P R E S S R E L E A S E
Oct. 6, 2004
In an issue of Newsweek magazine, Bill Gates announced that a major focus of Microsoft's future Operating System, code named Longhorn, was to reduce the fragmentation of the user experience. Gates noted, "the way you deal with your files is different than the way you deal with your email". Bill gave "sometime in 2006" as the time frame for Microsoft solving this problem. At about the same time that Bill was making his advance announcement, a small company 90 miles up the road in Bellingham, WA was releasing a product -BeeMail, that accomplishes many of Bill's goals - tyears ahead of Microsoft!
In 2003, Beehive Software released the BeeMail Email client extensions, for Windows and Macintosh, which allow ANY email user to securely send file attachments of ANY size, transparently along with their email message. Now in 2004, Beehive Software releases the BeeMail Secure File Attachment Gateway which no longer requires the individual email user to install any client software or add-ons. The BeeMail product is now truely "transparent" in every way. Administrators have long complained that firewall, security and email extension products that require end user installation create some of the most difficult support problems. Not only does the BeeMail gateway eliminate the need for an add-on to be installed at the cliets desktop but Beemail also allows the administrator to control the outbound email boundary services for all the users on his network from a single console. For more information on the BeeMail Outbound Email Boundary Service Gateways go to:
>>BeeMail Outbound Email Boundary Service Gateways
How does BeeMail Work?
BeeMail parses email on the fly separating the file attachments from the email body and substituting a URL if the file size exceeds the threshold designated by the administrator. If the files have been substituted by a URL, BeeMail sends the original files to the BeeMail https-secure file transfer server. The intended recipient is sent a notification message. The recipient clicks on the URL in the notification message and the files can be accessed and downloaded as required by the user.
The BeeMail Secure Message Gateway is a software only solution that can run on your Intel hardware of choice. The BeeMail Message Gateway is available for $3995 and includes licensing for 200 Secure message Senders and an unlimited number of Secure message Recipients. The BeeMail Secure Message Gateway also includes the BeeMail Large File Attachment Gateway functionality. Users can send file of any size through the gateway.
BeeMail supports all the most common email packages for Windows and Macintosh, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Notes and any other product that uses SMTP as the sending protocol.
Beehive - A long History of Innovation:
The BeeMail Email extension is built on top of a series of previous Beehive Software product releases. Beehive has tackled all of the foundation problems that had to be mastered before email could attach large files. Beehive Software was the FIRST to develop a file transfer product using "On-the-Fly" streaming file compression (1998), the FIRST to use Universal Email Addressing for File Transfer (1999), the FIRST to use https as a secure large file transfer protocol (2000), the FIRST to implement file transfer “latency tolerance” over commodity Internet bandwidth (2002), the FIRST to develop file transfer SMTP proxy agents (2003) and the FIRST to develop a totally transparent Outbound Email Boundary Services Gateway (2004). It's no wonder that Microsoft needs another two years to finish their release; Beehive has been working on aspects of this product line sine 1997!
Beehive (including its private label versions) is the most widely installed file transfer software in the printing, prepress and newspaper industries with over 1500 site licenses and 100,000 end users.