NEXOR Messageware X.400 MTA is industry's first fully certified product for DMS.

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1997--

Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) technology is certified for

use in U.S. Defense Message System applications and is

available now.

NEXOR, an international electronic messaging and directory technology provider, today announced full availability of the first X.400 Message Transfer Agent (MTA) which is certified for use in Defense Message System applications.

The certification is for NEXOR Messageware MTAs deployed on Hewlett-Packard UNIX-based systems. The same MTA product is also available for other UNIX-based platforms, and certifications for these are expected later in 1997.

The Defense Message System will replace the aging AUTODIN messaging systems used by United States defense and intelligence communities worldwide. The Messageware MTA is the first X.400 MTA to be certified for use in the DMS, which was awarded in May 1995 and is to be functional by December 31, 1999. Messageware messaging, directory, and user agent products are used by NATO governments including Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as major international companies such as BASF, AMD, WorldCom and the World Bank. The Messageware MTA was the first MHS-88 X.400 product to be listed in the US GOSIP Register and can be purchased directly or through existing government contracts.

"The [DMS] contract allows users to buy DMS products from companies other than those on the DMS contract...", said Lieutenant General Albert J. Edmonds, Director Defense Information Systems Agency in the January 1996 issues of CHIPS (the quarterly magazine of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command). "Products that are not certified will not be hooked into the DMS network. It's that plain."

"The defense community has been waiting for the availability of DMS-certified products to begin the move away from AUTODIN", said Steve Kingan, Chief Executive of NEXOR. "The Messageware MTA gives them a proven, commercially available product which can provide the basis for DMS messaging solutions ranging from the DISA interagency backbone down to the base level."

NEXOR currently provides the Messageware MTA to the DMS program through an agreement with CommPower (Communications and Power Engineering, Inc.), a California-based security and systems integration company. The MTA is incorporated into the DMS Mail List Agent (MLA), Multi-Function Interpreter (MFI), and Profiling User Agent (PUA). CommPower is the originator of the first two components, while Xerox Information Systems is responsible for the PUA.

NEXOR's Messageware products are used by the U.S. Navy and the General Services Administration (GSA). They are also used as a reference platform to evaluate other implementations of standards-based messaging products by the United Kingdom's National Computing Center in Manchester and the U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Interoperability Test Center.

Research into messaging and directories leading to the development of the Messageware software began in 1986 at University College, London and the University of Nottingham. In 1990, NEXOR, Ltd. was established to carry this technology to the commercial and government markets. NEXOR remains committed to the standards process and participates in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the U.S. Electronic Messaging Association (EMA), the European Electronic Messaging Association (EEMA), the World Electronic Messaging Association (WEMA), EuroSInet, British Standards Institute (BSI), and the Computer Software and Services Association (CSSA).

Formed in 1990, NEXOR is an international vendor of standards-based messaging, directory and electronic commerce technology with facilities in Gaithersburg, MD and Nottingham, Great Britain. It is at the forefront of software development with all of its Messageware products conforming to internationally recognized standards. -0- NEXOR is a trademark and Messageware is a registered trademark of NEXOR Limited. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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