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Source: Dan Porter (innoval@ibm.net)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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Contact: Marianne Roderus, 914-835-3838 or innoval@ibm.net

J Street Mailer Stockholm Initiative Announced

Stockholm, Sweden, September 28, 1998 - - InnoVal Systems 
Solutions announced today a new initiative to partner with 
Java developers throughout the world to develop and market 
international versions and special-market versions of the J
Street Mailer Java-based Internet email program. 
Significantly, the initiative includes plans to enhance the 
product as well. Dan Porter, president of InnoVal, had 
discussed this proposal with members of the OS/2 users 
group in Stockholm, Sweden, last week. 

InnoVal is seeking individuals or companies in many 
countries throughout the world to work as partners. Any 
individual or company may apply.

Partners creating national versions will be asked to 
translate the HTML-based help files into their country's 
language, translate menus and dialogs using standard Java 
internationalization procedures, and modify code if they 
deem it appropriate for their country. Partners creating 
special-market versions, will be asked to modify the code 
appropriate for a particular marketplace such as an 
academic, ISP, or hardware specific market. Partners will 
also be encouraged to make general improvements. To enable 
this, InnoVal will provide the source code to its partners.

Partners will be able to sell their country's version of 
the J Street Mailer as shareware or as electronically 
distributable commercial software. Partners must agree to 
make their version of J Street Mailer available to premier 
market channels who are committed to Java. Examples include 
Indelible Blue, BMT Micro, and Mensys. InnoVal will request 
a commission from the partners for each copy sold. Though
the commission amount has not been determined, it is 
expected to be in the range of $3.00 to $4.00 USD. There is 
no requirement for any advance payments to InnoVal.

Technical support will not be provided by InnoVal for any 
national or special-market edition of the J Street Mailer. 
Each partner must determine how support will be provided, 
if at all.

Partners must agree to share any code improvements they 
make with InnoVal and all other country and special-market 
partners.

"I am totally committed to advancing the J Street Mailer 
technology," said Porter, "Partnering is one way to do 
that. This will allow us to continue to evolve the product 
in ways that our customers are saying we must." 

Porter continued, "Joshua Quittner, writing in today's 
issue of Time magazine, said that Microsoft Outlook 98 is 
the best email package available. That is just not 
acceptable to me and many people. Though many believe it, 
it just isn't true. By creating a culture of developers and 
enthusiastic users around a Java solution, I hope that we 
can change perceptions and indeed continue to evolve J 
Street Mailer into the world class cross- platform Java 
solution."

J Street Mailer, currently available in a standard U.S. 
English edition, is a full function Internet email client 
written completely in Java. It is getting excellent reviews 
for its rich function and its compatibility across all Java 
enabled platforms including Windows 95/98/NT, JavaOS, OS/2, 
Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

For more information, see InnoVal's home page at 
www.innoval.com or write to InnoVal at innoval@ibm.net.

 



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