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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS
on NOVELL NETWARE 11/19/01 - Today's focus: A peek into MyRealBox Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * MyRealBox acts as a demo site for Novell Internet Messaging System * Links related to Novell NetWare * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by Novell With NetWare 6, your network is just a browser away. You've read all the great reviews about how you can access your file, print and other storage resources from any browser anywhere with NetWare6. To get updated product information and downloads, visit http://nww1.com/go/3567303a.html _______________________________________________________________ TAKE IT OFF-LINE The high-tech industry has always run at breakneck pace. Even a wheezing economy will hardly slow it. In the past year, business theory surrounding technology has been reinvented and redefined multiple times. Check out the latest "must-read" books for technology-related business theories. http://nww1.com/go/ad204.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: A peek into MyRealBox By Dave Kearns MyRealBox is a free e-mail service for anyone who wants to use it. More importantly (from our point of view), it's a demonstration site for Novell's Internet Messaging System (NIMS). I've mentioned before in this space that I didn't like Novell's GroupWise, even though (or maybe because) I formerly administered its predecessor - WordPerfect Office - for a half dozen years. GroupWise is too complicated, too non-standard, and too cluttered with unneeded (by many) functionality. NIMS, though, suffers from none of those drawbacks. It's simple, straightforward messaging based on standard Simple Message Transfer Protocol tools which have driven e-mail over the Internet for more than a dozen years. It supports any e- mail client (even the GroupWise client, as well as Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express, Eudora, and many more) that can handle the Post Office Protocol or Internet Message Access Protocol, besides providing a Web-browser based interface. The latest version of NIMS also includes (if you want to use it) basic calendaring functions. It's scalable up to 100,000 mailboxes on a single server, but is also written to take advantage of a multiprocessor or multiserver (i.e., a cluster) environment. It's tightly coupled with NDS/eDirectory for security, supporting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0, the Open SSL implementation of Transport Layer Security, and Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension protocols for the highest possible levels of encryption and security. Typically, in evaluating a messaging product you use a small test group of people to try it out then hope those results will scale to your entire enterprise. Myrealbox.com, though, has current stats listed right on the home page with a link to more detailed stats for the cluster of mail servers running the program so that you can see for yourself what the performance is like. NIMS is intended for large enterprises - Fortune 1000 companies, universities, government departments and the like. There is also a move to aim it at ISPs, but that activity seems to have dropped recently. While it might not be right for small businesses (and small businesses get GroupWise thrown in when they buy NetWare Small Business Suite), medium- and large-sized enterprises running NetWare servers should definitely consider it. Even those without NetWare servers might reasonably look at it as an efficient, secure mail server. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Dave Kearns: Dave Kearns is the Word Wrangler for Virtual Quill, a writing agency serving the computer and networking industries. If your target customer doesn't know your product, doesn't know its uses and doesn't know he needs it, he's not going to buy it. From books to reviews, marketing to manuals, VQ can help you and your business. Virtual Quill - "words to sell by..." Find out more at: http://www.vquill.com/, or by e-mail at mailto:info@vquill.com. _______________________________________________________________ NW Fusion's BuyIT has the IT resources you need! Our directory hosts thousands of qualified service providers. Post an RFP anonymously and FREE, receive competitive bids, begin negotiations, and get your project done right! http://nwfusion.newmediary.com/nww110901nwltr1 _______________________________________________________________ RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS MyRealBox http://www.myrealbox.com Novell Internet Messaging System http://www.novell.com/products/nims/ Layoffs continue at Novell Network World, 11/19/01 http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/127487_11-19-2001.html Breaking Novell and NetWare news, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/financial/novell.html Archive of the Novell NetWare newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/netware/index.html ______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE Now on-line: The BEST ISSUE It's time for the 2001 Best Issue, our third-annual look at the best new products, hottest employee and project management ideas, and top enterprise network projects. Also on-line check out our "Best of the Test" article to find out which products bested all others over the past 12 months in categories such as security, net management and client maintenance? http://www.nwfusion.com/best2001/ _______________________________________________________________ May We Send You a Free Print Subscription? You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered at your fingertips each day. Now, extend your knowledge by receiving 51 FREE issues to our print publication. Apply today at http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/nl _______________________________________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World e-mail newsletters, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/notprinteditnews.asp To unsubscribe from promotional e-mail go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/ep To change your e-mail address, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/changeemail.asp Subscription questions? Contact Customer Service by replying to this message. Have editorial comments? Write Jeff Caruso, Newsletter Editor, at: mailto:jcaruso@nww.com For advertising information, write Jamie Kalbach, Fusion Sales Manager, at: mailto:jkalbach@nww.com Copyright Network World, Inc., 2001 ------------------------ This message was sent to: vkamins@enron.com
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