Banyan to ship 'net directory, Web-savvy E-mail client. (Banyan Systems' BeyondMail Personal Internet Edition Internet search software, Switchboard Web-based directory service)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)

Banyan Systems Inc. next week will announce a new intelligent E-mail client that uses agents to automatically browse the World Wide Web and retrieve selected pages in native Hypertext Markup Language format.

The company's newly formed Internet division, Coordinate.com, will also next week launch Switchboard, a Web-based directory service for locating individual and business contact information. (See "Novell, Banyan plan Internet directories," Dec. 18, 1995, page 12.)

With BeyondMail Personal Internet Edition, users receive Web pages in their inboxes, enabling them to browse information in either connected or disconnected mode.

Analysts said Banyan's …