Omtool’s Fax Sr. Supports Commetrex’s PowerFax M-Series

For Immediate Release

San Diego, CA, August 2, 1999 - Omtool, Ltd. (Salem, NH) and Commetrex Corporation (Norcross, GA) announced today at Fax Directions/Messaging World '99 that the beta release of PowerFax M-Series support in Fax Sr. is scheduled for August and a production release will be available by year-end.

"We are extremely pleased to see PowerFax M-Series support in Fax Sr.", said Martin Lippman, Commetrex’s VP, marketing. "According to IDC, Fax Sr. is the number-one fax server in the growing Windows NT market. We see a great match between Omtool’s strong support for enterprise-class solutions and the density and scalability of the M-Series, which offers an affordable single-slot E1/T1 solution."

The PowerFax M-Series boards offer world-class performance at prices substantially less than the industry norm. The M-4, with four loop-start interfaces is $2,100, the M-8 is $3,500, the M-T1 24-port integrated T1 board is $9,500 and the M-E1 30-port integrated E1 board is $10,400. DID interfaces are optionally available on the M-4 and M-8. Fax Sr. can take advantage of the DID option to automatically route incoming faxes to a particular user’s desktop.

"We are pleased to add Commetrex to our list of multi-line fax resource partners.", said Thaddeus Bouchard, Vice President of Product Marketing at Omtool. "The M-Series offers our customers a combination of solid performance, density, and affordability, as well as a great install package, that should make installation a snap."

Omtool, Ltd.
Omtool, headquartered in Salem, NH. (and with offices in the UK, France, and Germany), designs, develops, markets, and supports open, client/server software, delivering solutions that automate and integrate communication throughout the enterprise. Omtool’s IP Fax Server, IP Fax Satellite, Fax Sr. Enterprise, Fax Sr. Express, LegalFax, and FAX/400 product families provide users with an extensive, flexible feature set for transmitting and receiving faxes, and improve an organization’s management of its fax communications processes by providing a suite of utility and control functions.

Commetrex Corporation
Commetrex Corporation is a rapidly growing company of communications and information-processing professionals that combine the skills of DSP engineering and computer-system design to provide innovative high-value communications products.

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