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Source: Dan Porter (innoval@ibm.net)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                       

Contact: Marianne Roderus, 914-835-3838 or innoval@ibm.net

InnoVal Executive Applauds Ruling in Sun vs Microsoft
Announces New Release of J Street Mailer

InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. president Dan Porter today
announced his unequivocal endorsement for the decision by 
Ronald M. Whyte, U.S. District Judge in San Jose, 
California.  In a preliminary injunction, Judge Whyte gave 
Microsoft 90 days to rework both its Windows 98 and its 
Internet Explorer browser to make them compatible with Sun's 
Java specifications. The judge also ruled that there was a 
strong likelihood that Sun would prevail in a full trial in 
its suit against Microsoft for copyright infringement and 
unfair competition.

"Today's Wall Street Journal called it a resounding 
victory," said Porter. "I agree. And I'm also delighted to 
see the attention Java and OS/2 are getting in the Federal 
lawsuit of Microsoft. I'm not so very confident about remedy 
that will benefit the wider user community but I am pleased 
to see confirmation of what we in the OS/2 and Java 
communities have long believed; that Gates and company are 
capricious about innovation and predatory in the 
marketplace."

"This is encouraging news for those of us in the OS/2 and 
Java communities. My hope is that ISVs and developers will 
take this news as encouragement to further develop and 
enhance non-Windows specific products or to build 
multi-platform solutions," said Porter. "We will. Within the 
next two weeks we will release a new version of J Street 
Mailer. This is primarily a maintenance release. We felt we 
had to do this before pursuing further innovations. 
Following this release, we will work with users to try and 
find a consensus on the features most needed."

"We are working in a very tightened-down market and we find 
that we must start doing things differently. One thing we 
are doing is eliminating telephone technical support and 
email technical support beyond thirty days. It is too 
costly. I have a choice to make about our resources and I 
would rather put money and effort into product development 
and improvement as well as our profitable consulting 
business. These changes in technical support will cover all 
of products including Web Willy Watch, Post Road Mailer, J 
Street Mailer, and Hacksaw." InnoVal will monitor the 
newsgroups and participate in end-user support as time 
permits.

Porter continued, "On the brighter side we have decided to 
offer the J Street Mailer source code, free of charge, to 
any licensee of J Street Mailer who wishes to improve the 
product and distribute those improvements. My goal here is 
to advance the use of Java applications and specifically the 
J Street Mailer. Source. Anyone interested in obtaining the 
source code should contact Marianne Roderus at 
innoval@ibm.net."

"We were hoping that Web Willy Watch for OS/2 would do 
better than it has. The Windows version is doing very well. 
Regrettably, it outsells the OS/2 version at least thirty to 
one. We will likely enhance Web Willy Watch soon. When we 
do, we will release OS/2 and Windows version 
simultaneously."

J Street Mailer 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
http://www.innoval.com or write to InnoVal at 
innoval@ibm.net.







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