Messaging Client Software Brick

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Description

Messaging client software includes applications that run on workstations and enable peer-to-peer, asynchronous communications.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
Electronic Mail (UNIX/Linux) Eudora Microsoft Outlook Program for Internet News and Email (UNIX/Linux)	Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Outlook Web Access Web Browser High-End Calendaring Add-Ins
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
Meeting Maker Microsoft Exchange Client Novell GroupWise (NLM) Wylbur	Fetch Mail (POP Client)
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Eudora Fetch Mail (POP Client) Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Exchange Client Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook Web Access Meeting Maker Novell GroupWise (NLM) UNIX/Linux (Pine, Elm, etc.) Wylbur	OS X Mail

NIH will be standardizing the back office servers during the consolidation process.
Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.