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[Fwd: HP mail & Linux]
After the discussion of mail systems at at yesterday's
meeting, this was in my mailbox when I got home.
It's overkill for a home user, but powerful stuff none
the less.
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Bruce Smith bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan 49093 USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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> OpenMail To Support Linux; Free Beta Version Now Available
> for Download
>
> August 3, 1999
>
> PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge
> Corporation --
>
> HP's Messaging/Collaboration Solution for the
>
> Linux Operating System is Proven, Robust and Fully
> Functional
>
> Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that OpenMail 6.0,
> HP's strategic business-messaging and collaboration
> solution for UNIX(R) system computers, also will support
> the Linux operating system. By supporting Linux, OpenMail
> 6.0 will provide its upgraded functionality and
> e-services(1) capabilities to the growing number of
> Linux-based businesses, offering a low-cost alternative to
> other enterprise-messaging solutions.
>
> HP expects OpenMail for Linux to be available in
> September. A free beta version is available now on the
> Internet at www.hp.com/go/openmail.
>
> "HP believes that many Linux-based businesses need the
> type of proven enterprise capabilities that today's
> OpenMail customers enjoy," said Nigel Upton, general
> manager of HP's OpenMail business. "OpenMail gives the
> Linux community a compelling alternative to 'generic'
> Internet e-mail servers. "
>
> OpenMail: Proven Capabilities and Robust Functionality
>
> In addition to robust Internet e-mail-standards support,
> the Linux edition of OpenMail will include rich support
> for Microsoft(R) Outlook (including full wide-area
> calendar/schedule access) and OpenMail 6.0's new Web
> client.
>
> As the only non-Microsoft server that supports the rich
> scheduling and collaboration functionality of Microsoft
> Outlook, HP's OpenMail 6.0 is a unique solution.
>
> HP showcased OpenMail's flexible and functionally rich
> Web-based technology at the 1998 World Cup soccer
> tournament. One OpenMail server successfully provided
> communications for thousands of journalists and officials
> across the tournament's wide-area intranet in France.
>
> Why Linux?
>
> "As the credibility and popularity of Linux continues to
> increase, HP wants to provide customers running this
> operating system with our premier business-messaging
> product for UNIX systems," said Upton. "Uniting the power
> of OpenMail with the growing strength of Linux provides a
> compelling new solution for businesses to deploy
> cost-effective yet robust messaging. "
>
> This announcement is part of HP's strategic vision to take
> the lead as a provider of Linux and open-source solutions
> for the deployment of Web/e-mail/infrastructure servers.
> HP expects strong demand for alternative system solutions
> and will provide continued development in this area by
> promoting HP value-added features, support for the
> open-source community and an excellent Linux hardware
> offering with the HP NetServer line of Intel(R)-based
> servers. HP is a sponsoring corporate member of Linux
> International, a non-profit organization consisting of
> industry influencers dedicated to the continuous
> open-source development of Linux.
>
> About OpenMail
>
> OpenMail is HP's strategic Linux and UNIX system
> business-messaging and collaboration solution, based on
> Internet standards. It is a proven, robust technology for
> building e-services solutions, running on HP-UX(2), Linux,
> AIX and Solaris. OpenMail has an installed base of more
> than 11 million seats, with representation in 60 percent
> of the Fortune 1000. OpenMail is designed for the
> heterogeneous environments often found in large
> enterprises and is used by many world-class businesses as
> the core of their communications and e-services
> infrastructures.
>
> More OpenMail information is available at on the Web at
> http://www.hp.com/go/openmail.
>
> About HP's Communications Industry Business Unit
>
> HP is powering the communications industry by supplying
> communications IT infrastructure to every Fortune 500
> telecommunications company in the world today. HP and its
> partners deliver management, network intelligence, billing
> and customer-care solutions for UNIX and Windows NT(R)
> system platforms, enabling service providers to migrate
> from network- to customer-focused business models as the
> Internet and telephony worlds converge. More information
> is available on the Web at http://www.hp.com/telecom.
>
> About HP
>
> Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of
> computing and imaging solutions and services for business
> and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the
> opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of
> electronic services.
>
> HP had computer-related revenue of $39.5 billion in its
> 1998 fiscal year.
>
> HP plans to launch a new company consisting of its
> industry-leading test-and-measurement, semiconductor
> products, chemical-analysis and medical businesses. These
> businesses represented $7.6 billion of HP's total revenue
> in fiscal 1998. With leading positions in multiple market
> segments, this technology-based company will focus on
> opportunities such as communications and life sciences.
>
> HP has 123,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue
> of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information
> about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program
> can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.
>
> (1) e-services -- HP envisions a world in which people and
> businesses derive new value from the Internet by moving
> beyond Web-based access to information to a world in which
> a rich array of nimble, modular electronic services,
> e-services, are accessible by virtually anyone and any
> device. HP has been working to solve the technical
> challenges that such a world presents -- inventing the
> devices and technologies that provide access, building the
> back-end systems that support the billions of Internet
> transactions generated, and developing the software that
> ensures information always is protected. The steward of
> distributed open systems, HP understand how to build this
> new open-services marketplace and will lead this next
> logical evolution of the Net, working closely with
> world-class partners.
>
> (2) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00
> and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all
> HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.
>
> Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The
> Open Group. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of
> Microsoft Corp. Intel is a U.S. trademark of Intel Corp.
>
> <<Business Wire, 08-02-99, 10:17 Eastern>>
>
> CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard | Richi Jennings, +44 (0)
> 1344-365870 | richi@hp.com | or | Copithorne & Bellows
> (for HP) | Mike Hulme, 415/975-2267 | mike.hulme@cbpr.com