Touch Communications Inc, Campbell, California says that its new Worldtalk is an electronic messaging architecture that interconnects local network mail systems with each other and with networks to the X400 network: the Worldtalk/400 family includes a required core messaging server that runs under Unix and messaging gateways for most of today’s popular local network mail packages, and the first seven members are gateways to the mian Macintosh-based mail packages, Microsoft Mail, Quick Mail from CE Software and the new InBox Plus package from TOPS, gateways to the main MS-DOS mail packages, cc:Mail’s namesake product, Action Technologies’ MHS product and SMTP and UUCP messaging systems for TCP/IP users; the system is available as software only or as an integrated turn-key system including the required Intel 80386 AT bus machine, Interactive Systems’ 386/ix 2.0.2 Unix, an intelligent X25 network adaptor and an 802.3 Ethernet adaptor; out now, the software costs $8,000 plus $2,000 for each local network messaging gateway; prices for complete turn-key prices start at $25,000.
