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Partners Novell, Inc. and WordPerfect Corp. have already begun adding specifics to their recently announced plans for groupware. Novell GroupWare will attack that market with a menued approach and a melding of their messaging and desktop applications, the companies said.
In addition, WordPerfect officials outlined plans to merge WordPerfect Office electronic-mail and Novell's Message Handling Service (MHS) servers--the companies' only overlapping technologies--into one product called the Open Messaging Environment (OME) in 1995 (see story page 14).
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A key point of the Novell GroupWare strategy is that the components will plug into other vendors' applications and services. For instance, WordPerfect Office will plug into Novell's directory service or into Banyan Systems, Inc.'s directory service, according to Eldon Greenwood, product marketing manager for WordPerfect Office.
"There needs to be a lot more in terms of...