June 4, 1992, Framingham MA, Microsystems Software today announced CaLANdar for Windows. CaLANdar is an e-mail enabled, people & resource scheduling facility. CaLANdar provides the most extensive features available for coordinating group appointments and tasks for users on local area networks. CaLANdar's enterprise-wide group scheduling is scaleable for 10 to 128,000 users and is ideally suited for users migrating from mainframe or mini products such as IBM's PROFS. CaLANdar for Windows is on schedule for a June release. The first release will provide all of CaLANdar's extensive group scheduling and wide-area connectivity features, including CaLANdar's powerful group graph and suggest appointment time features, plus CALaWAY (CaLANdar's telephone message management system). A Windows versions of CALoDEX (CaLANdar's group/personal "rolodex") will become available in Q3'92. Until then, the DOS versions of CALoDEX can be accessed directly from within CaLANdar for Windows. Support for DDE and OLE has been slated for availability in Q4'92. CaLANdar for Windows is available in versions which support e-mail connectivity with cc:Mail, MS-Mail, Banyan Mail and MHS based e-mail products (including products from Beyond, Da Vinci, Infinite and Network). CaLANdar's e-mail enabled versions allow for directory synchronization, user propagation across a WAN, LAN to LAN communications, communication access to e-mail users and gateways, propagation of user availability data and automatic time zone adjustments. CaLANdar is sold in 10 and 50 user building-block packages. Each CaLANdar database can support up to 1,000 users and 200 resources. In a multi-server configuration, CaLANdar supports up to 128,000 users. CaLANdar for Windows is priced at $595 for 10 users and $1,095 for 50 users, in the LAN (single server/no email) versions. Versions which are e-mail enabled and support multiple servers are priced at $795 for 10 users and $1,495 for 50 users. Existing CaLANdar users can obtain an upgrade to the Windows version directly from MSI. The CaLANdar for Windows packages include support for both Windows and DOS scheduling, plus CALoDEX and CALaWAY. Both the DOS and Windows versions use a common back-end database scheduling engine. This lets all CaLANdar users access and share the same database files, assuring complete compatibility. Microsystems Software is currently developing its plans for Macintosh and UNIX versions of CaLANdar. Additionally, support for VAX users and various gateways for migration from, and co-existence with, popular mainframe/mini office automation products are being considered. According to J. Scott Benson, President of Microsystems Software, "We intend to make CaLANdar the industry's cross-platform, enterprise-wide group scheduling solution." Microsystems Software is a leading developer of e-mail enabled workgroup productivity tools and adapted access software which provide PC accessibility to individuals with physical disabilities. For more information, on CaLANdar and Microsystems Software, contact the MSI sales department at (508) 879-9000. Microsystems Software Inc, 600 Worcester Rd, Framingham, MA 01701 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America Online New Product Information Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, | | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. | | All submissions for this service should be addressed to | | BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+