate customers frustrated by new delays in Microsoft Exchange to move to GroupWise,"said Steve Adams, vice president of marketing, Novell GroupWare Division. "Customers, frustrated by further delays of Microsoft Exchange, are considering GroupWise because it offers advanced messaging features today." "Novell's GroupWise today provides many of the features being touted for the future Microsoft product, including a Universal In Box, threaded conferencing, tightly integrated calendaring/scheduling and server-based agents," said David Marshak, a vice president at Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Group in Boston. In fact, many customers have already begun the migration from Microsoft Mail to GroupWise, according to Adams. These customers include McDonnell Douglas and NordicTrack, among others. With revenues and market share that have doubled over the past year and an installed base of more than 5 million users, GroupWise remains the first and only enterprise-wide collaborative computing system to integrate E-mail, personal calendaring, group scheduling, voice mail, faxes, Internet messages, task management and information access into a single user environment. "Customers today are demanding more scalable and feature-rich solutions that leverage the network environment," said Adams. A prime example of this, he said, was shown at the recent Networld + Interop event on Sept. 26-28 in Atlanta, when a GroupWise system supported more than 75,000 users who processed more than 3.4 million messages. In addition to providing users with a single environment for accessing and distributing multiple types of information, GroupWise leverages Novell's NetWare services, which in turn reduces a customer's total cost of ownership for maintaining a collaborative-computing solution. A simple, low-cost migration to GroupWise is now available, due in large part to the price reduction promotion. The promotion provides customers with all the tools necessary to migrate from their existing E-mail products to GroupWise, without interrupting the organization's work and at a significantly lower cost than before. The price promotion reduces the suggested retail price of the GroupWise five-user Client/Administration upgrade package to $195. The message server promotion packages are priced between $140 and $560, depending on server platform. For more information about the GroupWise upgrade promotion, customers can call their local reseller or Novell at (800) 258-5408. GroupWise is a strategic component of Novell's PerfectOffice, the industry's first network suite. GroupWise complements the collaboration tools found in PerfectOffice, making it the Perfect Place to Work and the obvious choice for small or large businesses entering the era of collaborative computing. GroupWise is also the perfect messaging partner to Novell's NetWare, the industry's dominant network operating system. With GroupWise and NetWare, Novell eliminates the need to separately manage network and messaging systems, making NetWare the network that is ready for tomorrow, today.
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