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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2074.0. "MS Mail front-end to ALL-IN-1 IOS." by WOTVAX::MORRISON () Wed Jan 13 1993 15:59

My customer has just returned from a Microsoft strategy session 
on Enterprisewide Mail.  There, a Microsoft person, Elaine 
Sharpe, stated that Digital are developing an interface so that 
MS Mail can be used as the Mail user interface to ALL-IN-1 IOS.

Please can someone comment on this ?  Elaine stated that this 
facility would be available from Digital at the end of Q1 1993.

Thanks

Randall  (astounded by this news).

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2074.1	We are?	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	A year behind in more ways than one	`Wed Jan 13 1993 17:17`	8
	Randall, If this were true then it would have to be taken up in ABBOTT::A1INFO since we don't do "futures" here. Regards, Andrew.D.Wicks
2074.2	restricted conference	WOTVAX::MORRISON		`Wed Jan 13 1993 17:22`	5
	Sadly, I don't have access to the A1INFO conference, hence my question here. Randall :-(
2074.3	Try TeamLinks	CHRLIE::HUSTON		`Wed Jan 13 1993 17:24`	6
	You may want to put the question in the TeamLinks conference as well, (ABBOTT::WINDOWS_OFFICE), I would guess they would have abetter persective on anything MicrSoft is up to.
2074.5	We're not, but...	IOSG::TALLETT	Gimmee an Alpha colour notebook...	`Wed Jan 13 1993 18:42`	21
	I think what Microsoft is talking about is the public statement by Digital that we will support the MAPI standard. This is a mail API that MS is pushing which promises to separate the clients and servers so that any MAPI-compliant client (front end) would plug into any MAPI-complient server (back-end). Microsoft plans to make MS-Mail use MAPI (currently it doesn't) and hope other mail-client vendors will do the same. This could leave us to freely compete in the back-end business without having to compete in the front-end business and vice-versa. What would you think if Digital did do this? Does it sound like a good thing? Its certainly what customers are asking for. Note that the public statement that Digital will support MAPI and saying that MS-Mail will be able to "do" ALL-IN-1 IOS mail are very different things. Regards, Paul
2074.6	Another possibility	AIMTEC::ZANIEWSKI_D	Why would CSC specialists need training?	`Wed Jan 13 1993 20:18`	5
	MS-Mail v3.0 will soon be a supported end user client for the MAILbus Postmaster for LANs/WANs product. This is scheduled for release in Q3. Might that be it? Dave Zaniewski
2074.7	POinter to that conference	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	A year behind in more ways than one	`Wed Jan 13 1993 21:14`	7
	Dave might have it since Q3 in DIGITAL year 1993 is Q1 for real people. The MAILbus Postmaster conference is of course at MRKTNG::POSTMASTERV2 Regards, Andrew.D.Wicks
2074.8	Yes, I agree	IOSG::TALLETT	Gimmee an Alpha colour notebook...	`Thu Jan 14 1993 08:01`	6
	Yes. The Q1 date doesn't fit for MAPI as Microsoft are only sending it to Beta in Q3CY93. Daves idea is more likely. Regards, Paul
2074.9	Thanks.	WOTVAX::MORRISON		`Thu Jan 14 1993 13:05`	18
	Thanks for all your suggestions. My original thought was that someone in ALL-IN-1 engineering was writing a prototype which interfaces to A1DA or something. I've tried the Postmaster conference before, but they are a bit reluctant to talk about MS Mail support. Support for MAPI is still a long way off, even Microsoft are not committing to have the full MAPI specs available for quite some time. I've asked my customer to get back to Microsoft and find which group in Digital they are talking to. Thanks again. Randall