Attachmate's OpenMind wins Network Computing's "Editor's Choice" for enterprise-wide conferencing systems.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1996--Attachmate - The Intranet Company(tm) - announced that Network Computing's selection of OpenMind(r) from Attachmate Corporation won "Editor's Choice" over Netscape's Collabra Share(r) and SoftArc's FirstClass(r) for enterprise-wide conferencing systems.

In a March 15, 1996, cover story focusing on "any place, any time groupware" the products were evaluated on a weighted features scale measuring enterprise capability, performance, advanced group features, gateways, and customization.

"OpenMind enables us to communicate on a higher level, to get more work done more efficiently," said Michael Saunders, systems analyst in the Administrative Services Department of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. "The connectivity allows us to provide input into a document without waiting until all of us are sitting in the same room."

OpenMind from Attachmate(r) allows companies to quickly set up an internal corporate Intranet 3/4 by combining group conferencing, document management, electronic publishing, and workgroup enhanced Internet access. OpenMind gives businesses an extremely easy-to-use, deeply collaborative workspace enabling groups working together to exchange ideas, share files, blend internal data with external information, and manage the Intranet's resources in an organized, logical, and seamless manner.

With complete Web and HTML integration, bi-directional NetNews group discussion capabilities, interactivity with corporate e-mail applications, and more than 150 document-viewers -- this product is one of the most innovative solutions of its kind.

The evaluation awarded OpenMind a perfect score in the category "enterprise capability" 3/4 the only perfect score in the entire comparison. According to Network Computing: "OpenMind is more advanced...as a large enterprise product, especially with its powerful multiserver replication and communications capabilities."

"Moreover," the article continued, "OpenMind Clients know many proprietary file formats that let users with different desktop software share information without sharing applications." The publication also listed group editing, OLE command scripting, and server-resident hierarchical storage of forums as valuable features of OpenMind.

"Network Computing's selection of OpenMind as 'Editor's Choice' confirms Attachmate's commitment to providing enterprise-wide solutions for Intranet computing, by allowing corporate users to create a virtual 'instant Intranet' to access, share and manage information regardless of platform or location," said Matt Highsmith, vice president of corporate marketing for Attachmate. "OpenMind proved to be the most complete Intranet solution for large groups when compared against more publicized products such as Netscape's Collabra Share. OpenMind's multiplatform clients, strong enterprise-wide conferencing, security and document management features clearly set it apart from the other products."

Attachmate disclosed earlier this year that they will be soon delivering a 'webified' version of this award-winning product, which will dramatically extend the simplicity of collaborative features with Internet browsers. The full text of the article as well as additional product information and demonstrations can be found on Attachmate's home page @ www.attachmate.com.

Finally, on May 22, 1996, Attachmate and PC WEEK magazine will CO-sponsor Meeting of the Minds. This live worldwide satellite telecast titled "Building Secure Intranets 3/4 Bridging the Gap Between the Enterprise and the Internet," will present solutions by top industry luminaries from Attachmate, The Aberdeen Group, Microsoft(r), RSA, Verity, and Zona Research.

Meeting of the Minds will focus on the issues and technology of Intranets, the new corporate workspace where both information access and dissemination are limitless and where the enterprise and the Internet come together. For more information about Meeting of the Minds, please call 1-800-933-6790.

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Attachmate is a leading provider of high quality universal information access software and services that help organizations build secure Intranets. The company's object-oriented client, server, authoring tool, and management software safely link enterprise systems, Internet systems, and people. These solutions allow desktop and mobile users to transparently access, manage, and share any business information inside or outside the organization.

The company leverages its 14 years of corporate expertise in enterprise and Internet technologies by providing comprehensive and knowledgeable customer consulting and support services in more than 30 countries around the world to help organizations build high-performance and secure Intranet client/server systems. The sixth largest PC software company in the world, Attachmate employs over 2,000 people.

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