Hewlett-Packard Company today announced OpenMail Anywhere/WAP, a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) interface for OpenMail 6, one of the leading business messaging/collaboration solutions for Linux and UNIX(R) systems. OpenMail is the only major business messaging solution available through a WAP connection anytime, anywhere. This interface is part of OpenMail's Enhancement Pack 2, which is shipping now.
Using OpenMail Anywhere/WAP, mobile OpenMail users can now access the same corporate e-mail that they use at their desktops, including Microsoft(R) Outlook, Netscape Navigator, Lotus cc:Mail and Qualcomm Eudora. Users can access OpenMail's wireless Web service through WAP-enabled phones. Highly secure wireless access is ensured through OpenMail's integration with HP's Praesidium VirtualVault technology.
"OpenMail is the first truly secure business messaging from wireless networks, and now the first to add WAP capabilities," said Nigel Upton, general manager of HP's OpenMail business. "Just as we were the first to integrate SMS access and a choice of desktops."
OpenMail Anywhere/WAP is certified with the latest WAP phone and WAP gateway from Nokia. It is also certified with Phone.com's Up.Link 3.1 gateway and UP.Browser 3.1. This means that OpenMail is already compatible with the majority of Internet-ready handsets being sold worldwide. In addition, OpenMail will be certified later this year with WAP phones from Ericsson and the TANTAU Wireless Internet Platform. Work is also ongoing with third parties to certify Phone.com's HDML handset browsers, which are widely distributed by wireless carriers (HDML is similar to WAP).
OpenMail 6 offers extreme, designed-in reliability for business users, for both in-house services and those hosted by an ASP. OpenMail offers a low cost of ownership that is substantially better than competitive offerings, thanks to its class-leading scalability. In addition to robust Internet e-mail standards support, OpenMail includes high-functionality support for Microsoft Outlook's "collaboration" features and OpenMail 6's functionally rich Web client.
OpenMail is HP's strategic business messaging and collaboration e-services(1) solution for Linux and UNIX systems, based on Internet standards. Perhaps its most notable feature is that it offers a choice of desktops, including Microsoft Outlook. No other non-Microsoft server supports the richness of Outlook as deeply as OpenMail, including support for "collaboration" features, such as calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders and delegation. OpenMail has an installed base of 15 million seats, with representation in 60 percent of the Fortune 1000. OpenMail is the No. 3 business-messaging product, in terms of Fortune 500 installed base, according to respected industry consultants Creative Networks, Inc. More information is available at http://www.hp.com/go/openmail. Information for the press is available at http://openmail.hp.com/ompr/.
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