They want to know how they can take advantage of the industry's leading solution for integrating fax into the corporate electronic messaging platform without impinging on their investment in Novell products. This document is intended to clarify the role of NT-based application servers such as FACSys in NetWare environments and to explain Optus Software's roadmap for our many customers whose networks are either partially or totally made up of NetWare LANs. The first question to answer is why an NT-based fax server should be of any interest to a NetWare network manager. The answer, of course, is that Windows NT is a very powerful application server platform. These factors are especially important in a fax messaging gateway such as FACSys.
Platform performance is therefore a critical issue.
Another critical component of Optus Software's fax strategy is seamless integration with third-party products. In many cases, a single NT server can support two or more components of such a solution, adding to the overall economy of the implementation. NT is clearly making a major impact in distributed computing environments and by all accounts its role in corporate intranets and extranets will only increase. First of all, FACSys Fax Messaging Gateway v4.1 is a server application which does not rely on specific network functions. Additionally, users should be aware of the integration utilities provided by both Novell and Microsoft to ensure seamless access to computing resources running on each other's platform.