ACCORDANCE CORPORATION ANNOUNCES ENHANCED VERSION OF CLIENT SERVER MESSAGING ENGINE.NEW ORLEANS New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1995--Accordance Corporation, an emerging leader in electronic messaging See e-mail and messaging system. software, today introduced an enhanced version of its client/server electronic messaging engine, Intermail 1.1, at the Electronic Messaging Association (EMA (1) (Enterprise Management Architecture) An earlier strategic plan from Digital for integrating network, system and application management. It provided the operating environment for managing a multi-vendor network. ) conference. By offering new levels of reliability and scalability, while providing concurrent support for tens of thousands of users, Intermail 1.1 is now positioned as a core enabling technology for enterprise messaging system An enterprise messaging system (EMS) is a set of published Enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. and on-line service providers. "Today, the biggest challenge for messaging infrastructures lies in the requirement for scalability to hundreds of thousands or even millions of users. Intermail 1.1 is the only open, standards-based messaging technology that can satisfy the scalability demands of on-line service bureaus that provide Internet and X.400 access," said Valdur Koha, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Accordance. "Intermail will serve as the foundation technology that will provide high performance services for messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent providers well into the next millennium." Intermail 1.1 includes the following feature enhancements: Support for relational databases (Oracle and Informix) to store messages in the same manner as mission critical data. Multi-threading servers that better leverage Unix system resources and scale with additional CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. power. An Extended MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. Service Provider Interface that allows all MAPI clients to access the services of the Intermail Messaging Engine. A Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) interface that allows clients which support POP to utilize the services of the Intermail Messaging Engine. A Directory Broker that allows multiple Message Store Servers to deploy in a distributed environment. A core component of Intermail's strength is its ability to meet demanding messaging requirements by offering multi- dimensional scalability. Intermail contains multi-threading servers, the ability to store messages in industry leading relational databases, as well as support for distributed message store servers that appear as a single system -- all of which results in a messaging system that can be scaled in multiple dimensions by adding new hardware resources, new database technology or new servers. Pricing and Availability Intermail is now available to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) including large scale system suppliers and on-line service bureau providers, with a suggested list price of $80 per mailbox. Intermail operates on Solaris, SunOS, UnixWare, SCO Unix, and IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. servers. It also supports X.400 `88, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. and MIME natively. Accordance Corporation is an emerging leader in providing enabling technology to original equipment manufacturers in the electronic messaging industry. The company delivers reliable and scalable messaging solutions that are a fundamental component of the communication infrastructure in three markets: on-line service providers, corporate enterprise messaging system providers and voice messaging system providers. Privately held, Accordance was founded in 1994 with corporate headquarters in Lexington, Mass. -0- Intermail is a trademark of Accordance Corporation. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Steven Karlson Accordance Corporation (617) 674-0100 x224 stevek@accordance.com or Tim Hurley/Carolyn Wilkins Copithorne & Bellows (617) 252-0606 5193321@mcimail.com |
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