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To: flickerful who wrote (2940)	7/27/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: Frank Wechsler	Respond to of 10081

Any comments on the affect of this announcement? dailynews.yahoo.com Monday July 27 9:38 AM ET Universal Messaging Due By Carol Wilson, ZDNet A new company, working with such existing players as Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp., has devised a way to inexpensively connect most standard voice-mail systems with standard electronic mail to create universal messaging between the two, Inter@ctive Week has learned. Universal messaging is considered a hot application for network service providers because customers like the idea of accessing all their messages from one place, either a telephone or a PC. Emien, a privately held company launched three years ago, has created a voice-mail cartridge that can run on Sun Microsystems Inc. Solaris or Microsoft Corp. Windows NT servers and provide the link between e-mail and voice systems, such as those from Centigram Corp. and Octel Corp. A carrier can use this capability to create a universal messaging service that captures voice-mail from the proprietary systems, converts it into a .wav voice file and routes it to an e-mail box. In addition, Emien has worked with Oracle, Motorola and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, an interactive voice response company, to create a broader platform, called the UM3 Server, that can provide the interface to service provider billing and provisioning systems from an Oracle 8 Enterprise Edition object-relational database, and to wireless communications systems, via Motorola's Flex server. The platform includes text-to-speech capabilities from L&H that will convert e-mail to voice-mail. Emien can be reached at www.emien.com