Press Release

GroupWise Named Best E-Mail And Groupware Product Of 1995

Wins PC Computing MVP Award over Lotus Notes

LAS VEGAS - November 13, 1995 - Novell, Inc. today announced that GroupWise 4.1 has been selected by the editors of PC Computing as the winner of the 1995 Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award in the E-mail and Groupware Category. In winning the coveted MVP Award, GroupWise out-performed all other products in terms of usability, functionality, value and performance in real world business environments.

"We're pleased to see the strengths of GroupWise as an E-mail and groupware solution being recognized by industry leaders," said Stewart Nelson, vice president and general manager, Novell GroupWare Division. "Many 'industry-first' technologies have been introduced in GroupWise, from cross-platform support to the Universal In Box, and these innovations are the main reason that more than five million users have selected GroupWise as their collaborative computing solution."

GroupWise was the first and remains the only enterprise-wide, collaborative computing application to integrate electronic mail, personal calendaring, group scheduling, task management, internet messages, faxes, paging, rules-based message management and workflow routing. Its Universal In Box allows users to access and act on information in one place, eliminating the need to piece together information from separate applications or gather information from several different locations. Because of its messaging-based architecture, GroupWise is able to deliver and receive information immediately instead of making users wait for predetermined replication periods.

GroupWise was the first LAN-based product to offer E-mail across multiple platforms, and continues to offer its full set of functionality across Windows, Macintosh, DOS and UNIX (7 different flavors) clients. The powerful GroupWise Out Box tracks the status of all outgoing messages, and allows users to retract unopened messages. Mobile users can access information in the GroupWise system through pagers, wireless networks, remote client connections, or any standard touchtone telephone.

For more information about GroupWise or additional products from Novell's GroupWare Division, customers may call Novell at (800) 861-2507.

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