Santa Monica, CA, February 5, 1992 -- Retix, a leading worldwide supplier of Open Networking products, today expanded its OpenServer 400 series of X.400 based messaging solutions with a new version of OpenServer 400 and two additional gateway Products. The company has added an OS/2 version to its current line of popular OpenServer 400 products which includes versions for DOS and UNIX (both SCO and Interactive versions). In addition, Retix has introduced a new Microsoft Mail for PC Networks Gateway to X400 and a new version of the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Gateway to X.400, expanding its current suite of gateway products. Now, users in each of the major operating system environments, using virtually any e-mail system, can benefit from OpenServer 400's messaging solution. The OpenServer 400 Product Family Retix OpenServer 400 products allow users to link otherwise incompatible mail systems to one another, creating a cohesive, enterprise-wide messaging environment. All OpenServer 400 products provide a distributed solution based on widely-accepted industry and ISO international standards. In addition, OpenServer 400 products can be combined with an extensive suite of gateways from Retix and other vendors to gain access to virtually every popular e-mail and mail-enabled application in use today. OpenServer 400 for OS/2 OpenServer 400 for OS/2 is designed to take full advantage of the multi-tasking OS/2 Version 1.3 operating system, providing users with improved performance and increased capacity for their enterprise-wide messaging networks. Key benefits of the OS/2 version include: better memory utilization and increased performance for more efficient service to large numbers of users; the ability to run OpenServer 400 and selected e-mail server applications on a single machine; and a graphical OpenServer Configuration Utility (OCU) running under Presentation Manager that simplifies configuration and set-up. "Now that we have a version of OpenServer 400 for OS/2, as well as DOS and UNIX, we can address the full spectrum of users that need to establish enterprise-wide messaging," said Mark Fishburn, vice president and general manager of Retix' OSI Product Unit. New Gateway Products Retix also expanded its family of gateways which work in conjunction with OpenServer 400 to give users of PC LAN-based e-mail systems interoperability with a wide range of other e-mail systems, mainframe and minicomputer based systems and public mail networks that support X.400. The new Microsoft (MS) Mail for PC Networks Gateway provides MS Mail-to-X.400 format conversion and transmission, allowing users of MS Mail for PC Networks (formerly Consumer Software's Network Courier e-mail package) to send messages and receive messages from users of other e-mail systems. In fact, to the MS Mail user, users of other email systems appear as if they were using the same mail system; the gateway simply maps the MS Mail address to the X.400 address transparently. The Retix SMTP Gateway to X.400 works in a similar fashion, providing SMTP-to-X.400 format conversion and transmission facilities, so that users of UNIX e-mail systems (RFC 822 mailers) obtain access to other e-mail systems and mail networks. Using the SMTP Gateway in combination with OpenServer 400, users can send messages or files throughout an enterprise using any e-mail package that supports RFC 822. The new version of the gateway announced today adds support for SCO UNIX (to the previously supported Interactive version), as well as MMDF-II, a popular SCO UNIX mailer. "Microsoft has a significant market share in the LAN-based e-mail world with MS Mail for PC Networks, and UNIX mailers are used heavily in both government and academic sectors," said James Neiser, associate vice president of marketing for the Retix OSI Product Unit. "In conjunction with our OpenServer Partners, we can now provide X.400-based interoperability to e-mail users in virtually every market sector." The MS Mail for PC Networks and SMTP Gateways to X.400 join the growing number of gateways supplied by Retix and its OpenServer Partners to provide access to popular e-mail and mail-enabled applications. Additional gateways to X.400 are currently available for users of 3Com, cc:Mail, NetWare MHS, OfficeWorks, MS Mail for Macintosh and WordPerfect, among others. Pricing and Availability OpenServer for OS/2 is available 60 days ARO and begins at $5,950, U.S. list. The Microsoft Mail for PC Networks Gateway to X.400 and the new version of the SMTP Gateway to X.400 are available 60 days ARO. Pricing for both gateways begins at $1,795, U.S. list. The products will be demonstrated, along with OpenServer 400, at Networld Boston, February 11-13,1992 in Boston, Massachusetts, booth 121. Retix is a leading worldwide supplier of Open Networking products to the end user and OEM markets. Founded in 1985, Retix designs, manufactures and markets both OSI software and internetworking bridges and routers to end users, OEMs, systems integrators, value-added resellers and distributors. Retix has more than 200 OSI OEM licensees throughout the world and has sold over 25,000 bridges and routers. Retix' shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "RETX". 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