AW: Post.Office 3.0 vs. 2.0

Peter A. Sang ( (no email) )
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:37:39 +0200

Josh,
please find the information I received on April 10th attached.
cu, Peter

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>Von: Josh Hillman[SMTP:admin-maillist@talstar.com]
>Gesendet: Montag, 21. April 1997 18:13
>An: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>Betreff: Post.Office 3.0 vs. 2.0
>
>I was poking around at www.software.com looking for info on Post.Office
>3.0, but only found a link to a 3.0 beta-testing program along with the
>usual links to info about 2.0.
>
>Does anyone have any info on how 3.0 differs from 2.0?
>
>Josh Hillman
>hillman@talstar.com
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> NTISP Mailing List listserver@emerald.iea.com
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE=20
>
>For Press Inquiries, Contact:
>Steven Karlson Tim Hurley/Carolyn Wilkins
>Software.com, Inc. Copithorne & Bellows
>617-674-0100 x224 617-450-4300
>steven.karlson@software.com carolyn.wilkins@cbpr.com
>
>
>
>SOFTWARE.COM LAUNCHES MAJOR NEW VERSION OF ITS POST.OFFICE INTERNET
>MESSAGING SERVER
>
>Post.Office 3.0 Provides Internet Service Providers and Corporate =
Intranets
>With High Performance, Outstanding Reliability in Easy-To-Manage =
Messaging
>Solution
>
>Santa Barbara, Calif., April 8, 1997 -- Software.com, Inc., the leading
>provider of scalable Internet messaging server software, today =
introduced a
>major new version of its popular server product, Post.Office=D4. =
Post.Office
>3.0 fulfills the messaging requirements of the thousands of regional
>Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and corporate intranets worldwide by
>providing greater performance and reliability, simplified management
>features, proven scalability, as well as essential feature =
enhancements.
>
>More Capacity for ISPs
>For regional ISPs, whose primary messaging requirements are scalability =
and
>reliability, Post.Office 3.0 can now effectively support growth toward
>150,000 subscribers resulting from significantly greater message =
throughput
>performance than previous versions of Post.Office. Post.Office 3.0 also
>offers enhanced client session logging capabilities that allow system
>administrators to track messaging activity and monitor system response =
to
>peak traffic loads - a critical capability for any ISP. This enables =
system
>administrators to adjust hardware resources as necessary to support
>increased user demands.
>
>"Competition in the ISP marketplace is fierce, making the need for =
reliable
>e-mail systems that won't disappoint our customers a critical one.
>Software.com's Post.Office solution has enabled us to provide reliable
>messaging service to our customers for the past two years," commented
>Scotty McConnell, co-owner and systems administrator at ContiNet, a
>fast-growing, Oregon-based ISP. "The new List Manager simplifies the
>distribution of important messages to our clients, and has emerged as =
an
>additional service we can offer our customers, since they can take
>advantage of the messaging system's reliability to reach their own
>customers and contacts."
>
> Simple Yet Powerful Features for Corporate Intranets
>Post.Office 3.0 has also been enhanced to support the needs of =
corporate
>intranets, whose primary messaging requirements are not only =
scalability,
>but simple management features that provide reliable communications =
among
>user groups. To this end, Post.Office 3.0's full-feature, commercial- =
grade
>mailing List Manager offers simplified creation and administration of
>mailing lists for groups of users who share information on a common =
topic,
>supporting up to 30,000 separate user lists on a single server. All
>list-related operations can be handled through the web interface or =
through
>e- mail forms (or a combination of both), allowing list subscribers to
>review/subscribe to available mailing lists, change delivery modes, and
>perform search functions.
>
>In addition, Post.Office 3.0 gives corporate intranets greater capacity
>levels (or, support that consistently meets user demand) at =
price-points
>found nowhere else in the Internet messaging industry. For example,
>Post.Office 3.0 offers customers significantly greater message =
throughput
>performance than the current version of the Netscape Mail Server, for =
half
>the per-user license price. A similarly-configured system will support =
15
>Post.Office users for every one Netscape Mail Server user at the same
>performance level, making the task of deploying and managing a =
large-scale
>e-mail system considerably simpler and less expensive. Further details =
of
