Novell Unveils Broad Internet Collaboration Capabilities
GroupWise 5.2, Now in Beta, Improves Efficiency and Lowers
Cost of Collaborating on the Internet/Intranets
PROVO, Utah -- July 21, 1997 -- Novell, Inc.
today announced that GroupWise® 5.2 is currently in beta. The added
functionality found in GroupWise 5.2, the next version of
Novell's premier collaboration product for corporate networks and
intranets, will support a broad range of Internet standards and
improve the efficiency of work processes. In addition, it will
expand users' ability to access different types of information,
extend advanced collaboration to a variety of client platforms
right out of the box and offer improved administration and
management, which will allow users to realize substantial savings
in their cost of ownership.
"This product will solidify the GroupWise position as the
most sophisticated tool available in the Internet/intranet
collaboration space," said Stewart Nelson, vice president
and general manager, Novell Collaborative Services Group.
"GroupWise offers our customers the most robust,
platform-independent and secure set of collaboration tools
available, while maintaining the integrity of the system,
management and administration features they've come to rely on.
This commitment to our customers has made GroupWise the groupware
product of choice for more than eight million users and
partners."
"With the Internet standards support and sophisticated
collaboration planned in GroupWise 5.2, we will be able to
leverage the power of the Internet and intranets in our
network," said David Steel, office automation manager for
the City of Escondido. "With its out-of-the-box
functionality, GroupWise will also give us immediate results,
while allowing us to benefit from substantial savings in our
training and support costs."
Information on the GroupWise 5.2 beta can be found at Novell's
Web site at http://www.novell.com/groupwise.
Look under the "products" category for beta program
information.
Like its predecessor GroupWise 5.1, GroupWise 5.2 will offer
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
the Internet, 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 3-compliant Internet browser.
Internet Standards Support
The upcoming version of GroupWise will natively support IMAP4,
dial-up SMTP/MIME and POP3, in addition to supporting LDAP on
both the client and server. GroupWise 5.2 will also support
standards that were previously supported with GroupWise 5.1,
including HTML, HTTP and TCP/IP. Support for NNTP and S-MIME will
be available in future releases. 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. Also, with
the GroupWise Object API and Customer 3- rd Party Objects
(C3POs), customers and partners have the option of customizing
their GroupWise solutions.
Intranet Collaboration
GroupWise 5.2 will include a Java- and HTML 3-enabled version
of GroupWise WebAccess, the full- featured Web client. GroupWise
WebAccess makes it as easy to use GroupWise via the Internet as
it is to use on the desktop by creating an intuitive browser
interface that is virtually identical to the GroupWise desktop
environment. In addition, GroupWise WebAccess is the only product
on the market that gives users a single interface from which they
can send and retrieve E-mail, attachments, voice messages, faxes,
calendar items, appointments, tasks and documents over the
Internet.
Collaborative Functionality
In addition to the Internet standards support and intranet
collaboration in GroupWise 5.2, GroupWise users will be able to
further their collaboration efforts and continue to meet the
ever-changing demands of business with GroupWise WorkFlow,
GroupWise Imaging and expanded platform support.
While workflow has traditionally been available only to a
select group of individuals within an organization, GroupWise
WorkFlow brings workflow capabilities to every desktop. With the
GroupWise messaging system acting as the workflow transport,
users receive work items in the Universal Mailbox and can respond
to those items just as they would to incoming E-mail messages.
GroupWise Imaging is another example of how GroupWise is
expanding the Universal Mailbox. GroupWise Imaging merges the
traditionally separate areas of desktop and production imaging
and electronic publishing into a single collaborative imaging
environment. It allows users to leverage the E-mail, document
management and workflow features of GroupWise for electronically
scanned and stored images, resulting in the industry's first
"E-mail-enabled" image management system for the
desktop.
"GroupWise WorkFlow and GroupWise Imaging are inevitable
extensions of Novell's vision to provide users with a Universal
Mailbox where all of their information -- documents, E-mails,
faxes, voice mails and now workflow items and images -- is easily
and transparently accessible," Nelson said.
In addition to the platforms currently supported by GroupWise
5.1 (NetWare, IntranetWare, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows
NT), GroupWise 5.2 will provide client support for both Macintosh
(68000 and PowerMac) and UNIX (Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun
Microsystems). The UNIX clients will provide the same set of
capabilities as the Windows 3.1 client, including client/server,
E-mail, calendar, scheduling and task management. In addition,
the full set of UNIX agents will be available for
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems platforms.
Administration & Management
GroupWise users will also benefit from the improved
administration and management in GroupWise 5.2, which will allow
them to realize substantial savings in their cost of ownership.
- The 32-bit NetWare Administrator (NWAdmin™)
for Windows 95 and NT is a snap-in utility that will
offer network administrators a single point of
administration from which they can manage both GroupWise
5.2 and their network.
- GroupWise Monitor is a snap-in utility for use
with Novell's ManageWise™, a comprehensive,
end-to-end PC LAN management platform that increases
network reliability and performance while boosting
end-user and overall business productivity. GroupWise
Monitor allows a network administrator to dynamically
monitor and manage GroupWise SNMP-instrumented agents.
- The addition of the Administration API will allow
customers, systems integrators and third- party
developers to access the administrative functions of
GroupWise 5.2.
Upcoming Features
Future enhancements to GroupWise 5.2 will include support for
the Jefferson Project, the Web-based document management solution
that will allow GroupWise users to publish documents to the Web
as easily as assigning user access to documents within GroupWise.
The Jefferson Project technology will offer GroupWise users a
means for managing the complexity of corporate information on
intranets and the Web, while providing the security, management
and administration features -- through GroupWise -- required to
keep that information secure, up-to-date and easily accessible.
It will feature full-text indexing, search and retrieval,
automatic conversion to HTML, the ability to provide native
document format and mail documents. The ability to fax documents
is available through Novell's third-party development solutions.
Combined with GroupWise Workflow, the Jefferson Project
technology will provide users with a full- featured Web
publishing environment that will allow them to easily collaborate
on authoring, preparing and approving documents to be published
on the World Wide Web.
GroupWise 5.2 Upgrade Window
Under the terms of the GroupWise upgrade program, users who
purchase new or upgrade GroupWise 4.1, 5.0 or 5.1 licenses from
July 21, 1997 through 30 days after GroupWise 5.2 First Customer
Ship (FCS) in the Fall are eligible to receive an equal number of
GroupWise 5.2 licenses at no additional cost other than shipping
and handling. A valid proof of purchase will be required upon
submitting a claim.
GroupWise 5.2 Pricing
GroupWise 5.2 pricing will be identical to that of GroupWise
5.1, but will offer additional benefits -- Internet connectivity
and migration gateways to SMTP/MIME, cc:Mail and GroupWise
WebAccess. Migration gateways to Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange
and MS Mail will be downloadable from the web. The GroupWise 5.2
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, MHS
gateway and Message Transfer Agents, as well as migration tools
to allow users to move from competitive E-mail systems.
Additional information about GroupWise can be accessed on the
World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise
or through any Novell sales 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 GroupWise are registered trademarks. GroupWise
WebAccess and NWAdmin are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other
registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their
respective holders.
Media Contacts:
Shannon Harmon
Novell, Inc.
Phone: (801) 228-5126
Internet: smharmon@novell.com
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Cunningham Communication, Inc.
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