NetManage Revolutionizes the Corporate Internet with Chameleon Enterprise; The Industry's First Front Office and Back Office Internet Solution.CUPERTINO,, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1995--NetManage, Inc., the leader in TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. for Windows applications, introduced today Chameleon Enterprise, a set of three core technologies that revolutionizes the way people in corporate environments utilize their internal network. Chameleon Enterprise is comprised of Chameleon Desktop, Chameleon Internet Server and Chameleon Protocol Extensions and allows users to collaborate, communicate and publish internal information and documents on their network using Internet technology. According to Rick Villars, Director of Network Architectures and Management for International Data Corp., "Today, many corporations want to extend their corporate network using basic Internet technologies such as NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System , Telnet and FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to as well as leading-edge technologies such as the World Wide Web and video conferencing. The latest release of NetManage's Chameleon Desktop addresses the changing way that corporations want to use TCP/IP and the Internet." Communication, Sharing and Collaboration Corporations are increasingly using Internet technology to breakdown barriers of communication, information sharing and to facilitate collaboration within their workgroups and departments. Chameleon Enterprise allows corporations to build business solutions such as customer support systems, sales management, human resource benefits enrollment, and other information sharing programs using Chameleon Desktop, Chameleon Internet Server, and Chameleon Protocol Extensions. Cost of deployment is reduced by inheriting the ease-of-use of the Windows NT server platform and the growing knowledge of individuals who know how to use the Internet. Chameleon Enterprise debuts in the latest releases of the Chameleon product family for Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT. "Chameleon Enterprise allows corporations to address the growing trend of using Internet technology to facilitate communication, sharing and collaboration. Web and Internet technology has evolved to be a platform for internal business solutions. With Chameleon Enterprise, NetManage is introducing a strategy and a set of products that will make the Web and the Internet a fundamental component of corporate workgroup computing strategies," said Zvi Alon, 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 NetManage. Chameleon Desktop The Chameleon Desktop addresses six fundamental internetworking application groups: Host Connectivity, E-mail & Messaging, File and Print Sharing, Internet Access, Desktop Management and Workgroup Collaboration. New to the Chameleon Desktop are applications including: InPerson whiteboard conferencing with audio and video conferencing capabilities; Advanced Web HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. 3.0 extensions for WebSurfer including foreground and background colors, tables and text wrap and extensions for inline video; SmartPOP in NewtMail allows users to specify selective download of messages based on size or message subject line. SmartPOP is ideal for remote users allowing them to optimize their connect time to their home office; Advanced VT340 and VT420 emulation or REGIS graphics so users can run graphics based UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). applications from their own PC. More detailed product information may be found in the Chameleon Desktop Highlight sheet. Chameleon Internet Server Chameleon Internet Server provides the foundation to collaborate, communicate and publish internal information and documents using Internet technology. Chameleon Internet Server includes: World Wide Web, FTP (File Transfer Protocol A communications protocol used to transmit files without loss of data. A file transfer protocol can handle all types of files including binary files and ASCII text files. See Kermit, Zmodem and FTP. ), NFS (Network File System), DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the (Domain Name System) and LPD See LPR/LPD. (Line Printer Daemon/Line Printer Remote), servers for Windows NT. Chameleon Internet Server inherits the security and administration model of Windows NT reducing the complexity of administration and setup typically associated with implementing these services on UNIX. Chameleon Protocol Extensions NetManage's TCP/IP engine is a combination of TCP/IP protocols plus a powerful set of DLLs (Dynamic Link Library A set of program routines that can be called at runtime as needed. See DLL. dynamic link library - Dynamically Linked Library ) with APIs (Application Program Interface) that allows developers to extend and customize the protocol support in Chameleon or Microsoft's bundled TCP/IP stack. These APIs include: FTP, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. (Simple Network Management Protocol), 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. (Simple Mail Transport Protocol), RPC (Remote Procedure Call), Telnet, WinSock (Windows Sockets), World Wide Web and more. By building on this core set of capabilities corporate developers can quickly develop network applications without having to reinvent the protocol work NetManage has done. For example; a Chameleon user can use the Chameleon Protocol Extensions while running the Microsoft stack and a network administrator will be able to remotely monitor all Windows application activity on that specific PC. Pricing and Availability Chameleon for Windows is priced at $400.00 per single copy and ChameleonNFS for Windows, Chameleon for Windows 95 and Chameleon