OREM, Utah, January 31, 1992--WordPerfect Corporation today announced the shipping of WordPerfect Office 3.1 for PC LANs. WordPerfect Office is an electronic mail and scheduling package combined with other office automation programs. Users will be able to upgrade their whole domain to version 3.1 for $199.US/$239.CN. WordPerfect Office's E-mail includes folders, status checking, message retraction, and allows up to 100 attachments. The 3.1 release also includes a launching feature for the transfer of documents or graphics into word processing or graphics editing programs. The scheduler program schedules events, meetings, and office resources over the system. WordPerfect Office for PC LANs and WordPerfect Connections, which allows for LAN-to-LAN communication, are now bundled together. WordPerfect Office now includes E-mail, Calendaring/Scheduling, and several desktop utility programs as well as: Remote Mail, improved Directory Services for LAN Systems Administration, out-bound FAX support, a platform bridge for connections to Macintosh, UNIX, VMS, and Data General platforms, and an improved Asynchronous bridge. The license gives users the right to use the included Connections software on any on-site PC dedicated to connections activities including async, gateway, and multi-LAN connections. With the additional contents, the suggested retail price of a five user license PC LAN package will remain the same at $495.US/$595.CN. Additional license-only packages will also be available in quantities of 1, 20, and 100 for $75.US/$89.CN, $1295.US/$1,555.CN, and $5,995.US/$7,195.CN respectively. The company said its new license-only prices will accommodate large account purchasing. The step to version 3.1 is an important one according to David Clare, WPCorp director of development. "WordPerfect Office 3.1 is very important to WPCorp's crossplatform strategy because it creates a bridge between MS DOS, Macintosh, UNIX, VMS, and Data General systems for exchange of electronic mail and scheduling services," said Product Marketing Manager Andrew Ehat said that "WordPerfect Office 3.1 is for use in all organizations that are using or considering PC networks and/or a variety of multi-user platforms and would like to use global mail and scheduling across these platforms." WordPerfect Office is an electronic mail and scheduling package to enhance PC LAN communication. The product also contains several desktop utility programs such as a menuing system, flat-file database, calculator, program and macro editor, and personal calendar. WordPerfect Office has an approximate user base of 400,000. For more information, contact WPCorp Information Services at (801) 225-5000. WordPerfect Corp, 1555 N. Technology Way, Orem, UT 84057 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America On-Line & PC-Link New Product Info Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, | | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. | | All submissions for this service should be addressed to | | BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+