Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:22:34 +0100
From: Richi Jennings 
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, OpenMail (http://www.hp.com/go/openmail)
Subject: News: OpenMail on Linux - Availability and Free Options


EDITORIAL CONTACT:  Richi Jennings, HP
                    +44 (0) 1344-365870 (UK phone number, but
                    richi@hp.com         available US Eastern
                                          time during week of
                                                  October 4th)



 OpenMail on Linux: Product Availability, Discounts, and Free Options

        HP announces availability of the supported product
   version of OpenMail 6.0 for Linux; includes discounted pricing
    details, as well as options for free use of the full product


PINEWOOD, United Kingdom, October 5, 1999 -- Hewlett-Packard Company
today announced availability of their strategic business messaging
product, OpenMail, for the increasingly popular Linux platform. HP
will offer a substantial, promotional discount bundle -- 70 percent
off. HP also revealed plans to give the software away, for free
(without support).

HP is highlighting the extremely high level of interest that
OpenMail for Linux has attracted. For example, in August, OpenMail
won "Top Product -- Best of Show" at LinuxWorld, as voted by almost
10,000 expo. attendees, in San Jose, California.

HP said that their recent beta test has been very smooth, successful,
and popular. "We're simply thrilled by the feedback on OpenMail for
Linux," said Nigel Upton, general manager for messaging at HP. "We've
seen tens of thousands of downloads, and a surprising number of
those companies have already made purchasing decisions, even before
the final Linux version is available. Some are even running the beta
version in production."

The full OpenMail for Linux product will be available on October 8th,
1999.


Free Evaluation Software Available Now
--------------------------------------
For evaluation purposes, HP will make available a free, fully
functional (but unsupported), six month evaluation version. The
software and all manuals can be downloaded from the OpenMail web
site. Phone-in support, upgrades, media and printed manuals are not
included.

The evaluation software will be available from October 8th,
at http://www.hp.com/go/openmail


Licenses: Free, Gratis and For Nothing
--------------------------------------
Not only that, but HP plans to offer a free license key for up to 50
users. This will allow customers to continue to use the fully
functional product, beyond the six month evaluation period.

What's the catch? As with the evaluation license: support, upgrades,
media and printed manuals are not included.

"When you sign up for the evaluation software, the web page will ask
you to fill in your e-mail address," explained Richi Jennings,
OpenMail Technical Product Manager at HP. "Then we'll e-mail your
free license key to you.


Sale!
-----
HP is also offering a substantial, promotional discount on the price
of OpenMail for Linux, including purchase, support, and upgrades. At
a special price of just $2,038 (US) per 50 user bundle, this works
out as a 70% discount from the price of other major business
messaging products, such as Microsoft(R) Exchange, and Lotus(R)
Domino.

Customers can purchase as many of these 50 user bundles as they need,
to support their OpenMail users on Linux servers. For example, if a
customer has 230 OpenMail users, they simply need to purchase five
license bundles.

The OpenMail for Linux license bundle includes:

  -- 50 OpenMail mailbox licenses (allows administrators to
     configure up to 50 mailboxes);

  -- 50 HP client licenses (covers the OpenMail Web Client and
     the OpenMail "OMGUI" client for Windows, Linux/UNIX and Mac);

  -- 50 Outlook/MAPI driver licenses (use Microsoft Outlook
     clients with OpenMail, instead of with Microsoft Exchange);

  -- 50 cc:Mail driver licenses (use cc:Mail clients with
     OpenMail, instead of with cc:Mail post offices);

  -- first year "24x365" phone-in support (get help from HP's
     experts, any time of any day);

  -- free upgrades for the first year.


What People Say About OpenMail
------------------------------
Some recent comments from OpenMail beta testers...

  -- Kudos to the entire team for this product. It is greatly
     appreciated and WILL be deployed here in our shop.
     Thanks again!

  -- I look forward to the release date!

  -- ...a great product!

And don't forget that OpenMail won "Top Product -- Best of Show" at
LinuxWorld, as voted by almost 10,000 expo. attendees.


Finally, Thanks!
----------------
HP is extending a big HP thank-you to their beta test users. "We'd
like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who encouraged us to
move forward with the Linux port, and gave us all the great
feedback," said Jennings. "We've been doing business messaging for
20 years, in one form or another, and this is probably the coolest
thing we've ever done!"


About OpenMail
--------------
OpenMail is HP's strategic Linux and UNIX system business messaging
and collaboration solution, based on Internet standards. Its most
notable feature is the unique way that it supports desktops running
Microsoft's Outlook application. No other non-Microsoft server
supports the richness of Outlook as deeply as OpenMail, including
support for calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders and
delegation.

OpenMail has an installed base of more than 11 million seats, with
representation in 60 percent of the Fortune 1000. OpenMail is the
number three business messaging product, in terms of Fortune 500
installed base, according to respected industry consultants
Creative Networks, Inc.

OpenMail is a proven, robust technology for building e-services(1)
solutions, running on HP-UX(2), Linux, AIX and Solaris. OpenMail is
designed for the heterogeneous environments often found in large
enterprises and is used by many world-class businesses as the core of
their communications and e-services infrastructures.

More information is available at http://www.hp.com/go/openmail

The OpenMail Press Page (for exclusive use by members of the media)
is now available at http://www.openmail.hp.com/ompr


About HP
--------
Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and
imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on
capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the
proliferation of electronic services.

HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by
mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement,
semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions
businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments.

HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of
$47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its
products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the
World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.


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(1) e-services -- HP envisions a world in which people and businesses
derive new value from the Internet by moving beyond Web-based access
to information to a world in which a rich array of nimble, modular
electronic services, e-services, are accessible by virtually anyone
and any device. HP has been working to solve the technical challenges
that such a world presents -- inventing the devices and technologies
that provide access, building the back-end systems that support the
billions of Internet transactions generated, and developing the
software that ensures information always is protected. The steward
of distributed open systems, HP understand how to build this new
open-services marketplace and will lead this next logical evolution
of the Net, working closely with world-class partners.

(2) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later
(in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are
Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Lotus is a U.S. registered trademark of IBM Corp.