Wingra Technologies Releases Missive Version 3.0.MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 1997-- Flagship Product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. Now Supports Sun Solaris Platform Wingra Technologies Incorporated is now shipping Missive Version 3.0. Missive, the company's Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. e-mail switch, has been available on the 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and Digital VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. platforms since 1993. With Version 3.0, Missive's functionality is now available for Sun Solaris. "Sun applauds Wingra Technologies for porting their high performance messaging integration products to the widely installed Solaris platform," said Roger Nolan, Messaging Products Marketing Manager for Sunsoft Inc. "Sun considers Wingra's messaging integration products to be 'best of breed' in the world of legacy e-mail services." "The messaging interconnect market is changing rapidly," states Joyce Graff, Research Director, Electronic Workplace Technologies at Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. of Stamford, Connecticut. "Buyers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. products that are easy to install and manage, yet have enough capacity and flexibility to solve enterprise connection issues." David Ferris of Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based research firm specializing in electronic messaging said, "Wingra provides the easiest to implement UNIX-based messaging switch and directory synchronization product on the market today." He applauded Wingra's decision to port to Solaris because Missive's SMTP/MIME, X.500, and web-based access and management standards fit perfectly into SunSoft's architecture. Missive Version 3.0 includes the following new features and benefits: -- Sun Solaris Platform Support - Missive is now available for Sun Solaris version 2.5 or later. -- PROFS, OfficeVision/VM and Microsoft Mail Directory Synchronization -- Version 3.0 incorporates new PROFS, OfficeVision/VM and Microsoft Mail directory synchronization capabilities to automate the grueling process of managing directory changes across these e-mail directories. Missive already supports automatic directory synchronization for Lotus cc:Mail and Notes. -- International Character Set Support - Missive Version 3.0 is a pioneer in the capability of supporting universal character sets. Issues such as handling Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. , the British pound sign, and French accents across different e-mail systems are now solved with Missive's compliance with the Unicode 2.0 standard. -- Netscape and Internet Explorer Compatible -- Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. e-mail users can benefit from Missive's new directory schema which enables them to click on their local address book and access their enterprise directory, which is actually Missive's X.500 directory, natively. For a Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer user in a large enterprise with disparate e-mail systems, this means their address book will now contain all of the e-mail users in their enterprise. -- Enhanced Delivery Report Mapping - Missive Version 3.0 has enhanced the mapping of delivery reports between currently supported e-mail systems. Version 3.0 has also added support for the new MIME Notary notary or notary public Public officer who certifies and attests to the authenticity of writings (e.g., deeds) and takes affidavits, depositions, and protests of negotiable instruments. Internet mail delivery- reporting standard. Delivery reports are commonly thought of as read receipt requests, but also include other delivery reports used by e-mail systems to verify delivery of messages. -- Organization-Based Directory - Missive's X.500 directory is now grouped according to organizational units. Typically this is used to organize people into functional areas like sales or marketing. Finding people in a large enterprise is now as simple as drilling down through the organization using a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "For our customers, Missive represents a way to achieve fail safe business communication with the shortest implementation period within the industry," states Jan Eddy, 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 Wingra Technologies Incorporated. "Version 3.0 continues our pledge to provide complete solutions with a high return on investment," Eddy said. "Missive allows organizations to migrate to new messaging technologies, react to mergers or acquisitions, or solve current messaging problems. By facilitating interpersonal communications, Missive helps organizations meet their objectives." Customers who are migrating to new groupware systems have welcomed Missive. Mike Miller, of the Missouri Department of Transportation The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Missouri. External links
According to Dave Nelson, Wingra's Product Marketing Manager, "Missive Version 3.0 extends to the Sun Solaris installed base the benefits of messaging and directory integration. Now companies who are moving to open e-mail standards or groupware systems can do so more quickly, while still maintaining global e-mail access for everyone in their organization." About Wingra and Missive Founded in 1983, Wingra Technologies Incorporated is the worldwide leader in software for messaging integration based on Internet standards and ease of use. The company offers a wide range of products and services for large organizations, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more cost effective for people to take advantage of the full power of electronic messaging. Missive, Wingra's flagship product, provides e-mail integration, directory synchronization, and attachment conversion services. Missive's strengths are in its speed of implementation, ease of use, ease of management, use of Internet standard technologies (X.500, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. , Web, SMTP/MIME), and low cost of ownership. Missive fills a variety of needs including Internet mail access, integrating different e-mail systems, migrating to new groupware systems, or reacting quickly to mergers or acquisitions. Missive is available on the Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and Digital VMS platforms. Missive supports over 80% of the installed base of e-mail systems. The list of supported e- mail systems includes Lotus Notes, Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, Novell GroupWise, Novell MHS (1) (Message Handling Service) An earlier messaging system from Novell that supported multiple operating systems and other messaging protocols, including SMTP, SNADS and X.400. It used the SMF-71 messaging format. and Global MHS, Banyan BeyondMail, DaVinci eMAIL, SMTP/MIME (Netscape Mail, Eudora, Z-mail, Post.Office, POP3, IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol , Elm, Pine, Pegasus Mail, HP OpenMail, Sun SIMS, IBM sendmail), IBM PROFS, IBM OfficeVision/VM, Fischer's TAO and EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. 2, H&W's SYS-M, Digital's VMSmail, and Digital 's All-In-One. Missive is available through both Wingra Technologies and IBM's Software Vendor Marketing Partnership program. Pricing for a typical Missive configuration with two e-mail channels and Internet mail starts at $50,000 for the license and the first year's service. For more information, visit the Wingra web site at http://www.wingra.com All references to brands or trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Mary Reilly Progressive Strategies Inc. (212) 252-8000, Ext. 334 maryr@progstrat.com |
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