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60,000 MICROSOFT MAIL USERS CHOOSE NOVELL GROUPWISE
1,250 Organizations Look to GroupWise for Better Messaging Solution OREM,
Utah, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced that
60,000 Microsoft Mail users at 1,250 organizations have switched to Novell
GroupWise 4.1, a leading messaging solution that currently boasts more than 6
million users worldwide. The conversions are the result of a recent promotion
that offered 50 free GroupWise 4.1 client licenses, along with the GroupWise
4.1 migration and upgrade package, to NetWare customers currently running
Microsoft Mail (MS Mail). Announced in April after the release of Microsoft
Exchange 1.0, the promotion was designed to introduce GroupWise to MS Mail
users and to provide them with a robust messaging alternative to Exchange. Due
to the overwhelming response, Novell plans to continue the promotion through
July 31.
"Response to this program has exceeded our expectations and clearly
demonstrates that GroupWise 4.1 fills a void for users whose current E-mail
packages lack our full functionality," said Stewart Nelson, vice president and
general manager of Novell's GroupWare Division. "With its ease of use,
multiple-platform support and robust network administration capabilities,
GroupWise offers a compelling alternative to other messaging and collaborative
computing products."
As the 1996 winner of PC Week's First Annual Corporate IT Excellence Award for
Best GroupWare/Mail Solution, GroupWise 4.1 is the industry's premier
enterprise-wide, collaborative computing application; it fully integrates
E-mail, voice messaging, faxing, group scheduling, easy access to the World
Wide Web, personal calendaring, rules-based management and task management.
The GroupWise Universal In Box allows users to access, respond to and forward
electronic and voice information from one location, simplifying group
communication and collaboration across the network.
"By switching to GroupWise, we will be able to significantly increase end-user
productivity," said Mike Aken, IS Manager at the Arizona State Office of
Tourism in Phoenix, an organization that took advantage of the promotion.
"GroupWise's tightly integrated messaging and scheduling capabilities will
allow our users to work as a team, no matter where they are located. We expect
it to become as essential to our communication as the telephone."
The next generation of the product, GroupWise 5, is currently in beta testing
and scheduled to ship later this summer. GroupWise 5 will keep Novell at the
forefront of collaborative technology with an expanded client/server E-mail
system that seamlessly integrates calendaring/scheduling, document management,
task management, shared folders, conferencing, workflow and Internet access
into a new Universal Mail Box. Both GroupWise 4.1 and GroupWise 5 leverage the
administration and management capabilities offered by Novell's NetWare
Administration Module (NWADMIN) and Novell Directory Service (NDS), which help
organizations administer their network and GroupWise from a single location.
For more information about GroupWise or the promotion, customers can call
1-800-861-2507 or visit Novell's home page at novell.com.
Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is the world's leading network software provider. Novell
software provides the infrastructure for a networked world, enabling customers
to connect with other people and the information they need, anytime and
anyplace. Novell partners with other technology and market leaders to help
customers make networks a part of their everyday lives.
NOTE: Novell is a registered trademark and GroupWise is a trademark of Novell,
Inc.
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/CONTACT: Kristin Schultz, Media Relations Manager of Novell GroupWare
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