>the comparison between Post.Office and Netscape Mail Server can be =
found on
>the Software.com web site at http://www.software.com.
>
>"Post.Office 3.0 is the industry's first messaging server that delivers =
the
>level of performance and abundance of features required of a =
single-server
>implementation to dispel the notion that Internet e-mail is =
underpowered,"
>said John MacFarlane, Chief Executive Officer of Software.com. "As a
>company committed to delivering native Internet e-mail servers that =
meet
>the demands of the internetworked economy - including non-stop =
operation,
>performance that meets user demand, and management simplicity - the =
launch
>of Post.Office 3.0 further substantiates our role as a provider of
>messaging products that scales seamlessly from 10 users to millions of
>users."
>
>"In addition to making the setup and administration of Post.Office 3.0 =
even
>easier, Software.com has boosted the product's performance and =
scalability
>to support any level of user demand for Internet messaging," commented =
Mark
>Levitt, Research Manager, International Data Corporation. "This is good
>news for corporate intranets and regional ISPs for whom these features =
are
>of paramount importance."
>
>Post.Office will include IMAP4 support in the third quarter of 1997. =
LDAP
>support will come from Software.com's recent partnership will Cisco =
Systems
>and is expected to be included in Post.Office before the end of 1997.
>
>Solutions for Any User Community Size
>Complementing Post.Office, which is currently running on over ten =
thousand
>servers supporting more than one and a half million users, is
>Software.com's InterMail=D2 solution. As individual ISPs and corporate
>intranets push beyond the 150,000 user mark, these growing =
installations
>require messaging systems that can provide advanced scalability,
>availability and reliability. Software.com's InterMail is the only
>commercially available, native Internet messaging server that can =
deliver
>non-stop operation for these very large user installations, providing =
them
>with 'dial-tone' caliber messaging. InterMail offers a smooth upward
>transition from Post.Office to support this high-end user growth. The
>combination of Post.Office and InterMail is unparalleled for offering =
ISPs
>and corporate intranets the assurance that - regardless of the pace at
>which their user community grows - they will be able to leverage the
>industry's leading messaging technology to meet any-sized user demand.
>
>"There is tremendous corporate demand for extremely scalable POP =
servers -
>Software.com is one of the few companies with product in this space.
>Software.com also fills a gap for the ISP market for ultra-scalability =
with
>the InterMail line," commented Matt Cain, vice president of Workgroup
>Computing Strategies at The Meta Group.
>
>Pricing and Availability
>Post.Office 3.0 is currently in beta testing and will be generally
>available later this month on all major Unix and Windows NT platforms.
>Post.Office 3.0 is priced at $495 for a 100 user license. A package
>consisting of 100 user licenses and 100 list licenses is $795. =
Additional
>packages of 100 lists are $495 each.
>
>A special, limited-time promotion is available for qualified ISPs that
>purchase Post.Office 3.0 by September 30, 1997. For more information,
>please contact sales@software.com.
>
>About Software.com
>Software.com, Inc. is an Internet infrastructure software company whose
>mission is to provide high-performance, scalable server-based messaging
>solutions to Internet/intranet customers. The company has two industry
>leading products - InterMail and Post.Office - which provide =
server-based,
>native Internet messaging solutions to customers ranging from small
>businesses to large organizations with millions of users.
>
>Software.com customers include, among others, AST Research, AT&T =
WorldNetSM
>Service, BBN Planet, Bell Atlantic, BSDI, Cisco Systems, Erol's =
Internet,
>Frontier Technologies, GE Information Services, Netscape, NetManage,
>Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Stratus Computer, and Banyan =
Systems.
>The company's headquarters are dual-located in Santa Barbara, Calif. =
and
>Lexington, Mass., with other offices in Orlando, Fla., Phoenix, Ariz., =
San
>Jose, Calif., Atlanta, Ga., Denver, Co., Seattle, Wa., Brussels, =
Belgium,
>Windsor, UK and Tokyo, Japan. Software.com can be reached in the U.S. =
at
>805-882-2470 or http://www.software.com.
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>
>Post.Office and InterMail are trademarks and 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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