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GroupWise 5 Available Worldwide Novell Continues Launch Momentum, Prepares Channel for Product Demand OREM, Utah -- October 15, 1996 -- Novell, Inc. today announced the worldwide availability of GroupWise 5, the company's premier intranet application. Novell officially launched GroupWise 5 at a milestone launch event last month in New York City, coinciding with the product's release to manufacturing. Novell shipped GroupWise 5 to its worldwide distribution channels last week. "GroupWise 5 is by far the best groupware product on the market today," said Randall Bennett, president of R.W. Bennett Corp., an authorized Novell Platinum Reseller. "Novell has delivered on its promise of providing a superior cross-platform, full-featured intranet collaboration tool right out-of-the-box. When you look at the competition, I think the decision becomes really easy as to which product is superior both in terms of technology and real, everyday business use." GroupWise 5 is an extended 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. The Universal Mail Box gives users single-point access to personal calendaring, group scheduling, tasks, voice mail, faxes, documents, images and other message types both from the desktop and via the Internet using GroupWise WebAccess. GroupWise WebAccess allows users to access the Universal Mail Box from any HTML-compliant Internet browser. With this version of GroupWise, Novell also is offering a Software Developers Kit and an open object API to support third-party development of complementary applications. This development support gives GroupWise the power and depth to address a very broad range of business needs. In addition, GroupWise 5 will natively support open Internet standards such as TCP/IP and SMTP/MIME, with support for IMAP, POP and LDAP due shortly. "GroupWise 5 is a culmination of years of experience, development and cooperation with our customers and partners," said Stewart Nelson, senior vice president and general manager of Novell's GroupWare Division. "The customer demand for this product is unbelievable. The on-time delivery of GroupWise 5 is a huge step in the evolution of collaborative computing for the intranet." To prepare its channel for the release of GroupWise 5, Novell launched an extensive campaign to educate its resellers and partners about the product and to provide local marketing tools for GroupWise 5. A 47-city worldwide tour conducted this summer provided an estimated 12,000 resellers, distributors and dealers with GroupWise 5 sales and technical training. Novell is also distributing more than 13,000 Market Builder Kits with a variety of sales and marketing tools to help the channel market GroupWise 5 locally. Novell's channel, the most extensive in the network computing industry, includes more than 150 distributors and more than 29,000 resellers worldwide. "GroupWise used to be one of the best-kept secrets in the industry, but with the hype surrounding the launch of GroupWise 5, that's all about to change," said Roger McNamara, president of Ascent Networking, an authorized Novell Gold Reseller. "We have a lot of customers who have held off making a purchasing decision until the release of GroupWise 5, and I think they'll find it was well worth the wait. GroupWise 5 offers a rare combination of Internet support and rich functionality out of the box, with the option of full customization and development, making it an ideal solution for organizations of all sizes."
Pricing, availability and platforms GroupWise 5 is available now through Novell authorized resellers worldwide. GroupWise 5 will be available at pricing and license stratification identical to GroupWise 4.1. The GroupWise 5 Mail Box license comes with everything necessary for a typical GroupWise solution. This includes the GroupWise desktop and remote clients; NetWare Administration Module (NWAdmin); remote, async and X.25 gateways; Message Transfer Agent; and MHS gateway, as well as migration tools to allow users to move from competitive E-mail systems. New product prices for GroupWise 5 range from $718 for a five-user license to $32,625 for a 250-user license. Upgrade prices range from $287 for a five-to-five user license upgrade to $13,050 for a 250-to-250 user license upgrade from any GroupWise 4.1 system or other qualified competitive trade-up. (All prices listed are in U.S. Dollars, SRP.) GroupWise 5 clients in English, Japanese and German are available now. Additional language versions, including French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Brazilian, Russian, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish will be available in December. GroupWise client versions for Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 are now available from channel partners, as is WebAccess for GroupWise 5. The GroupWise 5 Windows 95 and NT clients will support the full GroupWise 5 functionality, from document management to shared folders. The Windows 3.1 client is client/server and enables users to expand beyond their E-mail capabilities to access and manage personal calendaring, group scheduling, tasks, faxes and other message types from within a Universal Mail Box. In addition, the Windows 3.1 client includes cross-post office proxies, resizable views and GroupWise WebAccess, which allows users to access the Universal Mail Box via the Internet from any HTML-compliant Web browser. GroupWise server versions for NetWare 3, NetWare 4, IntranetWare and Windows NT are now available from channel partners. Macintosh and UNIX Motif clients and UNIX servers will be available within the first calendar quarter of 1997. Additional information about GroupWise can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise. Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet, intranet and small-business markets. Novell education and technical support programs are the most comprehensive in the network computing industry. Information about Novell's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com. Novell is a registered trademark and GroupWise, NWAdmin and Novell Directory Services are trademarks of Novell.
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