NOVELL UNVEILS INTRANET ROADMAP FOR GROUPWISE
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Comtex, December 10, 1996
GroupWise 5 to Lead GroupWare Industry in Adoption of Java and
Internet
Technologies
OREM, Utah, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell, Inc.(Nasdaq: NOVL) today
outlined additional details for the evolution of GroupWise as the
industry's leading collaboration product for intranets. Novell will
extend the definition and functionality of collaboration over intranets
and the Internet by developing a universal GroupWise client based on Web
and Java technologies, as well as other emerging industry standards.
"We're going to change the way organizations view the groupware paradigm,
" said Stewart Nelson, vice president and general manager, Novell
GroupWare Division. "The reality is that most organizations are a
melting pot of technology, and they want their users, wherever they
happen to be and whatever platform they happen to be working on, to be
able to communicate and collaborate without having to replace an entire
technology infrastructure. And although we currently offer GroupWise for
a variety of platforms, our ultimate goal is to provide both intranet
and Internet users with robust collaboration tools that are truly
universal and platform-independent, while maintaining the security,
management and administration features that they've come to rely on from
GroupWise."
Today, GroupWise 5 is the industry's only expanded client/server E-mail
system to include full document and image management capabilities as
part of a new Universal Mail Box. The Universal Mail Box 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.
Over the next 12 months, Novell will expand GroupWise support for
Internet technologies and standards and introduce a more dynamic,
Java-enabled version of GroupWise WebAccess, as well as a separate
Java-based client. In addition, Novell will deliver the eagerly awaited
technology initiative, the Jefferson Project, which will allow
organizations to create and manage documents on the World Wide Web and
on corporate intranets.
Supporting Open Standards
Novell GroupWare Division has been a pioneer in the development and
implementation of industry standards and will continue to play an
integral role in the design of and adherence to future standards,
particularly as they pertain to the Internet.
GroupWise 5, which was released in September, currently provides native
support for open Internet standards and protocols, including SMTP/MIME,
HTML and TCP-IP, with support for POP3, LDAP (Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol), IMAP4, S-MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extension), NNTP and others available in the first half of next year.
Novell GroupWare Division participates in the following standards
organizations: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); Internet
Engineering Steering Group (IESG), which oversees the IETF workgroups;
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); and Electronic Messaging Association
(EMA).
GroupWise WebAccess
When GroupWise WebAccess 4.1 was released in July 1996, it was Novell's
first step toward the company's ultimate goal of a universal GroupWise
client. For the first time, Internet users had a single product by which
to communicate and collaborate with others over the World Wide Web. With
GroupWise WebAccess, GroupWise users can access their Universal Mail Box
from any machine with an Internet connection and an HTML-compliant
browser. GroupWise WebAccess 5 is in final beta and available to
GroupWise 5 users via Novell's Web site at
support.novell.com.
In the first quarter of 1997, Novell will unveil a Java-enabled version
of GroupWise WebAccess that will be compliant with any HTML 3.0 browser.
This version of GroupWise WebAccess represents the second phase of
Novell's plan to eventually offer a full-featured, universal GroupWise
client that will be platform-independent.
"Part of our decision to go with GroupWise was Novell's promise of a Web
client that would offer the full functionality that we rely on with the
desktop client. GroupWise WebAccess 4.1 was the first step in that
direction," said David Voran, executive director of information
technology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
"Our students and faculty currently use GroupWise WebAccess to
communicate and share information from anywhere a Web browser is
available -- on campus, at home, at a medical conference or out in the
field. By adding the ability to send attachments and other enhancements
to GroupWise WebAccess, we will be able to take collaboration to a whole
new level."
Jefferson Project
The Jefferson Project, code-named after the U.S. president who invented
the public library system, will allow GroupWise users to leverage the
powerful document management features of GroupWise to publish documents
to the Web as easily as assigning user access to documents within
GroupWise. Documents will reside in the GroupWise library and will be
dynamically published to the Web by a server process whenever they are
requested by a user, via a search or a specific URL. Any changes the
author/creator makes either to the content or the access privileges of
the document will be automatically reflected on the Web.
Users looking for specific information on the corporate intranet will be
able to search specific GroupWise libraries and will receive full-text
indexes of specific documents rather than hundreds of
difficult-to-decipher URLs.
"Trying to find something using standard web forms and browsers can be
either feast or famine," said David Strom, president of David Strom,
Inc., a Port Washington, NY-based consultancy and Internet expert. "It
is hard to know how to look for the right quality of information,
especially as files move about or change. Plus, the URL doesn't really
tell you anything about the document you are looking for -- it's just a
pointer to a place. The Jefferson Project technology will change all
that."
By eliminating the need to update documents and links on the corporate
Web site, Novell's Web document technology will simplify the
administrator's job. When documents are updated in GroupWise, they are
updated on the Web. GroupWise will automatically publish specified
documents to the corporate intranet or the Web, enabling Web masters to
spend more time performing mission critical work and less time
translating documents into HTML or writing CGI scripts. In addition, the
Jefferson Project technology will be integrated into the core GroupWise
system and will provide GroupWise administrators with a familiar
GroupWise interface for managing information on the Web.
For more information about GroupWise, call 800-861-2507 or visit
Novell's home page at novell.com.
Founded in 1983, Novell 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
novell.com.
NOTE: Novell is a registered trademark and GroupWise and GroupWise
WebAccess are trademarks of Novell. All other companies and products are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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