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Novell Unveils Free GroupWise Gateways for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Gateways ease migration and bring the manageability of GroupWise to mixed groupware environments PROVO, Utah -- January 26, 1998 -- Novell, Inc. today announced availability of a GroupWise® gateway for Lotus Notes and the beta version of a GroupWise gateway for Microsoft Exchange. These new gateways provide a unifying framework for network users with diverse collaboration solutions, easing migration and improving productivity through seamless interoperation between Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange. The GroupWise gateway for Lotus Notes is now available free for download on Novell's Web site, and the open beta of GroupWise gateway for Microsoft Exchange will be available free for download on Novell's Web site at the end of the first quarter of 1998. "These products are further evidence of Novell's commitment to giving businesses the freedom to choose the networking solutions that best meet their business needs," said Paul Smart, vice president, Novell Collaboration Services Group. "The Novell GroupWise gateways allow customers in heterogeneous environments to capitalize on the power of Novell GroupWise and Novell NetWare™ to provide advanced E-mail functionality, improved management and control, and fast performance." With the GroupWise gateways, companies can now enable various departments to communicate seamlessly and transparently with each other, regardless of the type of collaboration solutions they use. The gateways not only provide interoperability, but allow network administrators to easily manage heterogenous network environments. The GroupWise gateways offer Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange users an easy migration path to Novell GroupWise by allowing network administrators to effortlessly transfer individuals or groups to GroupWise; and by providing the new GroupWise user with an intuitive user-interface that requires minimal training. A migration capability is integrated into the gateway and is not a separate utility, which provides seamless co-existence of collaboration environments while executing a migration. In addition to easing migration issues, the GroupWise gateways for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange also effectively address interoperability challenges by allowing users of differing collaboration systems to seamlessly exchange messages and information, by transporting and converting GroupWise messages, including appointments, mail, notes, phone messages and tasks, into a mail message format supported by Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. Each gateway automatically converts GroupWise messages into the Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange message format and sends the message to its respective domain via its respective server. All features that are supported in each collaboration environment are preserved in the translation process. The GroupWise gateways translate messages sent to Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange users into the user's native message format, preserving all original message content. The Novell GroupWise gateways also make it easy for network administrators to keep all user lists and address books from each collaboration system synchronized and updated on a regular basis through support for directory synchronization and directory exchange. Once the gateways are configured and the directory exchange has taken place, each user can automatically access the names from all the address books within an organization regardless of the collaboration system in use. The GroupWise gateways recognize most of the send options native to Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, such as delivery status, priority status, timed delivery, security labels, reply requests and return notification. The gateway for Lotus Notes which runs on the OS/2 platform, requires GroupWise version 4.1 or higher. The GroupWise gateway for Microsoft Exchange which runs on the Windows NT platform, requires GroupWise 5.2 version or higher. The Novell GroupWise gateway for Lotus Notes is available free for download from the Novell Web site at http://www.novell.com/download. 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. Novell NetWare are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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