Digital has announced a number of enhancements to its electronic mail
products, including:
• X.500 Directory Service products provides for 1988 CCITT compliant
Directory Services, with automated global address book, plus an implementation of key
components of the 1993 X.500 standard. This product is available immediately, with pricing
starting at $500 (U.S.) and based on system size.
• MAILbus for Open VMS VAX V1.0. A Message Transfer Agent based on the X.40 MTA
with X.500 based routing and directory components. This product is available now and
pricing ranges from $8,500 to $34,000 (U.S.).
• MAILbus Postmaster V3.0 offers mail management for the integration of
multivendor LAN and WAN electronic mail systems, including support for cc:Mail and
Microsoft Mail as well as PATHWORKS, Novell NetWare, Banyan VINES, Windows for Workgroups
and LAN Manager. Directory synchronization with a single posting for cc:Mail and Microsoft
Mail users is supported. This software will be available in August and pricing remains
unchanged at $2,230 for LAN's and $5,590 for WAN's.
• DEC Mailworks Server V1.2 adds TCP/IP support and extends enhanced
services to DOS, Windows, and Macintosh. This product is available in July. A user license
is $60 and a system license is $1,000.
Digital also announced, at the same time, enhancements to its EDI facilities, DECfax
Mail, and a TeamLinks Mail client for the Macintosh.
>Recommitment of Digital to All-In-One
Digital has recently released a bevy of software packages, consulting services and
statements of direction, all designed to move All-In-1 (the grandmother of current Office
software, since it's now been in use for more than 10 years) further into the Brave New
Digital (meaning Digital Equipment Corporation) World.
This means commitments to All-In-1 for Alpha and OpenVMS (for delivery next year) plus
a server-only version of All-In-1 that permits PC workstations to get All-In-1 services
from a DEC host without the previously required intermediary MailWorks server. Software is
beginning to be priced at the individual user level, permitting a user at a desktop to get
started (as long as there is an available All-In-1 host). Workflow software is also coming
in the TeamRoute product.
Considering that Digital CEO Robert Palmer keynoted Windows World (!!!), not COMDEX, as
Microsoft's NT partner, we're looking for an NT version of All-In-1 (perhaps implied in
the Alpha commitment). But we must continue to note that the systems vendors like IBM and
Digital who previously ruled the office workplace have become decreasingly important in
terms of overall share of desktops as LAN's and client/server have become the architecture
of choice.
These announcements by Digital are an attempt to participate in this,
fastest growing part of the market. Digital has six million All-In-1 users on all
platforms (mainly VMS); it needs to become a major factor now in the emerging
client/server sector .
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