LOTUS ANNOUNCES LOTUS NOTES PUBLIC NETWORKS RELEASE 4

PROVIDES SCALABILITY, RELIABILITY AND ADMINISTRATION ENHANCEMENTS FOR
PUBLIC CARRIER NETWORKS

BELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS AND WORLDCOM TO OFFER LOTUS NOTES PUBLIC NETWORKS
SERVICES

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 22, 1996 -- Lotus Development Corp. today announced
Lotus Notes Public Networks Release 4 (LNPN R4), a version of Lotus Notes
Release 4 designed to meet the scalability, reliability and administration
requirements of public telecommunications carrier networks. Lotus also
announced that Bell Global Solutions and WorldCom will offer LNPN R4 as a
strategic platform for networked business applications on their data
services networks.

With Lotus Notes Public Network services, customers can deploy Notes
applications quickly and easily, taking advantage of the scalability and
reliability of the public carrier's Notes network. Customers realize the
benefit of reduced cost of ownership in using Lotus Notes Public Networks
through the carrier's management of the Notes wide area network
infrastructure and applications hosting environment. Lotus Notes Public
Networks services also provide security, billing, access options and
customer support services to enable customers to conduct work
electronically with their customers, partners and suppliers.

"This new release provides carriers with the tools and infrastructure they
need to create a robust public data networking service for business
process applications," said Larry Moore, Lotus' senior vice president,
Interenterprise Computing and Emerging Products Group. "As a result of
these enhancements, our Notes Public Network partners around the world
will be able to offer customers new, cost- effective, scalable services
that leverage the new features of Notes Release 4, including unmatched
Internet integration."

LNPN R4 provides additional features for carriers, including clustered and
partitioned servers, which allow the carriers to scale and configure their
networks to meet the needs of their customers. LNPN R4 also provides
billing and data collection enhancements to give carriers access to the
data necessary to support third-party billing as well as administer their
networks.

Clustered servers, which are a group of interconnected servers, allow the
carriers to gradually increase the capability of their networks by easily
adding servers to the cluster as workload and user demand increase.
Clustered servers also increase the number of concurrent users that can
access a common set of Notes databases by up to 500 percent over a Lotus
Notes Release 4 server, enabling carriers to meet larger application
hosting needs.

Clustered servers enhance the quality of service offered by a Notes Public
Network carrier by ensuring high availability of Notes databases. For
example, if a server goes down, users are automatically switched to
another server hosting a copy of their database. The switching is
transparent to users, who can continue to work without interruption.

Partitioned servers enable one physical server to support up to six
customers, hosting one application each. Each application on a partitioned
server has the same level of security and reliability as if hosted on a
standalone server. Because there are fewer physical servers, carriers can
reduce their overall administration requirements while offering
cost-efficient hosting to customers with small to medium- size
applications.

"With Lotus Notes Public Networks Release 4, AT&T Network Notes can offer
cost-effective application hosting to the largest or smallest of
applications," said Gary Hickox, New Business Development vice president -
Collaboration, Imaging and Integrated Messaging, AT&T. "The enhancements
in LNPN R4 will further expand AT&T Network Notes' capabilities as a
reliable, scalable applications hosting environment while also allowing us
to make full and efficient use of our system resources."

LNPN R4 data collection enhancements provide valuable system utilization
information, allowing carriers to provide more detailed billing options to
their customers. The LNPN R4 data collection process tracks, records and
stores details of specified Notes activities including session,
replication, document, mail and database activities. Carriers can use this
information to plan their network resources and optimize their server
resources. For example, the information may indicate that a hosted
application reaches maximum usage on Mondays, allowing the carrier to plan
server capacity accordingly.The information also facilitates a carrier's
ability to offer third-party billing and enables customers to build
tailored billing or monitoring applications.

BELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS AND WORLDCOM TO OFFER LOTUS NOTES PUBLIC NETWORK
SERVICES; BT'S SERVICE NEARS COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY

Lotus also announced that Bell Global Solutions, a division of Bell Sygma,
Inc., a subsidiary of Bell Canada and WorldCom will offer Lotus Notes
Public Network services. Bell Global Solutions will offer LNPN R4 on its
TCP/IP network, Canada's largest managed public network. Bell Global
Solutions will begin work with key customers in the second quarter of
1996, with broader availability of the service expected next year.

WorldCom facilitates wide-area Lotus Notes communications with a variety of
services including application hosting, electronic messaging, news
services and Internet publishing. WorldCom currently meets the
communications needs of more than 1,500 corporations with access points in
more than 100 countries around the world.

BT has announced that it will make its Lotus Notes Public Networks service,
BT Network for Lotus Notes, available throughout Europe in early February.
The network will offer two services, application sharing and extended
workforce. Application sharing is designed to enable customers to extend
their enterprises. The extended workforce service connects remote users so
they can route mail, exchange information and perform their day-to-day
business interactions as a virtual corporation, regardless of time zone or
geographic location.

AVAILABILITY AND PLATFORMS FOR LNPN R4

LNPN R4 will ship in early February. LNPN R4 will be available initially on
the Windows NT server platform. LNPN R4 is compatible with clients of
Notes R2.X, R3.X and R4.X. A Lotus Notes Release 4 client is required to
access the features of Lotus Notes Release 4. Lotus Notes is the leading
client-server platform for developing and deploying strategic groupware
applications that help organizations communicate, collaborate and
coordinate strategic business processes within and beyond their
organizational boundaries to achieve improved business results. More than
8,000 companies and 4.5 million people use Notes to improve key business
processes such as customer service, sales and account management, and
product development. Lotus Notes supports all major operating systems
including IBM OS/2 Warp, Apple Mac OS, UNIX platforms including IBM AIX,
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and SCO OpenServer, and Microsoft Windows and Windows
NT. Notes is also available as a NetWare loadable module for the Novell
environment.

Lotus Development Corp., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., offers high quality
software products and support services that reflect the company's unique
understanding of the new ways in which individuals and businesses must
work together to achieve success. Lotus' innovative approach is evident in
a new class of applications that allows information to be accessed and
communicated in ways never before possible, both within and beyond
organizational boundaries. The company also provides numerous support
services, both from its consulting division and its award-winning 24-hour
support center.

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