General Magic and Oracle Show Magic Cap-Interoffice Connectivity; Allows Mobile Access to the Enterprise
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — December 13, 1995 — General Magic, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMGC)and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced their work to provide new solutions for mobile access to the enterprise and demonstrated connectivity between General Magic's Magic Cap(TM) platform and Oracle InterOffice, Oracle's new collaborative suite introduced today. The demonstration was part of Oracle's introduction of InterOffice, a messaging and document management server platform that supports a variety of client options including the Magic Cap platform. Today's demonstration illustrated how a mobile user could use a portable device to access a corporate network, and featured electronic mail retrieval from a Sony Magic Link PIC-2000 communicator via a wireless ethernet connection to the InterOffice messaging system.
"Oracle understands the need to provide users broad access to corporate networks while shielding them from the complexity of back-end systems, and InterOffice meets that need," said Marc Porat, chairman and chief executive of General Magic. "Together, communicators, the Magic Cap platform, and Oracle's InterOffice server platform can provide enterprise users with mobile access to messaging, calendaring, database, and groupware services."
"Operating systems such as Magic Cap are making Personal Digital Assistants a more cost-effective, viable means of information access," said Sohaib Abbasi, senior vice president of Oracle's Tools and Groupware product divisions. "The combination of Magic Cap and Oracle InterOffice in a single, easy-to-use, handheld device allows employees to have continuous access to corporate information, whether on the road or merely in another office."
InterOffice is designed for a new generation of collaborative computing by providing users access to a full range of electronic mail, calendaring, scheduling, document management and workflow services residing on the InterOffice open repository. InterOffice addresses the need for a messaging and document management server platform beyond closed, proprietary systems by supporting a wide variety of client and backend options, including the Oracle InterOffice client, the Magic Cap platform, a Web browser, MAPI-compliant user interfaces, and word processing applications.
The Magic Cap platform integrates today's popular modes of communication including fax, public electronic mail services, paging, and telephones, and incorporates AT&T PersonaLink(SM) Services, a public network service that supports smart messaging, Internet mail connectivity, fax services, and rich content such as text, digital ink, sound, and animations. Users can choose both Magic Cap communicators such as the Sony Magic Link PIC 2000 and Motorola Envoy Wireless Communicator as well as Magic Cap for Windows (a pre-release version of which is available free from General Magic's web site). Version 1.5 of Magic Cap for communicators was released in October, and software available for Magic Cap communicators now includes direct corporate and Internet email connectivity, data collection and database access, and spreadsheet and personal finance applications.
General Magic, Inc. was founded in May 1990 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Its mission is to participate in the electronic marketplace by developing and licensing software to leading providers of communication products, network services and network applications. The General Magic Founding Partners Council includes AT&T, Cable & Wireless, France Telecom, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Nortel, NTT, Oki, Philips, Sanyo, Sony, and Toshiba. General Magic's World Wide Web address is http://www.genmagic.com/.
NOTE: Magic Cap and Telescript are trademarks of General Magic, Inc. General Magic acknowledges the rights of the trademark owners for all trademarks referred to herein.
CONTACT:
Jane Anderson of General Magic, 408-774-4040, or jane(underscore)[email protected];
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Dawn Echols of Oracle, 415-506-9034, or [email protected]