Beehive Software Wins a Product Development Foot Race with Microsoft, Beehive is the First to Integrate Large File Transfer Transparently with Email.

This week, Beehive Software has released their version 4.0 BeeMail extension, for Windows and Macintosh, which now allows ANY email user to securely send file attachments of ANY size, transparently along with their email message.

Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) January 9, 2005 -- In the November 24th, 2003 issue of Newsweek magazine, Bill Gates announced in an interview 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 - two years ahead of Microsoft!

This week, Beehive Software has released their version 4.0 BeeMail extension, for Windows and Macintosh, which now allows ANY email user to securely send file attachments of ANY size, transparently along with their email message. The key words - "securely", "any size" and "transparently" are the requirements that have made this product development nontrivial. Most people consider file transfer old hat but in fact, the most common file transfer methods such as ftp and http are not secure, do not have universal addressing schemes, have file limits, and are NOT simple and transparent to use.

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. BeeMail separates the file attachments from the email body and substitutes a URL. BeeMail sends the files to a secure file transfer server and compresses the files On-the-Fly" to speed transfer. The recipient clicks on the URL in the message and the files are downloaded.

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), and the FIRST to develop file transfer SMTP proxy agents (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!

The Beehive BeeMail solution is available in single user, hosted multi-user and stand-alone appliance versions. Single user licenses are available for $49.95, hosted multi-user subscriptions are $995 and stand-alone appliances are available for $3995.

Beehive (including its private label versions) is widely installed in the printing, prepress, banking, medical imaging, insurance, manufacturing and newspaper industries with over 1500 site licenses and over 100,000 end users.

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