IBM/Lotus Announce Strategy for Integrated Calendaring and Scheduling
Across and Beyond the Enterprise

Lotus to Provide Calendaring and Scheduling Integration Across Lotus Notes,
Organizer and IBM OfficeVision; Supports the Internet

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 22, 1996 -- IBM and Lotus Development Corp. today
unveiled a comprehensive calendaring and scheduling (C&S) strategy, based
on Lotus Notes Release 4 and the award-winning Lotus Organizer user
interface, that will include fully-functional C&S support in all Notes
Release 4 clients -Notes Mail, Notes Desktop and full Notes. Lotus also
will provide complete connectivity and interoperability between Notes and
Organizer calendars, and IBM OfficeVision calendars, to enable C&S users
to confirm and schedule group meetings across the enterprise. Scheduling
between Organizer and Notes users across the Internet will be provided
through the SMTP/MIME Gateway for Notes Release 4.

"Our calendaring and scheduling strategy is to offer customers a choice of
clients while enabling them to leverage their messaging infrastructure
across enterprise and inter-enterprise networks," said Michael D. Zisman,
executive vice president and CEO, Lotus Development Corp. "The combination
of using Organizer's award-winning UI with a back-end integration plan
that supports Notes, cc:Mail, and real- time connectivity to IBM
OfficeVision calendars, delivers to millions of users a comprehensive
calendaring and scheduling solution unmatched in the industry."

Users Choose the Client

Users will have a choice of clients, selecting any Notes client that
supports OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh PowerPC
and 68K, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris; or an Organizer client that
supports Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh System 7.5 or OS/2 Warp. These
clients will be available in the second half of 1996. Calendaring and
scheduling functionality in Notes clients will be identical with core C&S
functionality in Organizer 2.1. The C&S data will be stored inside the
user's mail database and will appear as a calendar folder as part of the
user's Notes mail database. This will provide Notes and Organizer clients
with a common look and feel for daily, weekly and monthly calendar views,
as well as common terminology for creating appointments or scheduling
meetings.

In the Notes environment, Notes and Organizer clients will be fully
interoperable through the Notes data store and common scheduling services,
providing users and administrators with the benefits of Notes Release 4's
scalability, security and mobile enhancements. All Lotus C&S users receive
the benefits of scheduling meetings, synchronizing their calendars or
making appointments remotely using the Notes client, thus eliminating the
need for a real-time connection. When the user replicates his or her Notes
client with the Notes server, the other C&S users are automatically
notified about the meetings.

"The Lotus calendaring and scheduling strategy is a key component of how
the company is redefining the value proposition of messaging," said Bob
Flanagan, director of Inter/Enterprise Applications Research, The Yankee
Group. "Lotus continues to raise the bar in messaging by adding
calendaring and scheduling to Notes, plus integrating C&S with cc:Mail and
OfficeVision as well as supporting the Internet."

Support for IBM OfficeVision

For host connectivity, Lotus will deliver the Lotus OfficeVision (OV)
Calendar Connector which will give users bi-directional access to calendar
and scheduling information between Notes and IBM OfficeVision, supporting
OV/VM, OV/MVS and OV/400. The Lotus OfficeVision Calendar Connector will
be available in the second half of 1996 on Notes servers supporting
Windows NT, OS/2 Warp and IBM AIX.

"With the Lotus OV Calendar Connector, customers can leverage Lotus'
strength in desktop collaboration and IBM's expertise in host and
client/server calendaring to bring together their OfficeVision and LAN
environments," said Steve Mills, General Manager, IBM Software Solutions
Division. "This will give organizations the ability to effectively manage
people, time and resources across the enterprise."

cc:Mail Customers to Receive Full-featured C&S Solution

Lotus will also provide a full-featured C&S client for cc:Mail users,
taking advantage of the next generation cc:Mail DB8 message store as the
back-end database for C&S data. In addition to the integration of
Organizer with the cc:Mail client and the cc:Mail DB8 message store,
cc:Mail users will also have C&S interoperability with Notes through the
use of the cc:Mail Connector running on the Lotus CommServer.

Schedule Meetings over the Internet

Lotus' advanced, messaging-based calendaring and scheduling architecture
will allow connectivity and integration across enterprise and inter-
enterprise networks. Notes and Organizer users will be able to schedule
meetings with their colleagues, vendors, customers and suppliers, across
the Internet via the SMTP/MIME Gateway, a high-fidelity Notes messaging
gateway being designed for the Lotus CommServer.

How it Works

The IBM/Lotus calendaring and scheduling solution seamlessly integrates
Notes, cc:Mail and OfficeVision environments. If users want to see the
free and busy timeslots available on other users' calendars, even for
colleagues situated halfway around the world, they simply point and click.
A scheduling dialog box prompts users for the meeting attendees'
names--the very same names by which those users are identified in the
Notes Name & Address Book or cc:Mail directories. From the data store, to
the directory, to the client, the entire automated scheduling process is
integrated.

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 Organizer is the industry's leading personal and group scheduler.
Since Organizer's introduction in 1992, the product has received more than
30 awards for its usability and calendaring and scheduling functionality.
Most recently, Organizer has won PC Magazine's Network Edition Editors'
Choice award for group scheduling; Computer Shopper's "Tenth Annual Best
Buy of 1995" award;and PC World's "Best Buy" award. 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.

All prices and terms are for the U.S. only. Notes prices are estimated
retail prices for volume purchases through Lotus' Passport Program. Lotus,
Lotus Notes, Lotus cc:Mail and Lotus Organizer are registered trademarks
of Lotus Development Corporation. Notes, cc:Mail and Organizer are
trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. All other company names and
products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.

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