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Novell Announces GroupWise 5.1 Next Step for Leading Intranet Collaboration Product Offers Improved Performance, Scalability and Internet Enhancements OREM, Utah -- February 6, 1997 -- Novell, Inc. today announced GroupWise 5.1, the upgrade to GroupWise 5, Novell's premier collaboration product for intranets. GroupWise 5.1 offers significant improvements in performance, speed and scalability of the product, as well as key Internet enhancements. The GroupWise 5.1 upgrade will be available by the end of first calendar quarter 1997 at no cost to current GroupWise 5 customers. "GroupWise 5.1 is the next step in our effort to provide customers with the most advanced set of collaboration tools and the greatest amount of flexibility in how they implement and use them," said Stewart Nelson, vice president and general manager, Novell Applications Division. "This commitment to our customers has made GroupWise the groupware product of choice for more than seven million users." GroupWise performance improvements fall into two categories: enhancements that improve the overall capacity and throughput of the GroupWise system and enhancements that improve the GroupWise client's responsiveness to the end user. For example, client/server connections and other operations have been optimized, resulting in reduced overhead, faster start-up, reduced memory requirements at the server, and increased message throughput. The innovative document management functions of GroupWise have also been enhanced, resulting in improved import/migration of documents, as well as improved document creation operations. In addition, significant enhancements were made to the GroupWise full-text query capabilities, which allow users to search GroupWise libraries for information (messages, documents, appointments, notes, tasks, etc.). These enhancements result in faster response time to queries. One example of this improvement is the immediate return of partial search results. This means that a user can start to work with the initial search results from his/her query while the GroupWise system continues to process the search in the background. Subsequent search results are returned to the user as they become available. The feature enhancements for GroupWise 5.1 include support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) on the client, support for embedded URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), and multi-user calendar printouts. LDAP is an industry standard protocol for directory access. With the provided LDAP support, GroupWise users can look up user information via any LDAP-compliant directory service as easily as from their personal address books and from the GroupWise system address book, which is based on Novell Directory Services (NDS). With the release of GroupWise 5, users were able to send World Wide Web URLs to other GroupWise users. Now, with GroupWise 5.1, any URL included in the subject or message body of any GroupWise message is automatically detected and hyperlinked to the user's default browser. This allows the recipient of a message that references information on the World Wide Web via URL to immediately follow the reference to that information. Like GroupWise 5, GroupWise 5.1 offers cross-platform, expanded E-mail solutions, including full document management capabilities, as part of its Universal Mailbox. The Universal Mailbox gives users single-point access to personal calendaring, group scheduling, tasks, voice mail, faxes and other message types both from the desktop and via the Internet using GroupWise WebAccess. GroupWise WebAccess allows users to access the Universal Mailbox from any HTML-compliant Internet browser. GroupWise 5.1 natively supports open Internet standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, SMTP/MIME and LDAP (client), with support for IMAP4, POP3, NNTP, S-MIME and LDAP (server) due shortly. This combination of Internet support and rich functionality makes GroupWise the first of a new breed of expanded E-mail systems to offer intranet-ready collaboration and full functionality out of the box. And, with its open Object API, customers now have the option of customizing their GroupWise solution. GroupWise 5.1 Upgrade Window Under the terms of the GroupWise upgrade program, users who purchase(d) new GroupWise 4.1 licenses, upgrade licenses to GroupWise 4.1 or new GroupWise 5 licenses between August 1, 1996, and 30 days after GroupWise 5.1 ships are eligible to receive an equal number of GroupWise 5.1 licenses at no additional cost by submitting a claim no later than 60 days after GroupWise 5.1 ships. International customers are eligible for the free upgrade on purchases made up to 30 days after international versions of GroupWise 5.1 ship, and may submit claims no later than 60 days after international versions of GroupWise 5.1 ship. Licensed users of SoftSolutions 4.x are also eligible for a free upgrade to GroupWise 5.1. SoftSolutions 3.1a customers have two upgrade paths available to them: they may either purchase SoftSolutions 4.1 upgrade licenses or they may purchase GroupWise 5.1 licenses at the upgrade price. SoftSolutions, Novell's document management software, works independently of GroupWise 4.1. With GroupWise 5.1, however, Novell has strategically integrated document management features and functions into GroupWise. Users of the leading MHS-based applications are currently eligible for reduced upgrade pricing from MHS to GroupWise 4.1. MHS customers who upgrade to GroupWise 4.1 during the GroupWise 5.1 free upgrade window may submit claims to receive free upgrades to GroupWise 5.1 no later than 60 days after GroupWise 5.1 ships. The message handling capabilities in GroupWise 5.1 are the culmination of a multi-year effort to combine the openness of MHS with the robust functionality of the GroupWise messaging system into a single messaging standard. GroupWise 5.1 Pricing and Availability GroupWise 5.1 pricing will be identical to GroupWise 5 pricing. The GroupWise 5.1 Mailbox license, which starts at $718 SRP for a 5-user license and goes to $32,625 SRP for a 250-user license, comes with everything necessary for a typical GroupWise solution. This includes the GroupWise desktop and remote clients, NWAdmin administration module, remote async and X.25 gateways, server agents and the MHS gateway, as well as migration tools to allow users to move from competitive E-mail systems. GroupWise 5.1 clients in English and German are expected to be available by end of first calendar quarter 1997. Additional language versions, including Japanese, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Brazilian, Russian, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish will follow shortly after. Additional information about GroupWise can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise or through any Novell office. 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 and NetWare are registered trademarks, and GroupWise, IntranetWare, Novell Directory Services, NDS and NetWare Administrator are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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