Accordance Licenses Intermail to AT&T; Intermail Will Be Messaging Component Of AT&T WorldNet Services.LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 1995--Accordance Corp. today announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with AT&T under which the Accordance Intermail Messaging Engine will be used as a message store component of AT&T WorldNet Services. Intermail will be used to accept messages from and route messages to the Internet, store mail in users' mailboxes, and manage users' access to their mailboxes. Designed to make the Internet as easy to use as the telephone, AT&T WorldNet Services provides powerful navigational and directory tools. Intermail delivers a reliable, fast, and high-volume e-mail solution for AT&T WorldNet customers. Accordance's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Intermail, is designed to be a core component of large-scale messaging-based applications for the Internet. Intermail is a true client-server electronic messaging See e-mail and messaging system. solution designed to provide robust message store functionality for all types of business data including text, graphics, audio and video. Intermail consists of software servers that connect to any Post Office Protocol (POP3) or Microsoft's Messaging Application Programming Interface (messaging) Messaging Application Programming Interface - (MAPI) A messaging architecture and a client interface component for applications such as electronic mail, scheduling, calendaring and document management. (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. ) clients running on MS-Windows PCs, Macintosh and Unix workstations. Intermail is optimized for use in AT&T WorldNet Services since its engine can support thousands of concurrent connections and millions of user mailboxes. "As Internet e-mail usage grows dramatically, the major online service bureaus are under pressure to deploy scalable, reliable, standards-based solutions," 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. "Scalability must be addressed from the conceptual design -- Intermail's architecture supports large-scale requirements. AT&T selected Intermail for AT&T WorldNet Services based on Intermail's ability to meet AT&T's requirements for supporting high volumes of Internet service subscribers." About Intermail To meet demanding Internet e-mail requirements, Intermail features multi-dimensional scalability. Intermail includes multi-threading servers, which enable it to scale as server hardware resources grow. To scale to new levels of storage, Intermail can store messages in industry leading relational databases from Oracle and Informix. Intermail also scales across machines by supporting distributed message store servers that appear as a single system image. The result is a distributed 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 that can be scaled in multiple dimensions by adding new hardware resources, new database technology, or new server machines, as required. Intermail is ideally suited to be a component of large scale messaging systems because of its extensible architecture. Intermail extensibility allows other components of the messaging environment to simply plug in either through standard interfaces or through extension of Intermail's object oriented See object technology and object-oriented programming. architecture. Components which plug in easily include client applications (e.g. the new Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. with integrated e-mail), message transfer agents The store and forward capability in a messaging system. See messaging system. (messaging) Message Transfer Agent - (MTA, Mail Transfer Agent) Any program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. (e.g. 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 directory services. "Intermail represents the leading commercially available product to support Internet messaging services of the scale of AT&T WorldNet Services," said Michael Sullivan-Trainor, Director of the Electronic Messaging and Internet Applications Group for International Data Corporation. "Accordance has focused development on what is fast becoming the recognized bottleneck for very large scale messaging systems - the message store - and delivered a product that is architected to scale as demand requires," he continued. About AT&T AT&T, a global communications and computer company, operates the world's largest and most advanced long distance network and provides communications services and products, as well as network equipment and computer systems, to businesses, consumers, telecommunications services providers and government agencies. Customers seeking information on AT&T WorldNet Services can access the AT&T home page at http://www.att.com/worldnet or send electronic mail questions about the service to worldnet@attmail.com. About Accordance Accordance Corp. is an emerging leader in providing high performance products to original equipment manufacturers in the electronic messaging industry. The company delivers scalable, extensible, standards-based messaging solutions to three markets: on-line service providers, corporate 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. providers and voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available. 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 Tim Hurley/Carolyn Wilkins Accordance Corp. Copithorne & Bellows 617-674-0100 X224 617-252-0606 stevek@accordance.com timh@ca.cbpr.com carolynw@ca.cbpr.com or Chris Pfaff Christopher Pfaff is better known as "Drama," on the hit MTV reality series Rob & Big. Pfaff, 20, is cousin to professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and brother to Scott Pfaff, a pro skateboarder as well. AT&T 908-658-5804 cpfaff@attmail.com |
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