COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING Client/Server Messaging: GroupWise 5 C ommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom," said Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and nowhere is it more obvious than in client/server messaging winner GroupWise 5. Novell's long-range studies on the way people use software tools paid off in designing its sophisticated collaborative computing platform. GroupWise 5 provides critical tools, such as messaging, discussion groups, scheduling, action items and document management in a cohesive and intuitive user work space. And the product contains the functions and features most in demand by large enterprises, including Internet access, directory services, gateways, migration tools and practical systems management. Several unique and slickly constructed features set GroupWise 5 apart. First, the product provides robust status-tracking of all messages, appointments, tasks and workflow items, so that users can easily see who has received or opened, replied or forwarded, accepted, delegated or declined a mes sage. Second, document management--a key feature in building collaborative computing foundations--provides sharing, check-in, checkout and version control. Document management works across multiple post offices. Shared folders function as a discussion database in which users can store a variety of objects and carry on threaded conversations. Plus, GroupWise's SNA Distribution Services (SNADS) gateway is the only product that can permit busy searches of the PROFS calendar and schedule people from within GroupWise. And with message morphing, a user can convert one type of information object to another--changing a message into a task or appointment, for example. Assuming the identity of an other user simply involves both parties adding each other to their list of proxies and assigning rights and privileges. GroupWise's remote client, "Hit the Road," supports multiple mailboxes on the same client and can function completely in a disconnected mode. Remote users have full access to all features and functions, including document management and calendaring. Through GroupWise's WebAccess, a user has access to calendaring/scheduling as well as messaging, address books, message tracking and task management from any Web browser. In conjunction with GroupWise PhoneAccess, users can listen to voice messages in their mailbox from any Web browser. The capability of sending a fax or a pager message directly from a Web browser makes the GroupWise Fax and Pager gateways distinctive. GroupWise uses Novell Directory Services (NDS)--a database-oriented directory that includes a global address book containing all GroupWise users, a personal address book and a Frequent Contacts utility. GroupWise provid es directory synchronization with supported mail environments. System administration is simplified with the Windows-based NetWare Administration client. All components take advantage of the same administration and management tools. GroupWise provides more than 15 highly automated, easily configured gateways, making it a trul y well-connected system. And moving to GroupWise 5 from other systems is simple when you use the step-by-step migration tools for GroupWise 4.1, cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail for PC Networks. GroupWise 5 , $718, Novell, (800) NETWARE, www.novell.com/groupwise Honorable Mentions: Microsoft Exchange Server , $999 to $4,859, Microsoft Corp., (800) 426-9400, www.microsoft.com/exchange FirstClass 3.0 , $495 (including five-user licenses), SOFTARC, (800) SOFTARC, www.softarc.com Awards Table of Co ntents

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