IBM Launches New Version of Industry's Leading Messaging and Collaboration Platform, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - 01 Oct 2002: IBM Corporation today announced the immediate availability of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6, a family of software products designed to help drive down costs associated with messaging and collaboration. Lotus Notes and Domino 6 includes more than a thousand new and enhanced features that can help improve productivity and reduce overall cost of ownership.

New cost-management features and functions in Lotus Notes and Domino 6 include innovative technology that helps consolidate server hardware, reduces disk space use and minimizes network traffic. New policy-based administration and client-upgrade automation tools can help lower administration costs, while improved inbox management and advanced calendar and scheduling functionality can help save time and increase end-user productivity. Lotus Notes and Domino 6 also includes new information control features like improved mail archiving, mail journaling and new spam control, to help increase worker productivity and conserve IT resources.

In addition, integration with existing IT solutions can help Lotus Notes and Domino 6 customers protect their current IT investment and gives Lotus Software an advantage over competitive offerings. Closer alignment with IBM's entire software portfolio, as well as greater support for Microsoft's Active Directory, will allow customers to blend Notes and Domino 6 into their current infrastructure to help maximize business benefits. In addition, support for open standards initiatives such as J2EE, Linux and XML can give customers the security and flexibility they need to make Notes and Domino 6 part of their long-term IT solution.

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 incorporates feedback from thousands of business partners and customers, ranging from small businesses to Global 2000 organizations, that have been part of early deployment and beta programs that have run for more than a year.

"Since we have been part of the Lotus Notes and Domino 6 beta program, the team from IBM and Lotus have been very open to listening to our suggestions and using our feedback to enhance the new version of this software," said Vince Morrotti, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DaimlerChrysler AG. "As we ramp up for our rollout of Lotus Notes and Domino 6 within our company, we feel it will meet our business needs and help us leverage our existing technology investments into the future."

"Lotus is continuing to add innovative technologies to keep themselves on the leading edge. We're extremely pleased with the hundreds of new enhancements, as well as the overall quality," says Matthew Henry, Web Team Leader at KEMET, Inc., a leading supplier of electronic components and an early deployment customer of Lotus Notes and Domino 6. "They continue to make the best product out there."

IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) teams have also been engaged with major customers as part of the Lotus Notes and Domino 6 early deployment program. Leveraging the technical expertise available through ISSL directly, or teaming with IBM Global Services and other services providers, can help customers minimize risk and maximize the return on their IBM Investment. New packages and programs from ISSL have been designed expressly for Lotus Notes and Domino 6 to help customers and business partners get more value from their Lotus investment.

The entire line of Lotus Notes and Domino 6 products continue IBM's tradition of delivering secure and advanced functionality for end-users, administrators and application developers. Key enhancements to Lotus Notes and Domino 6 include:

Productivity enhancements for end users:

• Simplified user interface and virtual elimination of end user configuration requirements.

• Increased inbox and information management productivity with new attachment handling options, replication improvements, color-coded views and drag-and-drop capabilities, while on or offline.

• Improved ease of use for Microsoft Office users through toolbars, new templates and dialog boxes.

• Unmatched calendaring functionality with features that include Executive Calendar management, multiple time zone support and online e-meeting technology.

• Improved mobility and wireless access via supported PDAs, pagers and WAP-enabled mobile phones.

Cost effectiveness for administrators:

• Heightened reliability, scalability, performance and security through improved transaction logging, clustering, network compression, replication and increased support of security standards.

• Powerful tools that simplify IT management tasks such as Smart upgrade for centrally updating your client environment and policy-based management for creating and managing end user settings and configurations such as user registration, password and security controls and e-mail archiving.

• Centrally managed mail archiving, journaling and spam control to help optimize IT resource utilization and meet organizational policies.

• Ease of integration with existing supported infrastructure through tighter alignment with other IBM and Lotus software technologies, including Sametime, DB2, WebSphere and Tivoli software.

Power and flexibility for application developers:

• Code checkout and code sharing technologies for team development.

• Reduced time required to build and deploy multi-platform, mission critical applications.

• Ability to build applications that are open, secure, and Web-enabled with multi-platform support and workflow, all with easy-to-upgrade capabilities.

• Support for industry standards to leverage developer skills, including J2EE and XML.

• Increased ability to create business applications for a Web services environment.

• Real-time data access to relational databases and ERP systems through Lotus Enterprise Integrator 6.

Pricing and Availability
The Lotus Notes and Domino 6 product family, which includes Lotus Notes and Domino 6, Lotus Domino Designer 6, Lotus iNotes Web Access 6, Lotus iNotes Access 6 for Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Enterprise Integrator 6 and Domino Everyplace, is now generally available for download. The Domino Mail Server will be available at $894* per server, Domino Application Server are available at $2,308* per server, respectively, and will require an iNotes or Notes client license for users. The Domino Utility Server is available at $11,750* per CPU and does not require iNotes or Notes client license for users. Lotus Notes and iNotes client licenses for authenticated users are available starting at $70.08* per client and $48.65* per client, respectively. Lotus Domino Designer 6 is available at $586* per developer.

* Passport Advantage Volume License Program - Level A Suggested Volume Price for License with Software Maintenance until 1st Anniversary.

Lotus Domino 6 is currently available for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000; IBM iSeries (formerly AS/400®), V5R1 and later; IBM zSeries (formerly S/390), z/OS V1R2 and later; IBM AIX Version 4.3.3x and 5.1; Sun Solaris 2.8/SPARC; and Linux (Intel) - Red Hat 7.2, SuSE 8.0 server platforms. Lotus Notes is available for Windows 32-bit operating systems and Macintosh clients, including Mac OS 9 and OS X. For more information on the Lotus Notes and Domino 6 product family, please visit the Lotus Web site at http://www.lotus.com/domino6.

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