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SunSoft Ships Solstice Internet Mail Server 1.0. — The First Internet Mail Solution with Advanced Mobile E-mail Connectivity
Business Wire, July 17, 1996
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 1996--SunSoft, Inc., the Internet software company, has just shipped Solstice Internet Mail Server 1.0, the first Internet mail server based on the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) to deliver advanced mobile and interoperable mail support on the Internet.
Users of Solstice Internet Mail Server 1.0 will have access to e-mail anywhere in the world -- in the office, in hotels, on airplanes, at client sites or wherever they need access to e-mail -- by simply dialing into a local Internet Service Provider. This is not possible today with proprietary mail systems such as Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail or Microsoft Exchange.
"E-mail has become a core component of organizational information architectures," said Terry Keeley, vice president of Enterprise Networking Products at SunSoft. "Solstice Internet Mail is available to users everywhere, all the time. E-mail today has to be able to handle fast-paced, flexible workgroups and mobile workers. The old proprietary systems simply cannot keep up with the power and global reach of Internet e-mail."
Solstice Internet Mail Server 1.0 is an easy addition to the Solaris operating system that provides users with a total Internet mail solution including IMAP4 remote mail support. It supports both IMAP and POP3 clients and provides full SMTP and MIME connectivity. Solstice Internet Mail Server provides an open Internet platform for today's e-mail use and future applications based on store-and-forward technology.
"IMAP promises vastly improved efficiencies for remote and mobile users, significant improvements in the administration of central message stores and many other features currently available only in proprietary systems," said David Crocker a Principal at Brandenburg Consulting, an independent Internet consulting firm based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
SunSoft is the leader in the hottest part of the e-mail market. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that the installed base of Internet mailboxes will grow at a 91% annual rate between 1995 and 2000 to reach a total of 48 million installed mailboxes. This growth will come at the expense of proprietary and LAN-based mail systems which will experience declining growth rates in the late 1990's. (Data source: IDC April 1996, No. 11330)
Availability
The Solstice Internet Mail Server 1.0 is available today at a suggested US list price of $995. The server will support IMAP and POP3 clients. The product includes a free software adapter that will allow Microsoft Mail client software to interoperate with an IMAP4 mail server.
Client software is available free of charge for Solaris for SPARC, Solaris for x86, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows95 and Windows NT via the World Wide Web at: http://www.sun.com/solstice/Networking-products/sims/index.html
Sunsoft will be delivering fully-supported IMAP clients in the coming months along with other software vendors. Since SunSoft's announcement of an IMAP4-based e-mail product in March 1996, there has been a groundswell of support for the IMAP4 protocol from vendors such as, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Netscape.
About SunSoft
SunSoft, Inc. is the leading vendor of Internet management, access, application development and platform software. SunSoft's products, designed for information technology professionals, systems integrators, value added resellers and computer manufacturers, are used to deliver Internet, network, and desktop computing systems that improve a company's internal and customer communications, and lets them quickly adapt to business change. The products are licensed and distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, see SunSoft on the Internet at: http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/ -0-
Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, Solaris, Solstice, Solstice Internet Mail Server and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
CONTACT: SunSoft Inc.
Craig Welch, 415/786-4704
or
GCI San Francisco
Robert McMillan, 415/974-7226
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