Integrating legacy e-mail with Client-Server
Protective Life Insurance, based in Birmingham Alabama, provides financial
security though life and health insurance and investment products to individuals
and companies throughout the USA.
At its in data center in Birmingham, Protective runs IBM's OfficeVision/MVS
for its mainframe e-mail system with some 300 users. There is a gradual migration
of these users from fixed function terminals to OS/2 or Windows based PC's
running either Lotus Notes or cc:Mail for electronic messaging. To maintain
communications between these groups, a requirement to connect the mainframe
e-mail with the emerging LAN systems soon became a priority.
Protective turned to
OfficePath/SNADS,
in conjunction with IBM's LAN Gateway/2, to provide the interface between
the two environments.
Today, Protective has integrated three Notes servers supporting 300 users
and two cc:Mail servers supporting 80 users with the mainframe. In addition,
Protective has established links to the outside world via the Advantis IBMMail
system and via OV/Fax for sending faxes directly from e-mail.
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