NEXOR Announces Messageware 3.0 - a Millennium-Compliant Messaging And Directory Suite for Mission Critical Messaging Applications.

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--

Government and military agencies to also benefit from Messageware's flexibility, interoperability and high-assurance features.

NEXOR, an international provider of mission critical messaging and directory solutions, today announced Messageware 3.0, a complete millennium compliant product suite. Primarily aimed at markets where high assurance standards-based messaging is vital (such as defense and government), the Messageware suite of products is being independently tested for Year 2000 compliance by the National Computing Centre (NCC) in Manchester, UK.

"As Y2K conformance is a critical issue facing all software applications, Nexor felt that self-certification was not sufficient for its customers, the majority of whom rely on Messageware for their mission critical systems," explained Steve Kingan, chief executive officer of NEXOR. "Therefore, Nexor asked the NCC, the messaging industry's conformance authority, to independently validate Messageware's functionality into the next Millennium."

In particular, NEXOR has focused on ease of use, platform independent management tools and enhancements for the features used most by customers. The Messageware 3.0 suite conforms to Internet, ISO and defense community standards and features four product families:

Messageware Mail Series

A messaging system capable of transferring up to one million messages a day between disparate systems over X.400 and the Internet. It features a management interface and distribution list manager for greater flexibility and control.

Messageware Directory Series

To meet the needs of the growing intranet/extranet environment which demands larger directories, NEXOR has incorporated object technology into its directory server, increasing performance and making it capable of storing more than 20 million entries. This award-winning, high performance directory server also provides full support for X.500 and LDAP. Enhanced security is also available with Messageware Directory Guardian which combines powerful directory and firewall technology to protect internal directories from unwanted external access.

Messageware Outlook Series

This is an award-winning product that enhances Microsoft Exchange and Outlook clients. Acting as a transport provider, it maps messages between Outlook/ Exchange and X.400. Users also benefit from access to enterprise directories via LDAP. An enhanced version, Messageware Defender for Outlook incorporates standard military practices and formats while supporting military messaging requirements using the P772 standard.

Messageware Motif Series

This is a sophisticated messaging client for Unix users that includes enhanced features specifically for military users and supports P772 standard.

Availability and pricing

NEXOR's Messageware 3.0 product suite will be available, worldwide, from early June 1998. A list of optional features is supplied with the client and server products to ensure that customers get a product tailored to their unique requirements - without paying for functionality that they will not be using. Thus, pricing is based on configuration and individual customer requirements.

About NEXOR

Formed in 1990, NEXOR delivers mission critical solutions to business and government organizations demanding a robust, secure and scalable messaging infrastructure. NEXOR's Messageware range of high-performance messaging and directory products meet the industry standards and conformance criteria demanded by these organizations.

Messageware products are used as the reference platform against which other standards-based products are measured by the UK's National Computing Centre in Manchester and the US Department of Defense, Joint Interoperability Test Center. More information on NEXOR can be found at the NEXOR web site located at www.nexor.com.

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