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Novell Showcases Jefferson Project on WebTV Indian Wells, Calif. -- Feb. 11, 1997 -- Novell, Inc., today showed its technology initiative code-named Jefferson Project working on WebTV at Demo 97, the premier showcase for upcoming personal computer products and technologies. The Jefferson Project enables any GroupWise user to publish and update information on the Internet and intranets as easily as creating and modifying information within their favorite desktop application using the GroupWise document management system. The technology will go into open beta in April and is scheduled to ship this summer. The Jefferson Project leverages the document management capabilities of GroupWise, which currently gives users a single point from which they can create, view, edit, manage, communicate and share information. Documents residing in GroupWise libraries can be edited by any GroupWise user, with the appropriate access rights, from any networked or remote workstation. With the Jefferson Project, documents stored within GroupWise libraries that are defined as accessible to the Internet or intranet are dynamically published to the Web in HTML and assigned a specific URL. Any changes made to the content or the access rights of a document are automatically reflected in that document on the Web, eliminating the need for constant republishing of Web pages. "The Jefferson Project is one of the most compelling reasons I've seen to date for people to go out and buy WebTVs," said Chris Shipley, editor of DEMO Letter and host of DEMO '97. "The Jefferson Project will open Internet and Web publishing to that untapped group of potential users whose interface will be a television and access tool the remote control." "Showing the Jefferson Project working on a mass-market platform like the television demonstrates how easily Novell can offer the collaboration and communication capabilities of GroupWise to the largest potential group of Internet users," said Ed McGarr, vice president of marketing, Novell Applications Division. "The document management capabilities of GroupWise as leveraged by the Jefferson Project make it as easy for anyone to access published information on the Internet as it is to access programs on television." Benefits to Webmasters and Users In addition to making Web publishing easy for all GroupWise users, the Jefferson Project makes maintaining a consistent look and feel for Web sites easy for Webmasters through the use of conversion templates. Webmasters may choose from pre-set Web-site presentations, including buttons and other graphical elements, or may customize a look for their particular organization's Web site. Any document that has been saved in a GroupWise library and marked as a shared Internet or intranet document will automatically be converted to HTML and will reflect the organization's look and feel whenever it is requested by a user. The Jefferson Project is intelligent enough to designate multiple presentations of the same document to accommodate the diverse Internet presentation capabilities of desktop computers, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and televisions. Within the GroupWise document management system, all documents remain in the native format in which they were created, allowing users to easily update documents they have posted to the Web without having to learn HTML. All changes to a document are reflected immediately, ensuring that users' subsequent requests for that document will always return the latest update. When long documents, such as research papers, are requested from users on the Web, the Jefferson Project automatically publishes a table of contents to the users, saving Web users -- especially home users relying on modems -- unnecessary waiting time by allowing them to preview lengthy documents before choosing to download them. The table of contents feature also lets users download a portion of a document rather than the entire document. The Jefferson Project recognizes and converts more than 250 document types using pre-set "style sheets" to determine where to make breaks and insert headings depending on the type and format of the document. By leveraging the innovative document management capabilities of GroupWise, the Jefferson Project allows Internet and intranet users to perform detailed searches for specific types of information. Rather than sorting through long lists of URLs returned in response to a simple query, Web users can use the Jefferson Project to drill down to specific categories and locations so that the system returns a small set of relevant entries in response to a query. In addition, the unique URLs returned as part of searches may be E-mailed, and the E-mail will retain its hot-link to activate a browser when clicked upon. Pricing, Availability and Platforms The Jefferson Project will go into open beta in April and will be available for download from Novell's Public Beta Web site at http://support.novell.com/home/pubbeta/. The Jefferson Project is server-based technology that is integrated with GroupWise and will be available for IntranetWare and Windows NT environments. Further details on pricing, upgrades and distribution will be made available when the product ships this summer. GroupWise is Novell's premier collaboration product for intranets and is the industry's only expanded E-mail system to include full document management capabilities as part of a Universal Mailbox. The Universal Mailbox also 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 Mailbox from any HTML-compliant Internet browser. Additional information about GroupWise and the Jefferson Project 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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