for Windows NT are priced at $495.00 per single copy. All products will be available in quarter four of 1995. For further information contact NetManage at 408/973-7171 or WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. .netmanage.com. About NetManage NetManage Inc., the fastest growing software company in the United States, develops markets and supports an integrated set of Internet-based applications, servers and development tools for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT. NetManage software allows corporations to facilitate communication, sharing of information and collaboration between workgroups using Internet technology. The company's award winning products include Chameleon, Internet Chameleon and ECCO An earlier Windows PIM from NetManage, Inc., Cupertino, CA (www.netmanage.com). ECCO provided a phone book, calendar, to-do list, outlining and notetaking. It was noted for its tightly integrated and sophisticated functions. . NetManage is a public company, whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the ticker symbol NETM. Its products are sold world-wide by NetManage's direct sales force and authorized channel partners. -0- Chameleon Desktop Highlight Sheet InPerson, NetManage's whiteboard conferencing application, now includes audio and video conferencing capabilities. InPerson is compatible with Silicon Graphics' conferencing application so SGI workstation users can also participate in video conferences with PC users. Chameleon's NEWTMail now supports SmartPOP, routing, priorities and 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. . SmartPOP allows users to set a maximum size for messages they will download. This prevents dial-up users from having to download large attachments before seeing the rest of their messages. Routing allows users to send an email, such as an expense report, to a pre-defined set of users in a pre-set order. The priority setting allows users to mark their messages as high, medium and low priority and view them in colorized icons based on level of importance. MAPI support includes a MIME translator. When users of MAPI enabled applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel use the "send" option their document will get translated into a MIME attachment in NEWTMail and a message will get created automatically. This means that users do not need to save their document and open mail to create a message. WebSurfer, NetManage's World Wide Web client now supports advanced WEB HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) 3.0 extensions including foreground/background colors, tables and text wrap. Additionally, NetManage has added its own HTML extension for inline video support. Inline video allows users to play a video file on a web page without launching an external viewer or changing pages. WebSurfer also includes a folder based hotlist A listing of the best of something. It typically refers to the most popular Web sites. (World-Wide Web) hotlist - (From hypertext "hot spot") A document on the World-Wide Web or a user's browser configuration file containing hypertext links, often unorganised and so users can track their favorite World Wide Web sites in labeled folders and revisit them by double clicking. NetManage's WebSurfer has also been extended to be an OLE (Object Linking Embedding) container and is the first to support VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. (Virtual Reality Modeling Language (virtual reality, language) Virtual Reality Modeling Language - (VRML) A draft specification for the design and implementation of a platform-independent language for virtual reality scene description. VRML 1.0 was released on 1995-05-26. http://vrml.org/. Wired. ). The OLE container can be used along with the new NEWTNews OLE server so a full graphical news reader can be used within WebSurfer to read newsgroups. The VRML support means that users can visit VRML Web sites and move through a home page in 3D. New Internet applications in Chameleon 4.6 include IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Computer conferencing on the Internet. There are hundreds of IRC channels on numerous subjects that are hosted on IRC servers around the world. After joining a channel, your messages are broadcast to everyone listening to that channel. (Internet Relay Chat See IRC. (chat, messaging) Internet Relay Chat - (IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A client-server chat system of large (often worldwide) networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet servers, each accepting connections from client programs, one per user. ) and an HTML editor. Using IRC, users can participate in online real-time discussions on the Internet on a range of topics. The HTML editor allows users to create their own home pages without knowing the syntax of HTML. Home page authoring is as simple as writing a letter. Telnet's emulation now includes advanced VT340 and VT420 emulation. The VT340 emulation provides REGIS graphics so users can run graphics based UNIX applications from their PC. Chameleon's Desktop Management support has been extended with two new MIBs (Management Information Base): hard drive utilization and installed software. NetManage's desktop management software, NEWTWatch can be used to find out whose PC is low on space or how many people have a copy of software installed. -0- Note to Editors: Enterprise Chameleon, Chameleon Internet Server, Chameleon Protocol Extensions, NEWTWatch, Chameleon and NEWTMail are all trademarks of NetManage Inc. All other brand names mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks with their respective holders, and are hereby acknowledged. CONTACT: NetManage Inc. Donna Loughlin, 408/973-7171 Donna@netmanage.com |
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