Brainstorm's New OfficeLink for Lotus Notes 2.0

Offers Extended Support for Rich-Test, Conflict Resolution and Full- Text
Search

Brainstorm Adopts Key User Recommendations from More than 350 Organizations
Worldwide

CAMBRIDGE, MASS . -- December 5, 1995 -- In response to record sales and an
overwhelming demand among users for a simple and elegant way to link
Microsoft Office applications with Lotus Notes, Brainstorm Technology,
Inc. today announced version 2.0 of the company's breakthrough product,
OfficeLink for Lotus Notes.

The new software release from Brainstorm, who is the leading provider of
software solutions for integrating groupware technologies, comes less than
six months after OfficeLink's initial launch last spring. Microsoft Office
has 90% marketshare of desktop applications suite, and Lotus Notes is the
leader in the groupware market with over 3.3 million users worldwide.

OfficeLink adds "Open from Notes" and "Save To Notes" options into the
Office application menu bar thus allowing users to seamlessly retrieve and
store Office documents to and from any corporate Lotus Notes database.
With OfficeLink v2.0 users now have the ability to transparently save
Microsoft Word and Microsoft RTF documents directly into Notes native
rich-text format, maintaining all special formatting.

Just as easily, end-users of Microsoft Word can directly convert any
existing Notes rich text information into a Word or RTF document with the
click of a mouse button. With this added capability, users can continue to
work within their favorite desktop applications, either Word or Notes, and
be able to cooperate, share and edit the same documents simultaneously.
OfficeLink implements sophisticated save/conflict resolution features and
provides full support for built- in Notes security.

Another significant enhancement in the new OfficeLink allows for any Word
document stored within Lotus Notes to be full-text searchable. This
feature is essential to organizations that have critical business
information stored in thousands of Office documents, allowing for
efficient and reliable access to this information from a central Notes
repository. All Notes and Office users anywhere within and outside the
organization will be able to easily search, review, edit, and comment on
shared Office documents via Notes and OfficeLink.

OfficeLink sets the standard as the key "alternative" Notes client
interface which is accessible from Microsoft Office applications without
having to run the Lotus Notes client software. OfficeLink v2.0
incorporates a revamped, more intuitive user interface with new pull down
menus, scroll windows, and an automatic Notes document/field rendering
facility. In addition, product performance has been optimized more than
50% in memory and resource utilization.

"The market response to our initial release of OfficeLink has been
tremendous," stated Mitchell C. Liu, Brainstorm co-founder and vice
president of marketing. "The new version of OfficeLink significantly
extends the power of Lotus Notes with a custom front-end to Notes, and
with forthcoming updates we'll be providing support for both Office '95
and Powerpoint. New key features added to OfficeLink 2.0 have been
compiled from over thousands of customer requests, and truly marks the
maturity of the product."

OfficeLink leverages on the strengths of Notes such as its replication and
security features to enable seamless and reliable sharing of information
throughout the company as well as by suppliers and customers around the
globe. This ability to easily access Office documents outside an
organization allows mobile users, such as field sales representatives, to
merge and distribute sales spreadsheets, forecasts and other data created
in Excel and Word from their portable computers directly to all other
networked users within the corporation.

OfficeLink v2.0 will run in Windows 3.X, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT
and Windows '95 operating systems. Support for Office '95 and Notes 4.0 is
slated for early in the first quarter of 1996. Support for Microsoft
PowerPoint is also forthcoming based on availability of the API.

The suggested retail price for Brainstorm's OfficeLink is $99.00 per
client. Server pricing begins at $199 with volume discounts available for
site licenses. The product, which is currently available, is sold directly
from Brainstorm as well as through Egghead Software Corporate sales and
the Brainstorm Buyers Guide.

Founded in 1993, Brainstorm Technologies, Inc., is a pioneer in the
development of Lotus Notes applications and development tools. The company
provides both off-the-shelf products and a range of consulting services
designed to help companies gain access and integrate data from existing
corporate databases into Lotus Notes. The company's award-winning
products, VB/Link for Lotus Notes, DataLink for Lotus Notes and
ServerAdmin Plus are currently used by more than 20 percent of the
organizations that use Lotus Notes.
 
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