BellSouth Taps Software.com to Deliver Advanced Messaging Platform; BellSouth's Consumer and Business Customers to Realize Benefits of Enhanced Email.Business Editors/High Tech Writers ATLANTA and SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 BellSouth Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) today announced its next-generation universal messaging platform - laying the foundation for its wireless and unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. services. Software.com's (Nasdaq: SWCM SWCM Software Configuration Management SWCM Special Warfare Craft, Medium SWCM Single White Christian Male SWCM Master Chief Steelworker (Naval Rating) ) InterMail(R) messaging platform will enhance BellSouth's existing messaging capabilities, providing its 750,000 BellSouth Web Mail and BellSouth.net(R) customers access to reliable and feature-rich email and messaging services. Software.com's InterMail platform is a key component of BellSouth's overall messaging strategy. With Software.com's InterMail software, BellSouth will deliver cutting-edge email and messaging capabilities to its consumer and business customers. Additionally, this new architecture will make "messaging access anywhere" possible for customers including unified and wireless messaging services. Customers will soon be able to communicate seamlessly across message formats (e.g. email, voicemail, fax, etc.) and devices (e.g. PC, phone, pager, RIM Interactive Pager, and Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. powered by BellSouth Wireless See BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network. Data) to stay in touch anytime, anywhere. "We are committed to providing our nearly 1 million customers with the most advanced messaging features available," said Ray Smets, president of BellSouth.net. "BellSouth selected Software.com due to its reliability and its advanced capabilities that will help us offer our customers new features in the near future such as enhanced email and Webmail services, enhanced Spam filtering and unified messaging. Customers of BellSouth.net Internet Service will now be getting the most advanced messaging platform available." "We are pleased to partner with BellSouth, one of the largest and most technologically advanced providers of telecommunications services in the United States," said John MacFarlane, founder 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 Software.com. "BellSouth has the architecture necessary to deliver differentiated messaging capabilities to multiple business units and their customers. We're excited to be part of BellSouth's ongoing mission to offer the very latest in integrated services, such as unified messaging and wireless messaging to their customers." Software.com's InterMail software is the first Internet messaging software that leverages a common architecture to allow service providers to offer network and device independent messaging services. Software.com's InterMail platform provides a high quality, extremely scalable platform that supports messaging in very high volumes; enabling telcos and ISPs to deliver messaging services uniquely tailored to both consumer and business end users. About BellSouth BellSouth is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to more than 36 million customers in 20 countries worldwide. BellSouth.net Internet services are an integral part of BellSouth's larger data strategy. BellSouth's data services-related revenues are growing at a rate of approximately 35 percent yearly and are projected to generate more than $5 billion annually by 2002. With 700,000 customers in 64 markets across the Southeast, BellSouth.net provides a free BellSouth-branded Internet Browser in both Windows(R) and Macintosh(R) versions, electronic mail and free access to expert Help Desk service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For more information about BellSouth, visit the BellSouth Web page at http://www.bellsouth.com. About Software.com Founded in 1993, and with over 56 million seats licensed, Software.com is a leader in carrier-scale Internet infrastructure applications for service providers. Built on native Internet standards and proven in real-world deployments to be scalable, highly reliable, available and manageable, InterMail is the first messaging platform to enable service providers to offer differentiated consumer, business and WebMail messaging services within a single architecture. Customers comprise many of the largest service providers worldwide, including: Excite@Home, Ameritech Interactive Media Services Ameritech Interactive Media Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of AT&T[1] that provides AT&T Yahoo!-branded Internet services to AT&T customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. , AT&T Canada, AT&T WorldNet(R) Service, Bell Atlantic Internet Service, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Internetworking Services, Cable & Wireless/HongKong Telecom, Pacific Internet, PSINet, Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , Road Runner, Telecom Italia Net, Telekom Malaysia, Telecom New Zealand Telecom New Zealand (NZX: TEL ASX: TEL NYSE: NZT) is a Wellington, New Zealand-based telephone company and, through its subdivision Xtra, an internet service provider. It has been run as a publicly-traded private company since 1990. and TeleDanmark. Software.com also has established strategic relationships with Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (formerly Bellcore), in order to further develop, market and sell its messaging solutions. With headquarters in Santa Barbara, the company maintains offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Software.com can be reached in the U.S. at 805/882-2470 or http://www.software.com. Note To Editors: Software.com, Post.Office and InterMail are trademarks or registered trademarks of Software.com, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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