FUJITSU CUSTOMIZES NOVELL'S GROUPWISE 5 FOR JAPANESE MARKET

Productivity Enhancements Designed to Meet Specific Needs of Enterprise Customers

Fujitsu will incorporate specific capabilities requested by its major Japanese customers into the enhanced feature set of GroupWise 5. These capabilities will include the ability to share team calendars and schedules, a bulletin board feature, integration with popular Japanese desktop productivity tools, such as Microsoft Office and the Oasys word processing package, and shared resource management capabilities.

"By itself, GroupWise 5 offers our customers the most advanced E-mail and groupware capabilities available today. GroupWise's support for third party development allows us to take that advanced functionality one-step further to provide a perfect fit for each customer's business needs," said Isao Katayanagi, Director of Fujitsu Limited. "Given GroupWise's open API and strong development tools and support, we can easily customize GroupWise 5 for our customers."

As Novell's leading OEM partner for NetWare in Japan, Fujitsu is currently targeting its largest corporate customers, with 400 to 600 NetWare servers (20,000 to 30,000 users) with its customized GroupWise 5 solution. Fujitsu's large customer base and leadership position in Japan's information technology industry will allow it to play a key role in that country's emerging GroupWare market.

"As a leader in the Japanese mainframe and personal computer markets, Fujitsu has a longstanding reputation of providing powerful, reliable business solutions," said Stewart Nelson, vice president and general manager of Novell's GroupWare Division. "Together with Fujitsu's leadership position, GroupWise 5 will become an even more important foundation for building corporate intranets and meeting other critical communication needs ."

Using the GroupWise 5 Software Developer's Kit (SDK), Fujitsu will leverage GroupWise's support for industry standards (MAPI, ODMA, CMC/CSA and SNMP) and development languages (VisualBasic, Delphi and C/C++) to continue to meet the specialized needs of its customers.

Fujitsu Limited is a leading company in the global IT industry with total revenues of more than $36 billion in the fiscal year, which ended March, 1995. With operations in more than 100 countries around the world the Fujitsu Group is one of the leading global vendors in a wide range of information technologies, including PCS, enterprise systems semiconductors, communications, software and services.

GroupWise 5, Novell's premier intranet application, is an expanded E-mail system that is the first in the industry to include full document and image management capabilities as part of a new Universal Mail Box. GroupWise 5 helps companies leverage their corporate network investments by providing an instant collaborative solution for the corporate intranet. Building on GroupWise 4.1, GroupWise 5 seamlessly integrates calendaring/scheduling, task management, shared folders, conferencing, workflow and Internet access into the Universal Mail Box. Additional information about GroupWise can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise.

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