COLLABRA
SHARE
2.0 GARNERS
PRESTIGIOUS
EDITORS'
CHOICE
AWARD
FROM
PC MAGAZINE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- (November 13, 1995) -- Netscape Communications
Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced that Collabra Share 2.0 has
received the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award in Group
Discussion for the second consecutive year. Appearing in the November 21,
1995 issue of PC Magazine, Collabra Share 2.0 received the Editors' Choice
Award for best group discussion product, surpassing five other group
conferencing products including Lotus Notes.
"Receiving the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award two years in a row
reinforces Collabra Share's position as a leading collaborative computing
tool," said Eric Hahn, vice president at Netscape. "We are excited to see
our innovations in collaborative computing recognized by the industry and
look forward to combining our collaborative computing technology with
Netscape's open-systems platform."
COLLABRA SHARE
2.0's "SUITABILITY TO
TASK"
The competitive review compares Collabra Share 2.0, Lotus Notes 3,
TeamWare's TeamWare 3.0, The Mesa Group's Conference+ 1.1c Professional
Edition, Trax Softworks' TeamTalk 2.0, and Attachmate Corp.'s OpenMind.
The six products were
evaluated on administration, conferencing, remote access, extensibility,
outside mail
integration capabilities, overall power and ease-of-use. Collabra Share
2.0 was rated the
best provider of a totally inclusive discussion package. The following are
highlights of the Collabra Share 2.0 review as stated in PC Magazine:
E-Mail Based Functionality and Integration
- "Collabra Share goes a long way toward meeting the needs of mail
users who are already wed to their existing mail packages but want to
add discussion functionality."
- "Collabra Share offers e-mail users the broadest range of
options for interneting with forum..."
Robust Discussion Forums
- "Features such as the InfoNavigator icon and hypertext links
speed up moving around forums."
- "Creating forums and messages is easy."
Flexible Architecture
- "While Collabra Share still runs on the file sharing
architecture, the new server gives users access to a wider variety of
servers, improved performance, and faster remote connectivity."
- "Its clean integration with e-mail, improved interface, and new
client/server architecture make it a product for buyers who are
serious about bringing strong group discussion tools to their
users."
MOMENTUM CONTINUES FOR
COLLABRA SOFTWARE
Collabra Share's receipt of PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award builds on
continuing momentum for the Collabra Share product line. In the last four
months, significant achievements for Collabra Share have included:
- Shipping award-winning Collabra Share 2.0 in July.
- Announcing its plans to merge with Netscape in September.
- Hosting the first worldwide Collabra Share user group forum in
October.
- Shipping Collabra Share 2.1 two weeks ago, which integrates with
Netscape Navigator(TM), provides compatibility with Microsoft Exchange,
and supplies lower total cost of ownership using Mailbox Tracker.
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