Using Connect-ME to integrate legacy with Microsoft Exchange

Fina Oil and Chemical is a large multi-national petrochemical company with its North American headquarters based in Dallas, Texas.

In the US, Fina's e-mail environment has been based predominantly around IBM's mainframe OfficeVision/MVS system as well as some DEC All-In-One and Microsoft Mail LANs. As part of the gradual move to client-server systems, Fina has selected Microsoft's Exchange Server product as its future client-server based electronic messaging platform.

In order to support an orderly migration of the users from the mainframe as well as to provide co-existance with the other messaging platforms in the network, Fina has selected the Connect-ME SNADS Connector to link between the OfficeVision/MVS and Microsoft Exchange worlds. Connect-ME is a Windows NT-based connector that provides seamless, bi-directional message interchange between Microsoft Exchange Server and SNADS-based systems.

Comments Tim Slattery, Fina's Supervisor of Business Systems Support, "Connect-ME has allowed our initial group to remain connected to the real world without actually impacting how Officevision people send their messages. It has worked well for us to be able to do our testing in Exchange while staying in touch with the rest of the corporation".